STEPHEN W. DIRECTOR

Education

• Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 1968
• M.S. (Electrical Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 1967
• B.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1965

Employment

• University of Michigan, Dean of the College of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996-
• Carnegie Mellon University, Dean of the College of Engineering, 1991-96
• Carnegie Mellong University, Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1982-91
• SRC-CMU Research Center for Computer-Aided Design, Director, 1982-89
• Carnegie Mellon University, U.S. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1977-96
• University of Florida, Gainesville, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968-77
• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, Visiting Scientist, Mathematical Sciences Department, 1974-75

Honors and Awards

• Aristotle Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation, 1996.
• Outstanding Achievement Award from the IEEE Education Society, 1995.
• Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1989.
• IEEE Fellow, 1978

Research Activities

Computer-aided VLSI design, CAD frameworks, statistical design, numerical analysis, circuit theory, technology enhanced learning

Recent Publications

• "Automatic Workflow Generation," Proceedings of the European Design Automation Conference, pp. 104-109, September 1996 (with V. A. Shepelev).

• "A Linearized Performance Penalty (LPP) Method for Optimization of Parametric Yield and Reliability," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 1557-1568, December 1995 (with K. Krishna).

• "A Novel Methodology for Statistical Parameter Extraction," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, pp. 696-699, November 1995 (with K. Krishna).

• "A Schema-Based Approach to Workflow Management," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 1257-1267, October 1995 (with J. Brockman).

• "A Formal Basis for Design Process Planning and Management," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, pp. 516-521, November 1994 (with M. Jacome).

• "Integrated Circuit Quality Optimization Using Surface Integrals," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1868-1879, December 1993 (with P. Feldmann).

• "Statistical Integrated Circuit Design," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 193-202, March 1993 (with P. Feldmann and K. Krishna).