About the Contributors

534 About the Contributors Raimund Ubar is a professor of computer engineering at Tallinn Technical University and the head of Centre of Excellence for Integrated Electronic Systems and Biomedical Engineering in Estonia. R. Ubar received his PhD degree in 1971 at the Bauman Technical University in Moscow. His main research interests include computer science, electronics design, digital test, diagnostics and fault-tolerance. He has published more than 250 papers and three books, lectured as a visiting professor in more than 25 universities in about 10 countries, and served as a General Chairman for 10th European Test Con- ference, NORCHIP, BEC, EWDTC. He is a member of Estonian Academy of Sciences, Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society and honorary professor of National University of Radioelectronics Charkiv (Ukraine). He was a chairman of Estonian Science Foundation, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Estonian President. Jaan Raik received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) in 1997 and in 2001, respectively. Since 2002 he holds a position of senior research fellow at TUT. He is a member of IEEE Computer Society, a Steering Committee member of European Dependable Computing Conference and Programme Committee member for many leading conferences (DATE, ETS, DDECS, etc.). Dr. Raik has co-authored more than 100 scientific publications. In 2004, he was awarded the national Young Scientist Award. In 2005, he served as the Organisation Chair of the IEEE European Test Symposium. He has carried out research work at several foreign institutes inclu- ding Darmstadt University of Technology, INPG Grenoble, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits (Dresden), University of Stuttgart and University of Verona. His main research interests include high-level test generation, fault tolerant design and verification. Dr. Raik was the local project lead for the VERTIGO FP6 STREP project on verification and is the coordinator of the DIAMOND FP7 STREP project. Heinrich Theodor Vierhaus received a diploma degree in electrical engineering from Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) in 1975. From 1975 to 1977 he was with the German Volunteer Service (DED/ GVS), teaching electronic and RF engineering courses at the Dar-es-Salaam Technical College in Tanzania (East Africa). Later he became a research assistant at the University of Siegen Germany), where he received a doctorate (Dr.- Ing.) in microelectronics in 1983. From 1983 to 1996 he was a senior researcher with GMD, the German national research institute for information technology at St. Augustin near Bonn, where he became the acting director of the System Design Technology Institute (SET) in 1993. During this time he also served as a part-time lecturer for the University of Bonn and Darmstadt University of Technology. Since 1996 he has been a full professor for computer engineering at Brandenburg University Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. About the Contributors of Technology Cottbus. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in the area of IC design and test technology. He has been a member of the IEEE for about 30 years. * * * Igor Aleksejev received his M.Sc. in computer engineering from the Tallinn University of Technol- ogy, Estonia in 2008. He is employed as a researcher at Dept. of Computer Engineering of TUT. He has co-authored 8 scientific papers. His research interests include testing technologies, like Boundary Scan, Built-In Self-Test and Test Compaction topics. Marcel Baláž graduated from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia) with the Master’s degree in Computer Engineering in 2003. He has been with the Institute of Informatics of Slovak Academy of Sciences (IISAS) since that year. From 2008 he has been the deputy leader of Design and Test research group at IISAS. Marcel is a co-author of several published papers in both design and test of integrated circuits and a co-author of a chapter in electronic system testing handbook. He has been involved in several national and international projects. He submitted his PhD thesis in Applied Informatics in February 2010. Paolo Bernardi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Control and Computer Engineer- ing of Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy). His research interests include SoC testing and diagnosis, fault-tolerant systems, and tester architectures. He has an MS (’02) and a PhD (’06), both in Computer Engineering, from Politecnico di Torino. Paolo Bernardi is recipient of the DATE 06 best paper and the EDAA PhD 06 awards; he is currently serving the technical program committee of IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference and IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS). Paolo Bernardi is a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. Krishnendu Chakrabarty received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1990, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is now Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. His current research projects include testing and design-for-testability of integrated circuits, digital microfluidics and biochips, and circuits based on DNA self-assembly. Prof. Chakrabarty is a Fel- low of IEEE, a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Distinguished Engineer of ACM. He is the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Design & Test of Computers and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He serves as an Editor of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. Anton Chepurov received his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Tallinn University of Technology in 2008. He has co-authored more than 15 scientific papers. His research interests include modeling and debug of digital systems. Adam Dabrowski is a full professor in multimedia and digital signal processing at the Department of Computing and head of the Division of Signal Processing and Electronic Systems, Poznan University 535 About the Contributors of Technology, Poland. His scientific interests concentrate on: digital signal and image processing (filter- ing, signal separation, multirate and multidimensional systems, wavelet transformation), multimedia, biometrics, visual systems, processor architectures, and fault tolerant as well self repairing systems. He is author or co-author of 4 books and over 200 scientific papers. He was a Humboldt Foundation fellow at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), visiting professor at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Catholic University in Leuven (Belgium), University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), and the Technical University of Berlin (Germany). He is Chairman of the Circuits & Systems (CAS) and Signal Process- ing (SP) Chapters of the Poland IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Section. Professor Adam Dabrowski won the IEEE Chapter of the Year Award, New York, USA. He was also awarded with the diploma for the outstanding position in the IEEE Chapter of the Year Contest (2001). Sergei Devadze has received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia in 2004 and 2009 respectively and currently holds the position of researcher in this university. His primary research interests embrace such topics as fault simulation, fault modeling, extended board-level test, and decomposition of finite-state machines. He is a co-author of over 30 scientific papers in the field of digital design and test published in international journals and refereed conference proceedings. Roland Dobai received the Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia) in 2008. Currently he is a PhD student at the Institute of Infor- matics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovakia) in the field of Applied Informatics. His research is targeted at testing of asynchronous sequential digital circuits. He is a student member of the IEEE. Rolf Drechsler received his diploma and Dr. phil. nat. degree in computer science from the J.W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was with the Institute of Computer Science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany from 1995 to 2000 and joined the Corporate Technology Department of Siemens AG, Munich in 2000. Since October 2001 he has been with the University of Bremen, Germany, where he is now a full professor for computer architecture. His research interests include data structures, logic synthesis, test and verification. Among other conferences he worked on the program committees of DAC, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, and DATE. He received a best paper award at the Forum on Design Languages (FDL) in 2007 and at the Haifa Verification Conference (HVC) in 2006. Petru Eles received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Politehnica University of Bucha- rest, Romania, in 1993. He is currently a professor with the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interests include embedded systems design, hardware-software codesign, real-time

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