Alexander Y. Tetelbaum

Alexander Y. Tetelbaum is a Ukrainian American computer scientist and inventor who has worked on electronic design automation and artificial intelligence since the late 1960s.亚历山大·Y·捷捷尔鲍姆（Alexander Y. Tetelbaum）是乌克兰裔美国计算机科学家与发明家，自 20 世纪 60 年代末起从事电子设计自动化与人工智能研究。

He holds 46 U.S. patents in chip design and founded International Solomon University, the first Jewish university in Ukraine.他持有 46 项美国芯片设计专利，并创办了乌克兰第一所犹太大学——所罗门国际大学。

Biography

• Tetelbaum was born on 16 August 1948 in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and attended a Kyiv mathematical high school.捷捷尔鲍姆 1948 年 8 月 16 日出生在乌克兰苏维埃共和国，就读于基辅一所数学高中。
• He graduated from that school with a silver medal in 1966 and enrolled at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in the same year.1966 年，他以银牌从该校毕业，同年进入基辅理工学院。
• He completed an M.S. in electronics with honours at the institute in 1972, after six years of study.经过六年学习，他于 1972 年在该校以优异成绩获得电子学硕士学位。
• From 1972 to 1973 he worked as an engineer at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics.1972 年至 1973 年，他在基辅控制论研究所担任工程师。
• He then returned to the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a junior scientist in 1973 and took a PhD in electrical and computer engineering in 1975.随后他于 1973 年回到基辅理工学院担任初级研究员，1975 年获得电气与计算机工程博士学位。
• His doctoral dissertation dealt with electronic design automation, a field in which he published books in Russian and Ukrainian before Western texts appeared.他的博士论文研究电子设计自动化，在这一领域，他在西方教材出现之前就用俄语和乌克兰语出版了著作。
• In 1975 he also began leading the Design Automation Laboratory at the institute, a post he held until 1987.1975 年，他还开始领导该院的设计自动化实验室，一直任职到 1987 年。
• He became a professor in the Computer and Electrical Engineering Department in 1980 and earned a Doctor of Engineering Science in 1986.1980 年，他成为计算机与电气工程系教授，1986 年获得工程科学博士学位。
• When the Soviet Union dissolved, Tetelbaum founded International Solomon University in Kyiv and served as its president from 1991 to 1996.苏联解体后，捷捷尔鲍姆在基辅创办所罗门国际大学，1991 年至 1996 年担任校长。
• It was the first Jewish university in Ukraine and became a centre for computer science and Jewish studies in the post-Soviet years.这是乌克兰第一所犹太大学，在后苏联时期成为计算机科学与犹太研究的中心。
• While running the university he was also a visiting and adjunct professor at Michigan State University from 1993 to 1996.在主持大学期间，他还在 1993 年至 1996 年担任密歇根州立大学访问教授与兼职教授。
• He moved into industry in the United States, managing EDA at Silicon Graphics from 1996 to 1998.他随后进入美国产业界，1996 年至 1998 年在硅谷图形公司负责电子设计自动化。
• From 1998 to 2012 he was a principal engineer at LSI Corporation, working on design tools for large integrated circuits.1998 年至 2012 年，他在 LSI 公司担任首席工程师，从事大型集成电路设计工具研发。
• In 2012 he founded Abelite Design Automation and served as its chief executive until 2022.2012 年，他创办阿贝莱特设计自动化公司，并担任首席执行官至 2022 年。
• His career thus moved from Soviet academic institutes through American chip companies to his own design-automation firm.他的职业生涯由此从苏联学术机构，经美国芯片公司，走到自己创办的设计自动化企业。
• He is a citizen of the United States and has published technical monographs in English in recent years.他是美国公民，近年出版了多部英文技术专著。

