Andrzej J. Strojwas
Electrical and computer engineering educator, researcher
Born Aug. 20, 1952, Konstantynow Lodzki, Poland; came to U.S., 1979; son of Jan and Irena (Pierzchalska); married Halina (Chojnacka vel Kolarska); children: Magdalena, Marcin.
Education: Master of Science (M.S.) (in electrical engineering), Technical University of Warsaw (Poland), 1976; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA), 1982.
Career: teaching assistant, Department of Electronics, Technical University of Warsaw, 1976-79; research assistant, 1979-82, research associate, 1982, assistant prof., 1983-87, associate prof., 1987-89, prof. 1989 -, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; associate editor, 1985-87, editor, 1987-89. IEEE Transactions on Computer - Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems; prof., Department of Electronics, Warsaw Institute of Technology, 1990-91.
Author: editor, Statistical Design of Integrated Circuits, 1987; co-editor (with W. Maly and W. Moore), Yieid Modeling and Defect Tolerance in VLSI, 1988, (with S.W. Director and W. Maly), Computer - Aided VLSI Design. A Statistical Approach, 1989; over 40 scientific articles in: IEEE Design and Test Computers, IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE Journal on Solid - State Circuits, IEEE Journal on Semiconductor Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on Computer - Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Journal of the Optical Society of America; IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology; over 80 papers on scientific conferences and meetings.
Member of, i.a.: Semiconductor Research Corporation Committee on Software Portability, 1985-89; Profile Interchange Format Committee, 1985-90; fellow, active member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); International Conference on Computer - Aided Design (chairman, 1988, 1989).
Honors, i.a.: research award, Ministry of Higher Education (Poland), 1979; George Tallman Ladd Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 1986; President Young Investigator award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1986; Innovator of the Year, 1990; Distinguished Service award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1990; Best Paper award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1991; grants, General Electric Company (GE), 1984-85, 1986-87, Semiconductor Research Corporation, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1987-89, Harris Semiconductor Company, 1984-88, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1986-91, Hughes Aircraft, 1986-87, Texas Instruments, 1987-89, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), 1989-90.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, Russian.
Hobbies: skiing, sailing, soccer.
Office: Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.