John Bandler's Technical Achievement Milestones

The following documents John Bandler's scientific, engineering and commercial achievements, in collaboration with academic and professional colleagues and co-workers.

1960's and 1970's

1980's

1990's

2000's

2010-

• 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 (2006)

• Sensitivity analysis with electromagnetic frequency-domain simulators, including FEKO (2006)
• Space mapping for engineering optimization, SIAG/Optimization Views-and-News Special Issue on Derivative-free and Surrogate Optimization (2006)
• Optimization of spiral inductor on silicon using space mapping (2006)
• Space mapping optimization algorithms for engineering design (2006)
• Antenna design through space mapping optimization (2006)
• An automated space mapping framework (2006)
• MEFiSTo-based design exploiting space mapping (2006)
• An implicit space mapping technique for component modeling (2006)
• Space-mapping-based interpolation (2006)
• A space mapping framework for engineering optimization—theory and implementation (2006)
• Adjoint higher order sensitivities for full-wave optimization of microwave filters (2006)
• SMF—a software package for user-friendly space mapping optimization (2006)
• Space-mapping-based modeling utilizing a database and on-demand parameter extraction (2006)
• Space mapping optimization with adaptive surrogate model (2007)
• Antenna optimization through space mapping (2007)
• Neuro-space mapping for microwave design (2007)
• Device modeling using space-mapping and radial basis functions (2007)
• Controlling convergence of space-mapping algorithms (2007)
• Interpolated coarse models for microwave design optimization with space mapping (2007)
• Space-mapping approach to modeling exploiting fuzzy systems (2007)
• Space mapping with multiple coarse models for optimization of microwave components (2008)
• Space mapping optimization of microwave structures with FEKO (2008)
• A space mapping methodology for defect characterization (2008)
• Support-vector-regression-based output space-mapping for microwave device modeling (2008)
• Tuning space mapping: a novel technique for engineering design optimization (2008)
• Optimization and Engineering, Special Issue on Surrogate Modeling and Space Mapping for Engineering Optimization (2008)
• Quality assessment of coarse models and surrogates for space mapping optimization (2008)
• Space mapping optimization and modeling of microwave devices with MEFiSTo (2008)
• Space mapping with adaptive response correction for microwave design optimization (2009)
• Accelerated microwave design optimization with tuning space mapping (2009)
• Implicit space mapping with adaptive selection of preassigned parameters (2009)
• Automated tuning space mapping (2009)
• Trust-region-based convergence safeguards for space mapping design (2009)
• Tuning space mapping optimization exploiting embedded surrogate elements (2009)
• Multi-fidelity space mapping modeling of microwave devices with double coarse model processing and functional approximation (2009)
• Distributed fine model evaluation for rapid space-mapping optimisation (2009)
• Space mapping design framework exploiting tuning elements (2010)
• Implicit space mapping with adaptive selection of preassigned parameters (2010)
• Response corrected tuning space mapping for yield estimation and design centering (2010)
• Adaptively constrained parameter extraction for robust space mapping optimization (2010)
• Co-simulation based tuning space mapping with FEKO (2010)\
• Accurate modeling of microwave devices using space mapping and kriging (2010)
• Quick space mapping with variable weight coefficients (2010)
• Progress in simulator-based tuning—the art of tuning space mapping (2010)
   
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Last Updated: January 17, 2016