Boris Troyanovsky
boris@gloworm.stanford.edu
tel. (707) 577-4060 (work)
tel. (707) 542-6866 (home)

EXPERIENCE:

3/2000 – Present

 

R&D Project Manager
Agilent Technologies, EEsof Division

Responsible for managing a team of engineers working on high-frequency circuit simulation software.
4/1999 – 3/2000

R&D Software Engineer/Scientist
Hewlett-Packard Co., EEsof Division

Responsible for development and implementation of novel numerical algorithms for high-frequency analog circuit simulation.

8/1995 – 4/1999

R&D Software Engineer
Hewlett-Packard Co., EEsof Division

Designed and implemented core circuit simulation algorithms for the HP Advanced Design System, including Krylov-based harmonic balance / nonlinear noise analysis, frequency-converting small-signal analysis, and RF system budget analysis.

1/1994 - 8/1995
and Summers, 1990-1992

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Measurement Systems Lab

Worked on several projects relating to simulation tool development, including developing extensions to the HP-SPICE circuit simulator, implementing a phase noise measurement software system, and working on portions of an electromagnetic interference software package.

EDUCATION: 
9/1993 - 11/1997


Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

10/1992 - 8/1993

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

8/1988 - 12/1991

 

B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors, UC Berkeley
Ranked 1st in Electrical Engineering Department (recipient of EECS departmental citation) 

 

 

  

US PATENTS

Patent 5,666,367: "Method for Simulating a Circuit," issued
Sep. 9, 1997.

Patent 5,808,915: "Method for Reducing the Memory Required for Simulating a Circuit on a Digital Computer," issued Sep. 15, 1998.

One additional patent is pending.

PUBLICATIONS:

· B. Troyanovsky, Z. Yu, and R. W. Dutton, "Physics-Based Simulation of Nonlinear Distortion in Semiconductor Devices Using the Harmonic Balance Method", Journal of Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 181 (4), April 2000.

· B. Troyanovsky, F. Rotella, Z. Yu, R. W. Dutton, and T. Arnborg, "Efficient multi-tone harmonic balance simulation of semiconductor devices in the presence of linear high-Q circuitry," Proc. SASIMI ’97, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 1997

· B. Troyanovsky, F. Rotella, Z. Yu, R. W. Dutton, and J. Sato-Iwanaga, "Large signal analysis of RF/microwave devices with parasitics using harmonic balance device simulation," Proc. SASIMI ’97, Fukuoka, Japan, Nov. 1996

· B. Troyanovsky, Z. Yu, L. So, and R. W. Dutton, "Relaxation-based harmonic balance technique for semiconductor device simulation," Proc. IEEE/ACM Conf. On Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, Nov. 1995

· B. Troyanovsky, Z. Yu, and R.W. Dutton, "Large Signal Frequency Domain Device Analysis Via the Harmonic Balance Technique," Simulation of Semiconductor Devices and Processes, Erlangen, Germany, Sep. 4-6, 1995

· B. Troyanovsky, N. Chang, and D. Dowell, "Integration of Transient S-Parameter Simulation into HPSPICE," Design Technology Conf. ‘94, Santa Clara, CA, May, 1994

· Co-author on five other publications in Proc. Int. Electron Devices Meeting, Proc. Custom Inegrated Circuit Conference, Proc. Int. Solid State Circuits Conf., and Simulation of Semiconductor Devices and Processes.

ACADEMIC AWARDS:

Departmental Citation, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Awarded to the graduating senior with the best overall academic performance in the department.

Henry Ford II Scholar Award (for 1991). Awarded to "the UC Berkeley engineering undergraduate with the best academic performance at the end of the junior year."

Recipient of National Science Foundation Fellowship. 

COMPUTER LANGUAGES:

C, C++, Mathematica, Matlab, some experience with Lex/Yacc, Lisp (Scheme), Fortran, and a few Assembly Languages.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE:

Russian.