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Leon Stok is Vice President of IBM's Electronic Design Automation group. His team delivers world-class design and verification flows and tools being used to design the world’s largest supercomputers, and IBM Z and Power systems. Prior to this he held positions as director of EDA and executive assistant to IBM's Senior Vice President of Technology and Intellectual Property and executive assistant to IBM's Senior Vice President of the Technology group. Leon Stok studied electrical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, from which he graduated with honors in 1986. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from Eindhoven University in 1991. At IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Leon Stok pioneered logic synthesis, as part of the team that developed BooleDozer. Subsequently he managed IBM's synthesis group and drove the first commercial application of physical synthesis bt developing, IBM’s Placement Driven Synthesis tool. From 1999-2004 he led all of IBM's design automation research as the Senior Manager Design Automation at IBM Research. He drove key innovations in DFM using RRR (Radically Restrictive Rules), in static timing analysis using statistical timing and in large block physical synthesis.
Dr. Stok has presented over fourty keynotes, invited talks and tutorials at major IEEE and ACM conferences worldwide and at many leading universities.
Dr. Stok has published over sixty papers on many aspects of high level, architectural and logic synthesis, low power design, placement driven synthesis and on the automatic placement and routing for schematic diagrams. He holds 13 patents in EDA. He was elected an IEEE fellow for the development and application of high-level and logic synthesis algorithms.
