Patrick H. Madden
Associate Professor; Program Director, MS Information Systems
School of Computing
Background
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Madden is interested in optimization for NP-Hard and NP-complete problems. Most of his is applied to VLSI physical design automation, but he is also working on problems in biology and cryptography, with skepticism of parallel computing.
He is the chair of , the design automation special interest group. He is also the chair of the Design Automation Conference sponsors committee and the DAC executive committee. He advises the Binghamton ACM chapter and coaches the ICPC programming contest teams.
Education
- BS, MS, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
Research Interests
- Combinatorial optimization
- Algorithms
- VLSI design automation
Awards
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2014-15