Upcoming Events Women in Engineering: Transforming the Innovation Paradigm Location: DAC 2022 - San Francisco, CA, USA Date: Monday, 11 July 2022 Time: 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT Event Type: DAC Pavilion Panel Moderator: Ann Steffora Mutscher - Semiconductor Engineering In the past decade, women have made enormous strides in the engineering workforce but much more opportunity lies ahead. What are the positive outcomes that women engineers bring to design and development? What hurdles remain? What potential lies ahead? How do we encourage and grow the next generation of women engineers? Join us for an insightful panel with key women in engineering who will discuss the challenges and opportunities they’ve experienced in their careers, what inspires them, and where they see the opportunities and growth in the future for women in engineering. REGISTER for DAC Women in Technology Reception Location: DAC 2022 - San Francisco, CA, USA Date: Monday, 11 July 2022 Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT Event Type: Networking Reception To attend register for DAC 2022. REGISTER for DAC Past Events Forum on Advancing Diversity in EDA (DivEDA) Date: Friday, 18 March 2022 Time: 18:30 - 20:30 CET Session chair: Ayse K Coskun, Boston University, US Session co-chair: Nele Mentens, KU Leuven, BE Panellists: Lejla Batina, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Michaela Blott, Xilinx, IE Andreia Cathelin, STMicroelectronics, FR Marian Verhelst, KU Leuven, BE The 3rd Advancing Diversity in EDA (DivEDA) forum is co-sponsored by IEEE CEDA and ACM SIGDA. The goal of DivEDA is to help facilitate women and underrepresented minorities (URM) to advance their careers in academia and industry, and hence, to help increase diversity in the EDA community. A more diverse community will then help accelerate innovation in the EDA ecosystem and benefit societal progress. Through an interactive medium, our aim is to provide practical tips to women and URM on how to succeed and to overcome possible hurdles in their career growth, while at the same time, connecting senior and junior researchers to enable a growing diverse community. We are excited to build upon earlier diversity-focused efforts in EDA and create a venue that aims to make a difference. Prior DivEDA editions were held at DATE’18 and DAC’19. This year’s forum will be held as a single 2-hours virtual session, including a 1-hour panel followed by smaller group mentoring and Q&A sessions. The topic of the forum is “Addressing career challenges during the pandemic: work-life balance, networking, and more”. Registration to the event is free of charge. DATE 2022 2019 DivEDA at DAC in Las Vegas! ADVANCING DIVERSITY IN EDA Location: Co-located with DAC’19 in Las Vegas Date: June 3, 2019 Time: 14:00 – 18:00 Organizers: Chengmo Yang, University of Delaware Ayse Coskun, Boston University Time Session 14:00 – 14:15 Welcome and Introduction: Chengmo Yang, University of Delaware 14:15 – 14:45 Keynote: Advancing Design Automation for Biological Engineering Speaker: Soha Hassoun, Tufts University Introduction: Chengmo Yang, University of Delaware Analyzing and exploiting biochemical features has shown great promise in advancing our understanding of biological systems and engineering synthetic systems that produce commercially useful biomolecules, including polyesters, biofuels and therapeutic natural products. In this talk, I will describe how I used familiar EDA concepts, e.g., synthesis and technology mapping, to advance the design of biological systems. I will also explain how deep learning can be applied to graph-structured biochemical data to predict undocumented biochemical interactions. I will conclude by highlighting a few personal experiences (successes and challenges) that shaped my journey from EDA to Bio Design Automation. Soha Hassoun is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and also in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts. Soha received the BSEE degree from South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, the Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. She was an integrated circuit designer with the Microprocessor Design Group, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, MA, 1988-1991, and worked as a consultant to several EDA companies including Mentor Graphics and Carbon Design Automation. Her current research interests are in using machine learning to advance Systems Biology and Metabolic Engineering. Dr. Hassoun