
Patrick H. Madden
Associate Professor; Program Director, MS Information Systems
Computer Science
Background
Website: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~pmadden
GPG Public Key for pmadden@acm.org
I am interested in optimization for NP-Hard and NP-complete problems. Most of my work is applied to VLSI physical design automation, but I am also working on problems in biology and cryptography. I have become notorious for my skepticism of parallel computing. I am currently the chair of ACM/SIGDA, the design automation special interest group. I am also the chair of the Design Automation Conference sponsors committee, and the DAC executive committee. I advise the Binghamton ACM chapter, and coach 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
- and VLSI design automation
Awards
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
- 2014-2015