Robert Campbell Aitken


Robert Campbell Aitken is a Canadian electrical engineer. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 "for contributions to testing and diagnosis of integrated circuits." He has applied for forty-eight patents since 2007, mostly in conjunction with other ARM inventors.

Education and career

Aitken holds Ph.D. from McGill University. He joined the technical staff at Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, in 2004. He later moved to ARM, a British multinational semiconductor and software designer company. In 2018, Aitken was appointed as the 56th Design Automation Conference General Chair.