Alumnus Professor Henderson named an IEEE Fellow 2021.
Published: 17 December 2020
Alumnus Professor Henderson named an IEEE Fellow 2021.
Alumnus, Professor Robert K. Henderson, (BSc 1986 & PhD 1990) has been named an IEEE Fellow 2021 for his contributions to solid-state single photon imaging.
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honour and an important career achievement.
Robert K. Henderson is a Professor of Electronic Imaging in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the University of Glasgow. From 1991, he was a research engineer at CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. In 1996, he was appointed senior VLSI engineer at VLSI Vision Ltd, Edinburgh, UK where he worked on the world’s first single chip video camera.
From 2000, as principal VLSI engineer in STMicroelectronics Imaging Division he developed image sensors for mobile phone applications. He joined University of Edinburgh in 2005, designing the first SPAD image sensors in nanometer CMOS technologies in the MegaFrame and SPADnet EU projects. This research activity led to volume SPAD time-of-flight products in STMicroelectronics FlightSense series, which perform an autofocus-assist function in more than 150 different smartphone models, recently passing the 1 billion-module milestone. He benefits from a long-term research partnership with STMicroelectronics in which he explores medical, scientific and high-speed imaging applications of SPAD technology.
In 2014, he was awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Fellowship. Since 2018, he is an advisor to Sense Photonics in automotive LIDAR and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The University is always delighted to see our world-changing alumni recognised for their achievements, and congratulates Professor Henderson for this outstanding accomplishment.
First published: 17 December 2020
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