Alex Yakovlev

Professor Alexandre (Alex) Yakovlev is a Dream Fellow of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), United Kingdom, to investigate different aspects of energy-modulated computing. He received D.Sc. from Newcastle University in 2006, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. from St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering Institute in 1979 and 1982 respectively, where he worked in the area of asynchronous and concurrent systems since 1980, and in the period between 1982 and 1990 held positions of assistant and associate professor at the Computing Science department. Since 1991 he has been at the Newcastle University, where he is a professor and leads the Microelectronic Systems Design research group at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His main interests and publications are in the field of modelling and design of asynchronous, concurrent, real-time and dependable systems on a chip. He has published four monographs and more than 300 papers in academic journals and conferences, and has managed over 25 research contracts. He has chaired program committees of several international conferences, including the IEEE Int. Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), Petri nets (ICATPN), Applications of Concurrency to Systems Design (ACSD), and he has been Chairman of the Steering committee of the Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design since 2001. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of IET. In April 2008 he was General Chair of the 14th ASYNC Symposium and 2nd Int. Symposium on Networks on Chip, and Tutorial Chair at Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) in 2009. He was recently an invited speaker at DDECS 2010, KTN event on Power Management in 2010 and DATE 2011, where he spoke on "Energy-Modulated Computing". He was a visiting professor at Technical University of Vienna in May-June 2011.