Mary Jane Irwin

Mary Jane Irwin
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Memphis State University
AwardsACM Fellow (1996)
IEEE Fellow (1995)
NAE (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Computer Architecture, Electronic Design Automation
WorkplacesPennsylvania State University
James Robertson

Mary Jane Irwin is an emerita Evan Pugh Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1977. She is an international expert in computer architecture. Her research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems.

Irwin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for contributions to very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) architecture and automated design.

Biography

Education

Irwin received her B.S. in mathematics from Memphis State University in 1971, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1975 and 1977, respectively. Her dissertation research on the topic of computer arithmetic was supervised by Dr. James Robertson.

Career

Irwin joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor in 1977. She was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1989, and retired in 2017.

Irwin has worked in the area of application-specific architectures, including the design, implementation, and field-testing of three different board level designs—the Arithmetic Cube, the MGAP and SPARTA. With her student Robert M. Owens, they developed a suite of architecture, logic and circuit design tools, including ARTIST, PERFLEX, LOGICIAN, and DECOMPOSER.

In late 1993, Irwin worked in the area of resource-constrained systems design, including embedded systems that have limited battery life and limited memory space and sensor network systems with extremely limited resources. With colleagues she developed an architectural level power simulator, SimplePower.

Irwin's recent work is in mixed technology circuits.

On October 1, 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), and Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance announced that Irwin would receive the 2019 Phil Kaufman Award—the electronic design automation industry's highest honor—making her the first woman to receive the award.[1] In 2024, she was awarded the Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award.[2]

Other positions

Irwin is a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology, of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Fellows Selection Committee, of Microsoft Research's External Research Advisory Board, and of the National Academy of Engineering's Committee on Membership (Chair for the Class of 2012). Previously, she served as a founding co-editor-in-chief of ACM's Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and as editor-in-chief of ACM's Transactions on the Design Automation of Electronic Systems, as an elected member of the Computing Research Association's Board of Directors, of the IEEE Computer Society's Board of Governors, of ACM's Council, and as Vice President of ACM. She was also a long-time board member of the Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-W), the CRA's Committee on the Status of Women, where she is now a member emerita.

Personal life

Irwin was married in July 1966. She and her husband have one son, John, who is also a computer scientist, and two grandchildren, Kai and Milo.

Honors and awards

References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Mary Jane Irwin to Receive 2019 Phil Kaufman Award" (Press release). October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Mary Jane Irwin". IEEE Awards. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  3. ↑ "A. Nico Habermann Award". cra.org. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  4. ↑ "Mary Jane Irwin | The Grainger College of Engineering | UIUC". grainger.illinois.edu. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "2019 Phil Kaufman Award – ESD Alliance". esd-alliance.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-14. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
  6. ↑ "Abie Award Winners: Mary Jane Irwin". Anita Borg Institute. 1 October 2007.
  7. ↑ "CRA Announces 2006 Service Award Winners". Computing Research Association.
  8. 1 2 "Mary Jane Irwin - Award Winner". ACM.
  9. ↑ "Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award". Design Automation Conference. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
  10. ↑ "VLSI Transactions – Best Paper Award". IEEE CAS. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Members Directory: Dr Mary Jane Irwin". National Academy of Engineering.
  12. ↑ "Fellows: I". IEEE. Archived from the original on 23 September 2013.
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