Robert Brodersen received his Ph.D. in Engineering from MIT in 1972. From 1972-1976, Brodersen was with the Technical Staff, Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments, Inc. He joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, where he is currently a professor. In addition to teaching, Professor Brodersen is involved in research inclusive of new applications of integrated circuits, focused in areas of low power design and wireless communications.
He has won numerous conference best paper awards. In 1978, Professor Brodersen was named the outstanding engineering alumnus of California State Polytechnic University. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1982. He was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris Libermann award for "Outstanding Contributions to an Emerging Technology," in 1983. And he received Technical Achievement Awards from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986 and in 1991 from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Professor Brodersen was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1988. In September of 1995, he was appointed the first holder of the John R. Whinnery Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.