Education
Rutenbar received Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1979 and 1984, respectively.
Rutenbar received Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1979 and 1984, respectively.
He is Abel Bliss Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University) in 1984. At Carnegie Mellon University, his research group developed a wide range of novel Computer-aided Design tools to optimize, synthesize, and perform geometric layout on analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
In 1998, he cofounded Neolinear, Incorporated. to commercialize these tools.
He served as Neolinear’s Chief Scientist until its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in 2004. In 2001, he was the founding director of a large, multi-university research center – the Center for Circuit & Systems Solutions (C2S2) -- funded by the United States semiconductor industry and United States Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to address challenges arising from the end of Moore’s Law scaling.
He served as Director of C2S2 from 2001 to 2009. Also while at Carnegie Mellon University, his In Silico Vox project developed novel hardware platforms for very fast, energy efficient speech recognition.
In 2006, he cofounded the Silicon Vox Corporation to commercialize these ideas.
The company was renamed Voci Technologies in 2010, and it focuses on high-speed solutions for large-scale speech analytics. In 2010, he left Carnegie Mellon University to become Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Illinois, and continuing at Carnegie Mellon University, he led some of the first work to apply data mining and machine learning techniques for electronic design automation.
In 2013, he taught a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Very-large-scale integration Computer-aided Design, to over 17,000 registered participants.
Rutenbar is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the 2001 Aristotle Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation, acknowledging his mentoring and the impact of his students on the United States semiconductor industry. He was awarded the Stephen J. Jatras (East’47) Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering by Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. He was honored with the University of Michigan Alumni Merit Award (Electrical Engineering) in 2002. He was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Chemical Abstracts Service Industrial Pioneer Award in 2007, for “pioneering contributions” to tools for custom circuit synthesis, and their successful commercialization. In 2008, he was inducted into the College of Engineering"s Alumni Hall of Fame at Wayne State University. He was awarded the Abel Bliss Professorship in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010. He is a two-time winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Donald O. Pedersen Best Paper Award, in 2011 and again in 2013, for work on statistical analysis for nanoscale silicon.
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