Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska is a Polish-American

electronics engineer Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active component, active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control e ...

known for her research in

VLSI Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) c ...

circuit design. She is a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

, a member of the university's

Institute for Energy Efficiency The Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) is a research institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). IEE is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to the development of science and technologies that increase energy ef ...

, and the director of the VLSI CAD Lab at the university. Marek-Sadowska was an assistant professor at the

Warsaw University of Technology The Warsaw University of Technology ( pl, Politechnika Warszawska, lit=Varsovian Polytechnic) is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professor ...

from 1976 until 1982. In 1979, she began a visiting position at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, continued at Berkeley as a researcher, and moved to Santa Barbara in 1990. She was editor-in-chief of ''

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems ''IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems'' (sometimes abbreviated ''IEEE TCAD'' or ''IEEE Transactions on CAD'') is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the design, analysis, and use of computer ...

'' from 1993 to 1997, and in 1997, she was elected as a

Fellow of the IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

. She retired in 2017.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Polish electronics engineers American electronics engineers American women engineers Academic staff of the Warsaw University of Technology University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE American women academics 21st-century American women {{engineer-stub