Emrah Acar

Research staff member

Research lab: Austin Research Lab

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001. (GPA: 4.0/4.0) Thesis Title: Linear centric simulation approach for timing analysis.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1997. (GPA: 3.96/4.0)
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1995. (GPA: 3.79/4.0, rank: 3rd out of 60)

Professional Experience
January 2001-present: Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology Group, IBM Austin Research Laboratory,Austin, Texas. Previous positions prior to Dec 2001: Advisory software engineer, professional programmer August 1997-Dec 2000: Research Assistant, Center for Electronic Design Automation, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. March 2000-July 2000: Summer co-op, IBM Austin Research Lab, Austin, Texas. May 1999-August 1999: Summer intern, Compaq Alpha Design Center, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. May 1998-Aug 1998: Summer intern, Intel Strategic Cad Lab, Hillsboro, Oregon. September 1995-June 1997: Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Research Interests
Electronic design automation, circuit simulation, interconnect modeling, timing analysis, delay and noise estimation, model order reduction, power modeling, numerical analysis, statistical methods, control theory.

Coursework
VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout, Circuit Simulation, Between Design and Manufacturing, Numerical Analysis, Control Theory, Linear System Theory, State Space Analysis, Adaptive Signal Processing, Stochastic Processes, Detection and Estimation, Optimization. Last updated 12 Jul 2006