Dr. Shawn Blanton: Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by Leshell Hatley in Electrical Engineering, Faculty, I'm a Full Professor!, Scholarly Celebrations
Shawn Blanton is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Center for Silicon System Implementation.
Education
In 1995 he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include various aspects of integrated system test, testable design, and test methodology development. He has consulted for various companies, and is the founder of TestWorks, a Carnegie Mellon University spinout focused on information extraction from IC test data.
Awards & Talks
He received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation in 1997, and IBM Faculty Partnership Awards in 2005 and 2006. He has given over fifty invited talks at many universities and companies that include Stanford, Yale, Texas A&M, Duke, Purdue, Intel, AMD, IBM, Delphi, Hewlett Packard, CISCO, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Freescale, Motorola and Nvidia. He has served on various technical program committees that include the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, and the International Test Conference. He also currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on CAD. He has published over 70 refereed conference and journal papers and has six U.S. patents or patent applications filed. He is a fellow of the IEEE and senior member of the ACM.
Service
Dr. Blanton is also significantly involved in the recruitment of minority candidates for graduate school. Most of his activities centers on direct recruitment at the annual convention of the National Society Black Engineers. In 2006, he spearheaded the university’s efforts (CMU@NSBE) for the 2006 NSBE convention held here in Pittsburgh. In 2006, Blanton was awarded an Emerald Award for outstanding leadership in recruiting and mentoring minorities for advanced degrees in science and technology.
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