Research

• Tetelbaum's early work covered physical design automation and mathematical optimization for electronic circuits.捷捷尔鲍姆的早期工作涵盖电子电路的物理设计自动化与数学优化。
• He developed force-directed placement methods, which position circuit blocks by treating connections as attracting forces.他发展了力导向布局方法，把连接视为吸引力来安排电路模块的位置。
• He also worked on topological routing, the problem of connecting nets across layers of a chip or board.他还研究拓扑布线，即在芯片或电路板各层之间连接网络的问题。
• His best-known theoretical result generalizes Rent's rule, an empirical relation between the number of terminals and the number of blocks in a hierarchical system.他最知名的理论成果是推广了伦特定则，这一经验关系描述分层系统中端子数与模块数之间的联系。
• The generalization uses a graph-based framework and extends the rule to large blocks and arbitrary partition sizes with better accuracy.这一推广采用基于图的框架，把该定则扩展到大型模块与任意划分规模，并提高了准确性。
• He presented Generalizations of Rent's rule at the 1995 Southeastern Symposium on System Theory.他在 1995 年东南系统理论研讨会上报告了《伦特定则的推广》。^[1]
• A 1996 paper in Computers and Structures predicted structure and layout parameters for hierarchical systems.1996 年发表于《计算机与结构》的论文预测了分层系统的结构与布局参数。^[2]
• Mid-1990s conference papers included Path Search for Complicated Function and A Performance-driven Placement Approach of Standard Cells.20 世纪 90 年代中期的会议论文包括《复杂函数的路径搜索》与《标准单元的性能驱动布局方法》。
• He also published a framework linking behavioural design to physical design at the 1996 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.他还在 1996 年中西部电路与系统研讨会上发表了一个把行为设计与物理设计连接起来的框架。
• His work on statistical timing and test methodologies fed into timing-driven placement and crosstalk reduction in very large scale integration.他在统计时序与测试方法方面的工作，推动了超大规模集成电路中的时序驱动布局与串扰抑制。
• The same body of patents and papers addressed clock tree synthesis and interconnect optimization.同一批专利与论文还涉及时钟树综合与互连优化。
• Before Western books on the subject circulated widely, he wrote nine monographs on computer-aided design in Kiev and Moscow.在西方相关书籍广泛流传之前，他在基辅与莫斯科撰写了九部计算机辅助设计专著。
• These included Planar Design of Electronic Circuits in 1977 and CAD of VLSI Circuits on Master Slice Chips in 1988.其中包括 1977 年的《电子电路平面设计》与 1988 年的《门阵列芯片上的超大规模集成电路计算机辅助设计》。
• His 2022 monograph Minimum Number of Timing Signoff Corners returned to a practical problem in chip signoff.他 2022 年的专著《最少的时序签核角数量》回到芯片签核中的实际难题。
• Later books turned to artificial intelligence, including Interviewing AI and The AI Debate, both published in 2026.此后的著作转向人工智能，包括 2026 年出版的《采访人工智能》与《人工智能辩论》。
• He also wrote puzzle books such as Solving Non-Standard Problems and a memoir titled Unfinished Equations.他还写了《解决非标准问题》等谜题书，以及回忆录《未完成的方程》。
• Three thrillers, Omerta Operations, Executive Director and Eruption Yacht, appeared between 2023 and 2025.2023 年至 2025 年间，他出版了《缄默行动》《执行董事》与《喷发的游艇》三部惊悚小说。

Awards

• Tetelbaum has received an honorary doctorate in recognition of his work in design automation and education.捷捷尔鲍姆因在设计自动化与教育方面的工作获得名誉博士学位。
• He has won several Best Paper Awards at IEEE and related conferences.他多次获得 IEEE 及相关会议的最佳论文奖。
• He holds the Medal Veteran of Labour and the medal commemorating the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.他持有「劳动老兵」奖章与基辅建城 1500 周年纪念奖章。
• His 46 U.S. patents cover placement, routing, timing and other aspects of chip design.他的 46 项美国专利覆盖布局、布线、时序以及芯片设计的其他方面。
• The International Solomon University he founded became a lasting institutional achievement beyond his technical work.他创办的所罗门国际大学，成为其技术工作之外一项持久的机构成就。
• His books on design automation circulated in the Soviet Union when such material was scarce.他的设计自动化著作在相关资料稀缺的苏联时期流传。
• Recent monographs and conference papers continue to add to a record that spans more than five decades.近年的专著与会议论文继续扩充着这份跨越五十余年的成果记录。

Personal life

• Tetelbaum's career after 1991 moved from Kyiv to Michigan and then to California companies, following the openings created by the end of the Soviet Union.捷捷尔鲍姆从基辅到密歇根、再到加利福尼亚的迁移，顺应了苏联解体带来的机会。
• He has described his life in a memoir, Unfinished Equations, published in 2025.他在 2025 年出版的回忆录《未完成的方程》中讲述了自己的一生。
• Alongside technical writing he produced puzzle books for children and adults, including Yes-No Puzzles-Games in 2017.除技术写作外，他还为儿童与成人编写谜题书，包括 2017 年的《是非谜题游戏》。
• His fiction includes Omerta Operations from 2023 and two further thrillers.他的小说创作始于 2023 年的《缄默行动》，此后又出版了两部惊悚小说。
• After stepping down from Abelite in 2022 he kept writing on artificial intelligence and on prediction.2022 年从阿贝莱特卸任后，他继续撰写人工智能与预测方面的著作。
• He became a United States citizen, and his later patents and books were produced there.他仍定居美国，后来的专利与著作都在那里完成。