Prof. Patrick H. Madden Director, BLAC CAD Research Group Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept. State University of New York at Binghamton P.O. Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902 Office: N16 Phone: (607) 777 2943 Fax: (607) 777 4802 URL: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~pmadden email: pmadden@acm.org GPG Public Key for pmadden@acm.org

• Research
  • Optimization for NP-hard problems (with applications to VLSI integrated circuit design, Protein identification and Cryptography).
• Conferences
  • ISPD (steering chair for '08)
  • EDP (general chair for '08)
• Courses and Related Material:
  • CS575 Algorithms, Fall 2007, T/Th 1:15-2:40, APG014
  • CS210 Machine Organization, Fall 2007, T/Th 10:05-11:30am, AAG008
  • MS and PhD qualifying exams for Algorithms
• Binghamton ACM group
• Professional Activities
• Vita

My main research interest is in optimization for NP-hard problems, with a particular focus on problems relevant to VLSI CAD. I am also actively working on cryptography and biology-related topics.