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IEEE Fellowship for founder Hellestrand
Dr Graham Hellestrand, founder and CEO of Vast Systems Technology, has been elected a Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors.
Dr Graham Hellestrand, founder and CEO of Vast Systems Technology, has been elected a Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors IEEE Fellow presentations were made at the Design Automation Conference
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The IEEE confers the grade of Fellow on engineers whose exceptional achievements and contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society and the engineering profession.
"Graham certainly meets these criteria", said Dr Michael Lightner, Vice President of IEEE publications, and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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"His combination of vision, technical expertise, and business acumen has led to significant accomplishments in EDA tools for complex systems".
"Graham's accomplishments have taken place both within the walls of academia, in his role as full Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, as well as in the highly competitive EDA business environment, as the CEO of Vast Systems Technology, a rising company in electronic systems design".
Dr Hellestrand has more than 30 years of experience in electronic systems engineering and is the principal author of two US patents that form the basis of Vast products.
Vast Systems Technology is the third high tech company that Hellestrand has founded.
Under Dr Hellestrand's leadership, VaST is establishing a standard process for electronic system design (ESL).
The company's tools are used to architect high performance, timing-accurate virtual system prototypes that enable the exploration and accurate assessment of the effect of architectural choices, the development of software, and the design of hardware.
These virtual electronic systems are used to develop and verify the architecture, hardware and software of multiprocessor wireless systems, consumer electronic devices and networked electronic control systems for automobiles.
Vast's unique processor, bus and device modelling technologies enable speeds of 20-200MIPS in highly accurate software-only versions of complex systems.
After 25 years (1973-1998) as an academic staff member at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Dr Hellestrand was elected Emeritus Professor of computer science and engineering in December 2002.
During his tenure at UNSW, he was the founder, and from 1979-1998 the Director of the VLSI and Systems Technology Laboratory.
From 1989-1996, Dr Hellestrand founded and managed the multidisciplinary computer engineering undergraduate programme at UNSW - one of the first to meld software, hardware and management disciplines into a four-year professional course.
During this period, he published more than 100 refereed papers in international conferences and journals.
Dr Hellestrand has been active in the IEEE as Board Member and Vice President, Asia-Pacific, of the Circuits and Systems Society of the IEEE; General Cochair of the 2001 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems; and General Chair of the first Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS) in 1992.
Dr Hellestrand holds BSc and PhD degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from UNSW, and MBA and MBA (Exec) degrees from The Australian Graduate School of Management and the University of Sydney.
He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and is a certified professional engineer.
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