John Bandler's Achievement Milestones

The following documents scientific, engineering and commercial achievements of John Bandler, with academic and professional colleagues and coworkers.

computerized Smith chart plots (1966)
performance-driven optimization (1968)
optimization of waveguide circuits (1969)
adjoint sensitivities for microwave circuits (1970)
cost-driven worst-case design with optimized tolerances (1972)
centering, tolerance assignment integrated with tuning at the design stage (1974)
integrated approach to microwave design with tolerances and uncertainties (1975)
yield-driven optimization for general statistical distributions (1976)
new results for cascaded circuits (1978)
optimal tuning and alignment at the production stage (1980)
fault diagnosis and parameter extraction (1980)
Bandler founds Optimization Systems Associates (OSA) (1983)
waveguide multiplexer minimax optimization system embodying exact adjoint sensitivites (1984)
introduction of powerful minimax optimizers into commercial CAD/CAE products such as EEsof's Touchstone (1985)
large-scale microwave optimization (1986)
foundation of multi-circuit L1 modeling (1986)
world's first yield-driven design for Compact Software's Super-Compact (1987)
enhancements to commercial CAD/CAE products including Compact Software's Microwave Harmonica (1988)
parameter extraction using novel large-scale concepts (1988)
nonlinear adjoint (harmonic balance) exact sensitivities (1988)
OSA's RoMPE, world's first commercial product for FET parameter extraction featuring S-parameters and/or DC data (1988)
yield-driven design of nonlinear microwave circuits (1989)
FAST, novel technique for high-speed nonlinear sensitivities (1989)
efficient large-signal FET parameter extraction using harmonics (1989)
OSA's HarPE, world's first commercial product for harmonic balance driven FET parameter extraction (1989)
combined discrete/normal statistical modeling of active devices (1989)
efficient quadratic approximation for statistical design (1989)
nonlinear circuit optimization with dynamically integrated physical device models (1990)
analytically unified DC/small-signal/large-signal circuit design (1990)
OSA's OSA90, world's first friendly optimization engine for performance- and yield-driven design (1990)
OSA's Datapipe Technology, OSA90's interprocess communication system (1990)
OSA's OSA90/hope, the microwave and RF harmonic optimization system (1991)
design optimization with external simulators, circuit-theoretic and field-theoretic (1991)
statistical modeling of GaAs MESFETs (1991)
gradient quadratic approximation for yield optimization (1991)
physics-based design and yield optimization of MMICs (1991)
OSA's Spicepipe connection of OSA90/hope with Zuberek's SPICE-PAC simulator (1992)
OSA's Empipe connection of OSA90/hope with Sonnet Software's em field simulator (1992)
predictable yield-driven circuit optimization (1992)
integrated physics-oriented statistical modeling, simulation and optimization (1992)
"fulfils the requirement of microwave engineers to model and simulate nonlinear active and passive systems without having a thorough knowledge of analysis, and optimization methods" - Microwave Engineering Europe (1992)
Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Hoefer's TLM electromagnetic field simulators (1993)
Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Nakhla/Zhang VLSI interconnect simulators (1993)
microstrip filter design using direct EM field simulation (1993)
yield-driven direct electromagnetic optimization (1993)
robustizing modeling and design using Huber functions (1993)
"CAD review: Non-linear CAD benchmark" by Microwave Engineering Europe (1993)
EM design of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) microwave filters (1994)
CDF approach to statistical modeling (1994)
Space Mapping - a fundamental new theory for design with CPU intensive simulators (1994)
"CAD review: the 7 GHz doubler circuit" by Microwave Engineering Europe (1994)
optimization of planar structures with arbitrary geometry (1994)
OSA's breakthrough Geometry Capture technique (1995): now used by Agilent EEsof EDA
OSA's Aggressive Space Mapping for EM design (1995)
cost-driven physics-based large-signal simultaneous device and circuit design (1995)
integrated harmonic balance and EM optimization (1995)
novel heterogeneous parallel yield-driven EM CAD (1995)
mixed-domain multi-simulator statistical parameter extraction and yield-driven design (1995)
IEEE IMS workshop on Automated Circuit Design Using Electromagnetic Simulators (Arndt, Bandler, Chen, Hoefer, Jain, Jansen, Pavio, Pucel, Sorrentino, Swanson, 1995)
explosion of development and use of optimization-based technology for automated circuit design with EM simulators (1994, 1995)
Network Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Hoefer's TLM electromagnetic field simulators on massively parallel computers (1995)
