Igor Markov

Honors, Awards and Selected Invited Talks

  • Outstanding Ph.D. student, UCLA, Computer Science Dept., 2000.
  • IBM University Partnership Award, 2001.
  • The IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference fellowship, 2001
  • Invited speaker at the IBM Annual All-site Meeting in Fishkill, NY 2001.
  • Invited speaker at ISQED 2003, ISPD 2003 and IWLS 2003.
  • Distinguished Lecture in Quantum Information Processing, National Institute of Standards (NIST), Radiation Physics Division, January 2004.
  • The 2004 IEEE Circuits and Systems (CaS) Society Donald O. Pederson Award (presented at DAC 2004) for the paper, "Synthesis of Reversible Logic Circuits", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 710-722, June 2003 (with V.V. Shende, A.K. Prasad, and J.P. Hayes).
  • Invited speaker at the Intel research symposium in Haifa, Israel, June 2004.
  • The 2004 ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Outstanding New Faculty Award (presented at ICCAD in November 2004).
  • Best paper award at DATE 2005 for the paper ``Accurate Reliablity Evaluation and Enhancement via Probabilistic Transfer Matrices'' by S. Krishnaswamy, G. F. Viamontes, I. L. Markov and J. P. Hayes.
  • ACM Recognition of Service Award 2005
  • NSF CAREER Award 2005
  • Synplicity Inc., Faculty Award 2005
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Technical Leadership Award (presented at ICCAD 2005)
  • Senior member of IEEE 2005
  • First place at the ISPD 2007 global routing contest
  • Invited talks at EDPS 2007, 2008
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) member of Advisory Board 2005-2006 and Executive Board 2007
  • Invited attendee at the Google Faculty Research Summit in Mountain View, CA July 2007
  • Senior member of ACM 2007
  • A series of 8 invited lectures at Taiwan Universities in September-October 2007: National Taiwan Univ. (EE/EDA, EE/CS and CSIE), National Cheng-Kung Univ. (EE and CS), Sun Yat-sen Univ. (CS), National Chiao Tung Univ. and Tsing-Hua Univ.
  • Invited talk at IEEE Kansai chapter, Kyoto, Japan, October 2007
  • Invited talk at SASIMI 2007 in Sapporo, Japan, October 2007
  • Communications of ACM (CACM) member of editorial board, January 2008
  • EECS Outstanding Achievement Award from the Univ. of Michigan, January 2008
  • Microsoft A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award, March 2008
  • Best paper award at ISPD 2008 for the paper ``Optimizing Non-Monotonic Interconnect using Functional Simulation and Logic Restructuring,'' co-authored with Steve Plaza and Prof. Valeria Bertacco.
  • Invited talk at VTS 2008 in San Diego, CA April 2008
  • Invited mini-course on Physical Design of Integrated Circuits in Bento Goncalves, Brazil, May 2008
  • Invited speaker at the Intel research symposium in Haifa, Israel, June 2008
  • Invited attendee at the Microsoft Faculty Research Summit in Redmond, WA, July 2008
  • First place at the ISPD 2009 clock-network synthesis contest
  • IEEE CEDA Early Career Award 2009 for outstanding contributions to algorithms, methodologies and software for the physical design of integrated circuits, presented at ICCAD 2009
  • Best-paper award nominations at DAC 1997, ASPDAC 1999, ASPDAC 2000, DAC 2003, DAC 2004, ISPD 2006

Also see awards won by my students