DAC 2016 | General & Society Awards

Dr. Walden Rhines    Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corporation Wilsonville, Oregon.

Dr. Rhines is being recognized for growing the EDA and integrated circuit (IC) design industries thorugh his efforts as a leading voice of EDA and for pioneering the evolution of IC design to system-on-chip (SoC) design.

Prof. Swaroop Ghosh    University of South Florida

In recognition of a junior faculty member who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation.

Dr. Zheng Zhang    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In recognition of an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that makes the most substantial contribution to the theory and/or application in the field of electronic design automation.Dr. Zheng Zhang – “Uncertainty Quantification for Integrated Circuits and Microelectromechanical Systems,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor Luca Daniel.

Soha Hassoun    Tufts University

This annual award, named for Marie R. Pistilli, the former organizer of DAC, recognizes individuals who have visibly helped advance women in Electronic Design.

Chandu Visweswariah    IBM
Kaushik Ravindran    National Instruments
Kerim Kalafala    IBM
Steven G. Walker    IBM
Sambasivan Narayan    IBM

For pioneering contributions to statistical static timing analysis.C. Visweswariah, K. Ravindran, K. Kalafala, S. G. Walker, S. Narayan, “First-Order Incremental Block-Based Statistical Timing Analysis.” Proc. of the 41st Design Automation Conference, pp. 331 – 336, June 2004.

Naehyuck Chang    KAIST

For contributions to low-power computing systems.

Tei-Wei Kuo    Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica

For contributions to performance and reliability enhancement of flash-memory storage systems.

Kevin Skadron    University of Virginia

For contributions in power and thermal-aware modeling, design and benchmarking of microprocessors, including GPUs.

Dr. Steven Levitan    University of Pittsburgh

In recognition of a lifetime of devoted service to ACM SIGDA and the Electronic Design Automation community

Chung-Wei Lin    UC Berkeley
Bowen Zheng    UC Riverside
Qi Zhu    UC Riverside
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli    UC Berkeley

"Security-Aware Design Methodology and Optimization for Automotive Systems" Vol. 21, Issue 1, Nov. 2015.

Anne Cirkel    Mentor Graphics

For outstanding service to the EDA community as DAC General Chair in 2015.

Krithi Ramamritham    

For outstanding service to the EDA community as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters from 2011 to 2015.

Xiaobo Sharon Hu    University of Notre Dame

For outstanding service to the EDA community as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters from 2011 to 2015.

Jiang Hu    Texas A&M; University

For contributions to gate, interconnect and clock network optimization in VLSI circuits.

Peng Li    Texas A&M; University

For contributions to the analysis and modeling of integrated circuits and systems.

Chris Rowen    Cadence Design Systems

For leadership in the development of microprocessors and reduced instruction set computers.

Shupeng Sun    Google
Xin Li    Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Hongzhou Liu    Cadence Design Systems
Ben Gu    Cadence Design Systems

“Fast Statistical Analysis of Rare Circuit Failure Events via Scaled-Sigma Sampling for High-Dimensional Variation Space,” Vol. 34, Issue 7, pp. 1096 - 1109, July 2015.

Nicole Amoako    Columbia University

The objective of the P.O. Pistilli Undergraduate Scholarship for Advancement in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering is to increase the pool of professionals in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science from under-represented groups (female, African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and disabled students). In 1989, ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) began providing the program. DAC normally funds a $4000 scholarship, renewable up to five years, to graduating high school seniors who have a 3.00 GPA or better (on a 4.00 scale).

Chris C.N. Chu    Iowa State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

For advancing EDA technology in the areas of Physical Optimization and Placement.