Jacob K. White

Jacob K. White is the Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[5] White was a significant early contributor to the development of Spectre and SpectreRF.

White received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, working on waveform relaxation[6] under advising professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.

[7] White was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008 "for contributions to simulation tools for RF circuits, electrical interconnects, and micro machined devices.

"[8] In 2022 he, along with Ricardo Telichevesky and Ken Kundert, was awarded the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation for their paper Efficient steady-state analysis based on matrix-free Krylov-subspace methods.