Jaap Haartsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jaap Haartsen

Dutch engineer

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1963

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, inventor, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen (born 13 February 1963, The Hague, Netherlands) is a Dutch electrical engineer, researcher, inventor and entrepreneur best known for his role in producing the specification for Bluetooth. He obtained his master of science degree in 1986 in electrical engineering (with honors) at the Delft University of Technology.
After a brief period at Siemens in The Hague and Philips in Eindhoven, he continued his studies and in 1990 obtained a PhD degree from the Delft University of Technology (also with honors) defending the thesis titled Programmable surface acoustic wave detection in silicon: design of programmable filters.
Since 1991 he worked for Ericsson, first in United States between 1991 and 1993 and later, between 1993 and 1997, in Sweden.
While working for Ericsson Mobile Terminal Division in Lund, he developed Bluetooth specification.
Later, in 1997 he moved to Ericsson division in Emmen.
Between 2000 and 2008 he was a part-time professor at University of Twente, teaching mobile radio communications systems.
Currently, he's a wireless expert at Plantronics.
In 2015, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.