Alexander Tetelbaum

Alexander Y. Tetelbaum (born August 16, 1948) is a Ukrainian American computer scientist, inventor, and academic who has contributed to electronic design automation (EDA) and artificial intelligence (AI) since the late 1960s; Tetelbaum is the founding president of International Solomon University, the first Jewish university in Ukraine, established during a period of renewed efforts to address antisemitism in Ukraine.

Early life and education He graduated from a Kyiv mathematical high school with a silver medal in 1966. Tetelbaum enrolled at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI), now National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" in 1966, graduating in 1972 with an MS in Electronics with honors. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from KPI in 1975, with a dissertation on electronic design automation, and his Doctor of Engineering Science in 1986.

Academic career Tetelbaum began his academic career at KPI in 1973 as a junior scientist, becoming a professor in the Computer and Electrical Engineering Department in 1980. Later, he founded and served as president of International Solomon University in Kyiv from 1991 to 1996, the first Jewish university in Ukraine. The university became a major academic center for computer science and Jewish studies in the post-Soviet era.

He was a visiting and adjunct professor at Michigan State University from 1993 to 1996.

Professional career Tetelbaum worked as an engineer at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics from 1972 to 1973, and later, he led the Design Automation Lab at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from 1975 to 1987. and mathematical optimization; and he developed force-directed placement and topological routing methods.

Tetelbaum generalized Rent's rule for hierarchical systems and large blocks, proposing a graph-based framework that extends applicability to arbitrary partition sizes with improved accuracy.

Additional IEEE and related conference contributions from the mid-1990s include: "Path Search for Complicated Function", 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems "A Performance-driven Placement Approach of Standard Cells" (International Conference on Intelligent Systems, 1995) "Framework of a New Methodology for Behavioral to Physical Design Linkage" (38th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1996) Statistical timing design and variations Test Methodologies

These and other works and patents contributed to timing-driven placement, crosstalk reduction, clock tree synthesis, and interconnect optimization in VLSI design.

Patents Tetelbaum holds 46 U.S. patents in EDA and related fields. 2012 2 US8645888 Timing analysis incorporating temperature inversion 2014 3 US8922176 Programmable Slew Rate Power Switch 2014 4 US8775995 Core Timing Prediction of Core Logic Through an Over-Core Window 2014 5 US8694937 Implementing and Checking Electronic Circuits With Flexible Ramptime Limits 2014

For the full list of patents, see Justia Patents or Google Patents.

Publications

Early publications in the Soviet Union Before the appearance of American books on electronic design automation (EDA), Tetelbaum published several scientific books and monographs on the subject in Russian/Ukrainian.

Electronic Design Automation, Kiev: Znanie Publisher, 1975. Interviewing AI (2026) The AI Debate (2026) New Nostradamus Predictions: 2026: The Next Decade & Beyond (2035–2050+) (2026)

For a consolidated record of Tetelbaum's publications, see .

Other publications Tetelbaum also published educational books on problem-solving methods: Yes-No Puzzles-Games Puzzle Games for Kids Solving Non-Standard Problems Solving Non-Standard Very Hard Problems

Additionally, Tetelbaum published three thrillers: Omerta Operations Executive Director Eruption Yacht

Finally, he published his memoir and an entertaining book: Unfinished Equations Artificially Intelligent Humor