Igor Markov Elected Fellow of the IEEE

Prof. Igor Markov has been named an IEEE Fellow, Class of 2013, “for contributions to optimization methods in electronic design automation.”

Since joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2000, Prof. Markov’s research has included computers that make computers (software and hardware), secure hardware design, combinatorial optimization with applications to the design, verification and debugging of integrated circuits, as well as in quantum logic circuits. New algorithmic techniques developed by Prof. Markov have been implemented in open-source projects and industry tools, leading to order-of-magnitude improvements in practice.

Prof. Markov received his M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He has coauthored five books and more than 180 refereed publications, some of which have been honored by best-paper awards. He is the recipient of a DAC Fellowship, an ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty award, an ACM SIGDA Technical Leadership Award, an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Partnership Award, a Synplicity Inc. Faculty award, a Microsoft A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award, and the inaugural IEEE CEDA Early Career Award. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He was also honored by the University of Michigan with the EECS Department Outstanding Achievement Award.

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