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October 30, 2008
Yervant Zorian Joins AGBU Central Board of Directors
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Newly elected AGBU Central Board Member Yervant Zorian speaking at the 85th General Assembly in Aleppo, Syria.
AGBU is pleased to announce the election of Yervant Zorian to its Central Board of Directors on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the AGBU's 85th General Assembly in Aleppo, Syria.
A lifetime member of AGBU and a graduate of Aleppo's AGBU Lazar Najarian-Calouste Gulbenkian school, Zorian currently serves as the chair of AGBU Silicon Valley Chapter and the AGBU Armenian Virtual College. He is the program chair of the ArmTech Congress, and a trustee of the American University of Armenia (AUA). He holds an honorary doctorate from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
After his election to the Central Board, Zorian was invited to address the Assembly. "With great pleasure and excitement, I look forward to the opportunity to cooperate with each one of you individually and as teams in order to continue serving our nation through AGBU. And, I wish our beloved organization every success in the years to come," he said.
Yervant Zorian is the Vice President and Chief Scientist of Virage Logic Corp. Previously, Zorian was a distinguished member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and the chief technology advisor of LogicVision Inc. He serves as director on the boards of several semiconductor technology start ups, and is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia.
Zorian received an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the President of the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council and the Vice President of IEEE Computer Society. He also serves as the editor-in-chief emeritus of the Journal on Design & Test of Computers and associate editor of the Journal on Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA). He founded and chairs the IEEE 1500 embedded core test standards working group and serves on the Board of Governors of CEDA.
He has authored more than 300 scientific papers and four books, holds 18 U.S. patents, and has received numerous best scientific paper awards and Bell Labs' R&D Achievement Award. A Fellow of the IEEE, Zorian was selected by EE Times among the top 13 influencers on the semiconductor industry since the invention of transistors. He was the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Industrial Pioneer Award, and the 2006 recipient of the IEEE Hans Karlsson Award.
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