Datapipe connections of OSA90/hope with Sorrentino's mode-matching electromagnetic field simulators with adjoint sensitivities (1995)
Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Arndt's waveguide component library (1995)
parameterization of arbitrary geometrical structures (1996)
fully-automated Space Mapping optimization of 3D structures (1996)
OSA's Empipe3D connection of OSA90/hope with Hewlett-Packard's HFSS and Ansoft's Maxwell Eminence full-wave 3D simulators (1996)
OSA creates EmpipeExpress and empath for connection to Sonnet Software's em field simulator (1996)
Space Mapping optimization with finite element (FEM) and mode matching (MM) EM simulators (1997)
Hewlett-Packard acquires OSA, expanding HP's CAE portfolio (1997)
Bandler founds Bandler Corporation (1997)
integration of OSA's Empipe3D with HP HFSS by HP EEsof launches HFSS Optimization (1998)
HP EEsof builds OSA technology into HP Momentum initiating Momentum Optimization (1998)
Trust Region Aggressive Space Mapping (TRASM) for EM design (1998)
Zhang and Bandler strengthen joint research (1998)
Multiple Space Mapping optimization of signal integrity (1998)
Artificial Neural Networks vs. Space Mapping for device modeling (1998)
Hybrid Aggressive Space Mapping (HASM) optimization algorithm (1999)
novel Aggressive Parameter Extraction (APE) algorithm (1999)
modeling of microwave circuits exploiting Space Derivative Mapping (SDM) (1999)
breakthrough Neuro Space Mapping (NSM) approach to device modeling (1999)
implementation of Neuro Space Mapping technology into Zhang’s Neuromodeler (1999)
Generalized Space Mapping (GSM) tableau approach to device modeling (1999)
research begins on Surrogate Model/Space Mapping optimization algorithms (1999)
Neural Space Mapping optimization for EM-based design (2000)
Space Mapping Optimization exploiting surrogates (2000)
First International Workshop on Surrogate Modelling and Space Mapping for Engineering Optimization (2000)
Neural Inverse Space Mapping (NISM) EM optimization (2001)
Expanded Space Mapping Design Framework (ESMDF) exploiting preassigned parameters (2001)
SMX—A novel object-oriented engineering optimization system (2001)
broadband physics-based modeling of microwave passive devices through frequency mapping (2001)
yield driven EM optimization using Space Mapping-based neuromodels (2001)
Space Mapping crashworthiness design of Saab 9.3 (Linköping University, 2001)
EM-based optimization exploiting Partial Space Mapping (PSM) and exact sensitivities (2002)
Implicit Space Mapping (ISM) EM-based modeling and design exploiting preassigned parameters (2002)
introduction of Space Mapping to mathematicians (2002)
Special Issue of Optimization and Engineering on Surrogate Modelling and Space Mapping for Engineering Optimization (2002)
adjoint variable method for design sensitivity analysis with the method of moments (2002)
Space Mapping optimization exploiting adjoint sensitivities (2002)
CAD of RF and microwave circuits and systems, invited paper, (2002)
Feasible Adjoint Sensitivity Technique (FAST) for EM design optimization (2002)
FAST technique for EM design exploiting the Broyden update (2003)
EM-based surrogate modeling and design exploiting implicit, frequency and output Space Mappings (2003)
Space Mapping: engineering modeling and optimization exploiting surrogates, ISMP, (2003)
Space Mapping design of dielectric resonator multiplexers (Com Dev, Canada, 2003)
Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques on EM-based Optimization of Microwave Components and Circuits (2004)
Space Mapping: the state of the art, review paper, (2004)
adjoint techniques for sensitivity analysis in high-frequency structure CAD, review paper, (2004)
response sensitivity analysis with frequency-domain full-wave electromagnetic solvers (2004)
a Space Mapping design framework (2004)
Space Mapping interpolating surrogates for highly optimized EM-based design of microwave devices (2004)
accelerated gradient based optimization using adjoint sensitivities (2004)
Implicit Space Mapping design of thick, tightly coupled conductors (Sonnet Software, 2004)
Space Mapping crashworthiness design of Saab 9.5 (Linköping University, 2005)
Space Mapping: A Knowledge Based Engineering Modeling and Optimization Methodology Exploiting Surrogates, two minisymposia, Eighth SIAM Conference on Optimization (2005)
towards a rigorous formulation of the Space Mapping technique for engineering (2005)
on the convergence of Space Mapping optimization algorithms (2005)
enhanced surrogate models exploiting Space Mapping technology for statistical design and modeling (2005)
TLM modeling and design exploiting Space Mapping (2005)
SMF, the world's first friendly system for engineering modeling, optimization and statistical analysis based on Space Mapping (2005)
Second International Workshop on Surrogate Modelling and Space Mapping for Engineering Optimization SMSMEO-06 (November 2006)

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