Patrick H. Madden

Associate Professor; Program Director, MS Information Systems

School of Computing

Background

Website: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~pmadden
GPG Public Key for pmadden@acm.org

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 ACM/SIGDA, 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