Rate My Professor Patrick Mercier

Patrick P. Mercier is a Professor and Vice Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received a B.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta in 2006 and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Mercier leads the Energy-Efficient Microsystems Lab and serves as co-Director of the Center for Wearable Sensors and Site Director of the Power Management Integration Center. His research focuses on the design of energy-efficient microsystems, including RF circuits, power converters, and sensor interfaces for miniaturized biomedical electronics and ubiquitous computing applications.

Mercier has authored or co-authored over 220 peer-reviewed papers, including 30 papers at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and publications in journals such as Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Electronics, and Nature Communications. He has co-edited books including Ultra-Low-Power Short Range Radios (2015), Power Management Integrated Circuits (2016), and High-Density Electrocortical Neural Interfaces (2019). Among his honors are the NSERC Julie Payette Fellowship (2006), Intel Ph.D. Fellowship (2009), ISSCC Jack Kilby Award (2010), Hellman Fellowship (2014), Beckman Young Investigator Award (2015), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2015), NSF CAREER Award (2018), UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2016), and San Diego County Engineering Council Outstanding Engineer Award (2020). He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, and as a member of technical program committees for ISSCC, CICC, and the VLSI Symposium.