Professor Alex Yakovlev

Dr. Alex Yakovlev is a Professor of Computer System Design at Newcastle University and a Cofounder of Literal Labs. He is a world authority on low-power asynchronous circuit design and design automation, stemming back to his PhD research in St. Petersburg in the 1980s in the lab of Victor Varshavsky; Varshavsky's own mentor was Mikhail Tsetlin, from whose work the Tsetlin Machine is derived. Since then, he has published over 700 research papers and 8 monographs, and has co-invented Signal Transition Graphs (STGs), a model for asynchronous logic design widely used in academia and industry. At Newcastle, since 2000 he has been Head of the Microsystems Group and Founder of the Asynchronous Systems Lab, with over 70 PhD alumni. His team is well-known for its contributions in designing asynchronous circuits, concurrent systems, Petri nets, metastability and synchronizers, and artificial intelligence and machine learning hardware. His most recent work is in the fields of electromagnetic computing and circuit design for machine learning based on Tsetlin automata. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Select publications by Alex Yakovlev

Professor Alex Yakovlev has contributed to the authorship of the following papers relevant to Literal Labs' technology.