Draft:Alex Yakovlev
British computer scientist
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Alex Yakovlev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Я́ковлев) (born 9 April 1956)[2] is a Russian-British computer scientist, hardware engineer, and Professor of Computer System Design in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University[3] in the United Kingdom. He is the head of the university's MicroSystems Research Group,[4] and also leads the Asynchronous Research Group.[5] He is best known for his research into asynchronous circuits,[6][7][8] low-power electronics[9][10] and machine learning.[11][12] He is credited with co-inventing Signal Transition Graphs.[13]
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9 April 1956
- Signal transition graphs or STGs (unified and symbolic)
- Workcraft, toolkit for asynchronous circuit design and analysis
- Dream Fellow of EPSRC (2012-13)
- Fellow of the IET (2015)
- Fellow of the IEEE (2016)
- Fellow of the RA of Eng. (2017)
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| Born | Alexandre Yakovlev 9 April 1956 Leningrad, USSR |
| Alma mater | Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (Diplom-Ingenieur, Candidate of Engineering Sciences) |
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| Thesis | Design and Implementation of Asynchronous Communication Protocols in Systems Interface (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Varshavsky |
| Website | www blogs |
Early Years & Education
Yakovlev was born in Leningrad and attended High School No.38.[14] He studied at Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (Russian: Ленинградский Электротехнический Институт, now Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University), where he was mentored by Professor Victor Varshavsky.[15]
Scientific Career
Yakovlev began his academic career on the faculty of his alma mater, Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, before emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1990. He took a senior lectureship at the University of Glamorgan before moving to Newcastle University in 1991.[14]
In 2000, he was appointed Head of the Microsystems Research Group and founded the Asynchronous Systems Laboratory. His work on Petri nets,[16][17][18] alongside Jordi Cortadella, Michael Kishinevsky, Alex Kondratyev, and Luciano Lavagno, was supported by Intel[19] and joint EPSRC projects with the University of Bristol and King's College London,[15] and contributed to the formation of an asynchronous design team at Intel.[20] His subsequent joint EPSRC projects with the University of Manchester laid the foundation to developing "Workcraft",[21] a post-Petrify asynchronous design toolset widely used in industry, particularly for building reliable, fast and power-efficient analog-mixed signal integrated circuits.
In 2006, Yakovlev submitted a DSc thesis to Newcastle University, "Theory and Practice of Using Models of Concurrency in Hardware Design",[22] a collected account of his accumulated work to that point.
His publication record runs to over 700 research papers and eight monographs.[14][23] He holds six patents covering asynchronous sequential registers,[24] voltage-sensing apparatus,[25] and methods for selecting relative timing constraints in asynchronous circuits.[26][27] By 2025, he has supervised more than seventy PhD students to completion.[28]
In 2012-13, he was named a Dream Fellow by the EPSRC, conducting research on energy-modulated computing.[29] In 2015, Yakovlev was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE),[30] and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). In 2018, he received an IET Achievement Medal for contributions to electronic engineering.[31]