was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and several awards from ACM/SIGDA for her service, including the Distinguished Service Award in 2000 and 2007, and the 2002 Technical Leadership Award. She held executive and technical leadership positions for several conferences and workshops, including DAC, ICCAD, IWLS, and TAU. She is a fellow of Tau Beta Pi, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM. 14:45 – 15:30 Panel 1: Negotiating: Practical Strategies for Women and URM in Tech Moderator: Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame Panelists: Iris Bahar, Brown University Anne Cirkel, Mentor Graphics Ian Harris, University of California, Irvine Tajana Rosing, University of California, San Diego This panel discusses negotiation in the EDA industry and academia at various job levels, including for addressing the gender and minority pay gap, when seeking promotions, or for increasing personal visibility at the workplace and in the community. The panelists will provide practical strategies as well as their broader insights and experiences. 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 – 16:45 Panel 2: Work-Life Balance: Myth or Reality? Moderator: Seda Ogrenci-Memik, Northwestern University Panelists: Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan Agnieszka Dubaj, IEEE CEDA Helen Li, Duke University Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore This panel discusses observations, challenges, and methods regarding work-life balance, seeking answers to questions such as: What does balance mean at different stages of life and career? How do work-life balance and personal goals interact? Are there better (or worse) ways for time management? 16:45 – 17:30 Panel 3: Job Hunting and Breaking the Glass Ceiling Moderator: Cristiana Bolchini, Politecnico di Milano Panelists: Patrick Groeneveld, Stanford University Christopher Harris, Auburn University Farinaz Koushanfar, University of California, San Diego Xue Lin, Northeastern University This panel discusses the opportunities, challenges, and obstacles experienced by women and URM in the job-hunting process both in academia and in industry, discussing topics related to better ways of presenting oneself, challenges and strategies with applications and reference letters, how to demonstrate strengths in phone or onsite interviews, how to decide on competing job offers, and more. 17:30 – 18:00 Speed Mentoring Session This structured mentoring session will match each mentee with a few mentors throughout the session, with the goals of getting quick tips and feedback, as well as identifying good mentor-mentee matches for longer-term mentorship. 18:00 Closing Remarks, followed by DAC Reception This event is jointly sponsored by IEEE CEDA and ACM SIGDA. 2018 IEEE WIE Forum USA East - Call for Papers and Participation Dear Esteemed IEEE Members, We are thrilled to chair the 2018 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Forum USA East to be held on November 29 through December 1, 2018, in White Plains, New York. Following the great tradition of IEEE WIE Forum USA East, once again, we are welcoming a group of influential and accomplished women in technology to our program who would be inspiring you with their invaluable insights, personal journey, and lessons learned. Our 2018 program once again is focused on three tracks, Innovation, Empowerment, and Leadership. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in any of the tracks and learn firsthand from the speakers and panelists. We continue to embrace encouraging more women to pursue careers in the STEM field and to focus on retaining those that are in the field. We welcome your active sponsorship, and participation in our program and look forward to welcoming you to the White Plains area. For more information on the sponsorship levels and career fair, please visit: http://sites.ieee.org/wie-forum-usa-east-2018/files/2018/03/PatronGuide-2018-PDF.pdf Call for Papers and Participation Topics: • Innovation: Emerging/Future/Disruptive Technical & Entrepreneurial • Development: communication skills in written and spoken word, effective dialog • Empowerment: Women as leaders in education, industry, and government • Work-Life balance: Family systems traditions and changes • Mentoring female leaders • Leadership development • Exploring the attrition gap • Panels, workshops, and hands-on demonstrations Key Dates: • Deadline for all submissions 07/25/2018 • Decision notification date 09/05/2018 • Final Announcement 10/03/2018 Please visit our website for more info: http://sites.ieee.org/wie-forum-usa-east-2018/. Sincerely, Dr. Charlotte Blair, Co-Chair IEEE WIE Forum USA East [email protected] Maryam Rahmani, CISSP, Co-Chair IEEE WIE Forum USA East [email protected] Advancing Diversity in EDA This is a CEDA-sponsored event Date: 2018-03-19 Time: 14:00-18:00 Location / Room: Seminar 1 (International Congress Center, Dresden, Germany) Organizers Ayse Coskun, Boston University, US (Contact Ayse Coskun) Eli Bozorgzadeh, Univ. of California, Irvine, US (Contact Eli Bozorgzadeh) The goal of this event is to help facilitate women and underrepresented minorities (URM) to advance their careers in academia and industry, and consequently, to help increase diversity in the EDA community. Through an interactive medium, our aim is to provide practical tips to women and URM on how to succeed and overcome potential hurdles in their career growth, while at the same time, connecting senior and junior researchers to ignite longer-term mentoring relationships. Please register for this event in line with your online registration to the DATE conference: https://www.date-conference.com/registration. Agenda Time Label Session 14:00 FM04.1 Welcome and Introduction Organizers: Ayse Coskun, Boston University, US, Contact Ayse Coskun Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, University of California, Irvine, US, Contact Eli Bozorgzadeh 14:15 FM04.2 Keynote: "VLSI Design Methods for Low Power Encryption" Speaker: Ingrid Verbauwhede, KU Leuven and UCLA, BE, Contact Ingrid Verbauwhede In this talk, I will present the evolution in research on hardware security. I will also discuss current hot hardware security research topics going forward. This title also reflects my start in academia. It was the title of my very first NSF grant funded in a call on EDA "Design Automation for Micro and Nano Systems". I will use this and other examples to show how to survive in a research environment which might not be ready for either of them: women nor the need for hardware security. 14:45 FM04.3 Panel 1: Mastering Your Leadership Skills Moderator: Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, University of California, Irvine, US, Contact Eli Bozorgzadeh Panelists: X. Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, US, Contact X. Sharon Hu Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology, US, Contact Marilyn Wolf Nuria Llin, Texas Instruments, US, Contact Nuria Llin Cristiana Bolchini, Politecnico di Milano, IT, Contact Cristiana Bolchini This panel focuses on leadership development in academic and industry settings in EDA. Panel will address topics such as strategies for increasing upward mobility particularly for women and URM; developing leadership skills to create an innovative, productive, and inclusive environment; various alternative career paths towards inspirational leadership. 15:30 FM04.4 Coffee Break 16:00 FM04.5 Panel 2: Negotiating: Practical Strategies for Women and URM in Tech Moderator: Ingrid Verbauwhede, KU Leuven and UCLA, BE, Contact Ingrid Verbauwhede Panelists: Ian Harris, University of Californa Irvine, US, Contact Ian Harris Aida Todri-Sanial, LIRMM, FR, Contact Aida Todri-Sanial This panel addresses various aspects of negotiation in EDA industry and academia at different job levels, including regarding the gender and minority pay gap, when seeking promotions, or for increasing personal visibility at the workplace. The panelists will provide practical strategies as well as broader insights. 16:45 FM04.6 Panel 3: Work-Life Balance: Myth or Reality? Moderator: Hai Li, University of Pittsburgh, US, Contact Hai Li Panelists: Nele Mentens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE, Contact Nele Mentens Chengmo Yang, University of Delaware, US, Contact Chengmo Yang Laura Pozzi, USI Lugano, CH, Contact Laura Pozzi This panel discusses observations, challenges, and methods regarding work-life balance, seeking answers to questions such as: What does balance mean at different stages of life and career? How do work-life balance and personal goals interact? Are there better (or worse) ways for time management? 17:30 FM04.7 Speed Mentoring Session This structured mentoring session will match each mentee with a few mentors throughout the session, with the goals of getting quick tips and feedback, as well as identifying good mentor-mentee matches for longer-term mentorship. 18:00 FM04.8 Closing Remarks, followed by DATE Reception
