Curriculum Vitae: Alexander Taubin

 

8 Saint Mary’s Street

office PHO 335,
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353 1235
taubin@bu.edu

 

CURRENT
POSITION

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Boston University

EDUCATION

Electrotechnical University of St.Petersburg, Russia.

 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

 Feb. 1976

M. Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (with Honors)

 

Thesis Topic: Design of a controller for a multiplex I/O channel

 

 

 

Electrotechnical University of St.Petersburg, Russia.

 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

 Nov. 1981

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

 

Advisor: Prof. Victor  Varshavsky

 

Thesis Topic: Analysis of asynchronous (self-timed) circuits

 

 

RESEARCH

 July 1999 - December  2001  Senior Scientist Theseus Logic, Theseus Research

Methods and algorithms for the automated design (synthesis, optimization and verification) of asynchronous  circuits and devices. Research in architectural design for asynchronous microprocessors. Low power techniques. Usage  of multi-valued logic for asynchronous design. Development of the formal methods for the analysis of delay-insensitivity in combinational circuits (satisfiability based approach)  for verification of large design.

April 1993 – June 1999 Professor The University of Aizu, Japan. Department of Computer Hardware,

Research in asynchronous design, formal methods and algorithms for the automated design of self-timed circuits with reduced time complexity, testing. Theory of Concurrency, Petri nets, Deadlock prevention, CAD systems.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 Senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 Spring 2002 - 2008 “Design of  Asynchronous Circuit and Systems” ENG EC751 - Boston University

ENG EC551 – Fall 2003-2008 Advanced Digital Design Automation with Verilog and FPGA;

ENG EC312 - Fall 2003-2008 Computer Organization.

Fall 1997 graduate course: "Synthesis and optimization of digital circuits. II" The University of Aizu, Japan

Spring 1995, 96, 97, 98 course: "Computer Architecture", The University of Aizu, Japan

Fall 1995 and 96, 98 course: "Logic Design", The University of Aizu, Japan Fall 1995, course: "Computer organization and FPGA design", The University of Aizu, Japan

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Program Co-Chair: Second International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (Async96);

Program Co-Chair: 14th  International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (Async 2008); Tutorial/CAD Booth Chair: International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (CSD'98)

Program Committee Member: ICCAD 2005; International Symposium on Parallel Algorithm/Architecture Synthesis (pAs'95), International Conference on Application of Concurrency in System Design (CSD'98), International Symposiums on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009); Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2007. IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2009.

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