Edoardo Charbon

Expertise Ultra High-Speed and 3D Optical SensorsLIDAR, FLIM, PET, FCS, NIROTCyo-CMOS for Quantum ComputingComputer Aided Design for VLSIVirtual Human-Computer Interfaces Edoardo Charbon (SM'00 F'17) received the Elektrotechnik Diploma from ETH Zurich, the M.S. from the University of California at San Diego, and the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively, all in electrical engineering and EECS. He has consulted with numerous organizations, including Bosch, X-Fab, Texas Instruments, Maxim, Sony, Agilent, and the Carlyle Group. He was with Cadence Design Systems from 1995 to 2000, where he was the architect of the company's initiative on information hiding for intellectual property protection. In 2000, he joined Canesta Inc., as the Chief Architect, where he led the development of wireless 3-D CMOS image sensors. Since 2002 he has been a member of the faculty of EPFL, where is a full professor since 2015. From 2008 to 2016 he was full professor and chair at the Delft University of Technology, where he spearheaded the university's effort on cryogenic electronics and cryo-CMOS for quantum computing, as part of QuTech.He has been the driving force behind the creation of deep-submicron CMOS SPAD technology, which is mass-produced since 2015 and is present in smartphones, telemeters, proximity sensors, and medical diagnostics tools.His interests span from 3-D vision, LiDAR, FLIM, FCS, NIROT to super-resolution microscopy, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and cryo-CMOS circuits and systems for quantum computing. He has authored or co-authored over 500 papers and two books, and he holds 31 patents. Dr. Charbon is the recipient of the 2023 IISS Pioneering Achievement Award, he is a distinguished visiting scholar of the W. M. Keck Institute for Space at Caltech, a fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society, and a fellow of the IEEE and Optica.OTHER PUBLICATIONS Available at http://aqua.epfl.ch/publications.html ResearchCurrent Research Fields SPAD imagingUltra-fast imagingQuantum imagingQuantum computingCMOS designCryo-CMOS design Teaching & PhD PhD Students Kodai Kaneyasu, Yating Zou, Suraj Bhimrao Gaikwad, Vladimir Pesic, Won Yong Ha, Samuele Bisi, Batuhan Keskin, Cyril Alexis De Vaucleroy, Prabhleen Singh, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Alexandre Germain Philippe Domenech, Aryan Pandey Past EPFL PhD Students Cristiano Niclass, Huan Du, Marek Gersbach, Ties Jan Henderikus Kluter, Claudio Favi, Mahdi Aminian, Juan Mata Pavia, Samuel Burri, Scott Lindner, Kazuhiro Morimoto, Andrea Ruffino, Preethi Padmanabhan, Arin Can Ülkü, Francesco Gramuglia, Fulvio Martinelli, Andrei Ardelean, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Jiuxuan Zhao, Simone Frasca, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Francesco Piro, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca, Jad Benserhir, Hung-Chi Han, Ming-Lo Wu, Tommaso Milanese, Chufan Zhou, Paul Mos, Baris Can Efe, Chang Liu, Yang Lin Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Yigit Halil Andac Courses Introduction to quantum science and technology QUANT-400 A broad view of the diverse aspects of the field is provided: quantum physics, communication, quantum computation, simulation of physical systems, physics of qubit platforms, hardware technologies. Students will grasp the field as a whole and better orient themselves on specialized topics. Metrology MICRO-428 The course deals with the concept of measuring in different domains, particularly in the electrical, optical, and microscale domains. The course will end with a perspective on quantum measurements, which could trigger the ultimate revolution in metrology. Metrology practicals MICRO-429 The student will get familiar with the techniques learnt in class (MICRO-428) and will put them to practice with experiments in the laboratory. There will be a practical training for each theme covered in class; the students will also learn good practices during measurements (lab notebook included). Products design & systems engineering MICRO-406 This course will cover all the aspects of product design and system engineering from learning relevant methods to the actual implementation in a hands-on practice of product development. Quantum and nanocomputing MICRO-435 The course teaches non von-Neumann architectures. The first part of the course deals with quantum computing, sensing, and communications. The second focuses on field-coupled and conduction-based nanocomputing, in-memory and molecular computing, cellular automata, and spintronic computing. Past Phd As Director (TU Delft) Mohammad A. Karami, Matthew W. Fishburn, Shingo Mandai, Chockalingam Veerappan, Pengfei Sun, I. Michel Antolovic, Esteban Venialgo, Harald Homulle, Chao Zhang, Augusto Ximenes, Augusto J. Carimatto, Jeroen v. Dijk, Bishnu Patra. Awards Fellow of Optica Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America) 2026 Best Paper Award, IEEE Quantum Week (with Vladimir Pesic) IEEE 2025 IISS Pioneering Achievement Award International Image Sensor Society (IISS) 2023 Best paper award, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) IEEE 2022 Best European Paper, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) IEEE 2021 Predoctoral Achievement Award, IEEE Electron Device Society (Andrea Ruffino) IEEE 2021 Best Paper Award, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) IEEE 2020 Best Paper Award, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) IEEE 2019 Europe's Best Academic Research Team ISE 2019 Best Paper Award, IEEE Nuclear Science Sumposium (NSS) IEEE 2018 Fellow of the IEEE IEEE 2017