Martin Margala

Martin received the M.S. degree in microelectronics from Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 1990 and 1998, respectively. Between 1998 and 2007, he was with the University of Alberta and the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA. He joined University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA, in 2007. Since 2011, he has been a Professor and the Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell. In his role as Department Chair, he has been supporting University students in their pursuit of innovation and novel ideas to commercial success. He collaborates with several innovation centers and incubators in Massachusetts.

Martin was named Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Electrical Engineering for the 2015-2016 year. In this role, he helped to organize several workshops in the Central Europe region on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Academia and best practices in technology transfer and early start-up development. He is a senior member of professional societies such as IEEE (Computer, Circuits and Systems, Solid-State Circuits Societies), ACM (SIGHPC) and SPIE, and a member of AAAS and ASEE. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He holds three patents. His current research interests include high-frequency circuits, high-bandwidth data-processing architectures, and adaptive built-in self-test systems. Martin is a member of several program committees of many conferences and symposia in VLSI circuit design and test. He is also a member of steering committees for IEEE NATW and ACM GLSVLSI.