He is an IEEE Fellow since 2016 for contributions to the development of novel devices for low power applications,[2] and a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), from which he received the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2015.[1]
More than 600 of his articles were, as of 2023, published in scientific journals and conference proceedings.[3] He is co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Xsensio SA, a start-up developing wearable biosensors.[4]
Field of research
As director of the Nanoelectronic Devices group from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Ionescu is focusing on these particular topics:
Beyond CMOS technology & devices
Energy efficient digital and analog computation with steep slope switches: tunnel FETs and phase change switches
Outstanding Achievement Award of Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences in 2015.[1]
Recipient of the IBM Faculty Award in Engineering in 2013.[7]
André Blondel Medal [fr] 2009: for remarkable contributions to the progress in engineering sciences in the domain of electronics from the Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (SEE, Paris), France.[8]
Annual Award of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, 1994, for contributions to SOI technology.[citation needed]