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welcome to dr eric r fossum s web address website of eric r fossum eric r fossum is best known for the invention of the cmos image sensor camera on a chip used in billions of cameras from smart phones to web cameras to pill cameras and many other applications he is a solid state image sensor device physicist and engineer and his career has included academic and government research and entrepreneurial leadership he is the john h krehbiel sr professor for emerging technologies at the thayer school of engineering at dartmouth in hanover new hampshire where he teaches performs research on image sensors and directs the school s ph d innovation program he also serves as dartmouth s vice provost for entrepreneurship and technology transfer born and raised in connecticut he attended public school in simsbury and spent saturdays at the talcott mountain science center in avon he received his b s in physics and engineering from trinity college in hartford and the ph d in engineering and applied science from yale university in new haven he was a member of columbia university s electrical engineering faculty and then joined the nasa jet propulsion laboratory california institute of technology where he managed jpl s image sensor and focal plane technology research and advanced development while at jpl he invented the cmos camera on a chip technology and led its development and subsequent transfer of the technology to us industry its initial purpose was to miniaturize and improve cameras on nasa interplanetary spacecraft this invention combined the low noise of the charge coupled device ccd with the low power and small form factor of cmos integration by using intra pixel charge transfer and an active pixel architecture making cameras 100x smaller in size and needing far less energy to operate nearly all of the approx seven 7 billion or more cmos cameras made each year use the intra pixel charge transfer invention dr fossum co founded photobit corporation to commercialize the technology and served in several top management roles including chairman and ceo photobit was acquired by micron technology inc he served as chairman and ceo of siimpel corporation developing mems based camera modules with autofocus and shutter functions for cell phones he was then a consultant with samsung electronics working on 3d image sensors and strategic issues for several years before joining dartmouth he co founded gigajot technology inc with his former dartmouth phd students to commercialize the photon counting quanta image sensor qis technology and served as chairman dr fossum received the queen elizabeth prize from hrh prince charles considered by many as the nobel prize of engineering for the creation of digital imaging sensors along with three others he received the u s national medal of technology and innovation nmti for inventing world changing camera on chip technology that has turned billions of phones into cameras and transformed everyday life and then worked to use it in medicine business security entertainment and more in 2026 he received the national academy of engineering nae charles stark draper prize for innovation development and commercialization of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor cmos active pixel image sensor camera on a chip other honors include the national academy of television arts and sciences technical emmy award the nasa exceptional achievement medal the ieee jun ichi nishizawa medal for the invention development and commercialization of the cmos image sensor and the osa and is t edwin h land medal among others he was inducted into the national inventors hall of fame nihf and elected to the nae in 2026 he was listed by forbes as one of america s top 250 innovators 129 an early photobit sensor and camera were on display at the smithsonian national museum of american history s inventing in america exhibit and at the national inventors hall of fame museum at uspto and photobit s pb 100 camera on a chip is in the ieee spectrum chip hall of fame dr fossum has published over 340 technical papers and holds 185 us patents he co founded the international image sensor society iiss was its first president and chaired the iiss board of directors he is a life fellow member of the institute of electrical and electronic engineers ieee a fellow member of optica osa a charter fellow of the national academy of inventors nai an honorary fellow of the royal photographic society and a member of the society of motion picture and television engineers smpte and the american association for the advancement of science aaas he volunteers for the iiss governance advisory committee the nihf selection committee and selection board and the nae council board he has served on the board of trustees of trinity college the board of directors of the national academy of inventors and the board of trustees for the talcott mountain science center as an aaas lemelson invention ambassador on the leadership council of the yale university school of engineering and applied science the peer selection committee and committee on membership for the nae and the fellow selection committee of the nai he also actively supports camp invention and the collegiate inventors competition two programs operated by nihf for relaxation he and his wife enjoy their hobby farm in new hampshire site links curriculum vitae resume publications patents nihf video media interviews some presentations some articles of interest external links profile at dartmouth profile at google scholar thayer school of engineering at dartmouth iiss nai nae nihf trinity yale updated 21 march 2026