Ronald A. Rohrer


Ronald Alan Rohrer is an American computer scientist and electric engineer. He is best known for being the inventor of the SPICE circuit simulator.

Biography

He was born in 1939.

Education

He received the B.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960.
He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

He has served as the Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is currently the Cecil & Ida Green Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Southern Methodist University.

Academic career

He has supervised the doctoral dissertations of three students at UC Berkeley: Edward Butler, Stephen Director and Richard Dowell.

Awards and honours

He has won a number of awards and honours: