Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora is Motorola Solutions Foundation Professor, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology for contributions to power-conditioning and energy-harvesting microchips. He was with Texas Instruments in 1994–2004 and has been with the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1999. He was Visiting Professor at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 2011-2019, Director of the Georgia Tech Analog Consortium in 2001-2004, and Director of the TI Analog Fellowship Program in 2001-2015. He was inducted into Georgia Tech's Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni, named one of "The 100 Most Influential Hispanics" by Hispanic Business, and included in "List of Notable Venezuelan Americans" in Science. He received the National Hispanic in Technology Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Charles E. Perry Visionary Award from Florida International University, IEEE Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE Region 3, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from ECE at Georgia Tech, Orgullo Hispano Award from Robins Air Force Base, IEEE Outstanding Educator Award from IEEE Atlanta Section, Three-Year Patent Award from Texas Instruments, Hispanic Heritage Award from Robins Air Force Base, State of California Commendation Certificate from former Lieutenant Governor Cruz M. Bustamante of California, and IEEE Service Award. His body of work includes 12 books, 8 handbooks, 4 book chapters, 44 patents, over 200 articles, 25 educational videos, over 26 commercial power-chip products released to production, and over 160 keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, and research seminars.
Prof. Rincón-Mora's research is on the design and development of silicon-based microchips and microsystems that harness power from tiny batteries, fuel cells, coils, and ambient sources, like motion, light, heat, and radiation to supply and sustain mobile, portable, and self-sustaining devices for biomedical, consumer, industrial, & military applications.
More information about his background and research is available at rincon-mora.gatech.edu.
- Analog Integrated Circuits (ICs)
- Power-Conditioning ICs
- Energy-Harvesting ICs
- System-on-Chip (SoC) Microelectronics
- System-in-Package (SiP) Microelectronics
- Self-Powered/Self-Sustaining Microchips
- One of Dr. Rincón-Mora's designs was featured on the cover of Electronic Design and picked as one of the "Top 100 Products" of 1998 by EDN.
- Three Year Patent Award Winner for US Patent numbers: 5,491,437; 5,500,625; and 5,519,341, 1999.
- Hispanic in Technology Award, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, 2000.
- Charles E. Perry Visionary Award, Florida International University, 2000.
- Inducted into the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni, Georgia Tech, 2000.
- Voted into the list of The 100 Most Influential Hispanics, Hispanic Business, 2000.
- State of California Commendation Certificate, Lieutenant Governor Cruz M. Bustamante, 2001.
- Orgullo Hispano Award, Robins Air Force Base, September 23, 2003.
- Hispanic Heritage Award, Robins Air Force Base, October 3, 2005.