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Mark Law (electrical engineer)

American engineer

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Source revisionAug 31, 2026
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Mark Law is an American electrical engineer. He is a distinguished professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida.

Law attended Iowa State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree. He then attended Stanford University where he earned his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Law was director the University of Florida honors program from 2014 to 2022.

Awards and recognition

Dr. Law was named an IEEE Fellow in 1998 for his contributions to integrated circuit process modeling and simulation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Law (electrical engineer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.