IEEE CEDA Distinguished Service Award

To recognize an individual who has provided outstanding service to the IEEE Council that has had a significant benefit to the EDA community. All contributors to CEDA can make nominations.

Historical Background:

The IEEE CEDA Distinguished Service Award honors contributors to the IEEE Council on EDA with outstanding service to the benefit and advancement of the council including contributions in the following areas: conferences and meetings, publications, editors, administrative committee, council leadership, or other distinguished service and activities. Factors that will be considered for the award selection are: impact of service and contributions to the council, leadership, innovation, activity, duration, breadth of participation and cooperation.

Prize:

$1,000 and an engraved plaque.

Funding:

The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).

Presentation:

The recipient can select one of the CEDA sponsored conferences as the venue where the award will be presented.

Basis for Judging:

The Award Committee will judge nominees according to their contributions to the IEEE Council on EDA. Factors that will be considered are: impact of service and contributions to the council, leadership, innovation, activity, duration, breadth of participation and cooperation. A Council President shall not be eligible until two years after he/she has completed the term of Past President.

Eligibility:

Contributors to the IEEE Council on EDA with outstanding service in one or more of the following areas: Conferences and meetings, publications, editors, administrative committee, council leadership, or other distinguished service and activities.

Nomination Details:

Nominations are accepted on a rolling basis.

The supporting material for the nomination must include:

Nominee biographical information.
A proposed citation (which the award committee may adjust).
Description of the outstanding service in the areas listed above.
At least two references/endorsements from another active CEDA contributor.

Nomination Form:

Nominate for this Award

Recipients

2019

Donatella Sciuto

For distinguished service to the EDA community and the IEEE Council on EDA

Sani Nassif

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Biography

Sani R. Nassif received his Bachelors degree with Honors from the American University of Beirut in 1980, and his Masters and PhD degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 and 1986 respectively. He then worked for ten years at Bell Laboratories in the general area of technology CAD, focusing on various aspects of design and technology coupling including device modeling, parameter extraction, worst-case analysis, design optimization and circuit simulation. While at Bell Labs, working under Larry Nagel -the original author of Spice, he led a large team in the development of an in-house circuit simulator, named Celerity, which became the main circuit simulation tool at Bell Labs. In January 1996, he joined the then newly formed IBM Austin Research Laboratory (ARL), which was founded with a specific focus on research for the support of IBM's Power computer systems. After twelve years of management, he stepped down to focus on technical work again with an emphasis on applying techniques developed in the VLSI-EDA area to IBM's Smarter Planet initiative. In January 2014 Sani founded Radyalis, a company focused on applying VLSI-EDA techniques to the field of Cancer Radiation Therapy. In October 2015, Radyalis announced that it has closed a deal with LSI software to license its flagship Monte Carlo particle therapy simulator. Sani has authored one book, many book chapters, and numerous conference and journal publications. He has delivered many tutorials at top conferences and has received Best Paper awards from TCAD, ICCAD, DAC, ISQED, ICCD and SEMICON, authored invited papers to ISSCC, IEDM, IRPS, ISLPED, HOTCHIPS, and CICC. He has given Keynote and Plenary presentations at Sasimi, ESSCIRC, BMAS, SISPAD, SEMICON, VLSI-SOC, PATMOS, NMI, ASAP, GLVLSI, TAU, and ISVLSI. He is an IEEE Fellow, was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, a member of the ACM and the AAAS, and an IBM master inventor with more than 75 patents. Dr. Nassif was the president of the IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA) for 2014 and 2015, was the General chair of the ICCAD conference in 2008, and has served on the technical program committees of ICCAD, DAC, and other conferences. He received the Penrose award (given to one outstanding graduate from the American University of Beirut), the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff award from Bell Labs, three Research Accomplishment Awards from IBM, and the SRC Mahboob-Khan Outstanding Mentor awards from the SRC.

Affiliation(s)

Radyalis

United States

For distinguished service to the EDA community and the IEEE Council on EDA

2017

William H. Joyner, Jr.

For going above and beyond the call of duty in support of CEDA's activities

2013

Rajesh K. Gupta

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

Rajesh K. Gupta (F’91) received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, in 1984, the M.S. degree in EECS from University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1994.

He is a Qualcomm Endowed Chair Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. He was a Circuit Designer with Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, as a member of three successful processor design teams and on the Computer Science Faculty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA and the University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. Regardless of the title, the focus of the research has been on methods and tools to make things better, such as, more energy-efficient and reliable, or enable others (mostly, designers and architects) to do things better. To the extent a problem area requires it, there is a focus on creating usable artifacts or at least find the limits on what is achievable in practice. His past contributions include SystemC modeling and SPARK parallelizing high-level synthesis, both of which have been incorporated into industrial practice. His publications and patents cover various aspects of embedded systems design, design automation, clock design, data-path synthesis, system-on-chip modeling, and dynamic power management. He was a Lead or a Co-Lead of DARPA-sponsored efforts under the data-intensive systems and power-aware computing and communications programs on the role of adaptation in energy-efficient system architectures. His ongoing projects are focused on efficient compositional synthesis of system-chips, microelectronic variability, accurate timing, and synchronization for the integrated systems. His current research interests include embedded,cyber-physical systems, and Internet-of-Things.

Dr. Gupta was a recipient of the Best Demonstration Paper Award at ACM BuildSys’16, the Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM DCOSS’08, and the Best Demonstration Award at IEEE/ACM IPSN/SPOTS’05 with and his students. He is a fellow of the ACM.

Affiliation(s)

University of California, San Diego

United States

For outstanding contributions to the benefit and advancement of IEEE CEDA

2010

Giovanni De Micheli

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Website

Biography

Giovanni De Micheli is a research scientist in electronics and computer science. He is credited for the invention of the Network on Chip design automation paradigm and for the creation of algorithms and design tools for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He is a Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was Director of the Electrical Engineering Institute (IEL) at EPFL from 2008 to 2019 and program leader of the Swiss Federal Nano-Tera.ch program. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), an M.S., and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983).

Prof. De Micheli is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS, and IEEE, a member of the Academia Europaea, and an International Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis for emerging technologies. He is also interested in heterogeneous platform design including electrical components and biosensors, as well as in data processing of biomedical information. He is the author of Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of ten other books and of over 900 technical publications. His citation h-index is above 100 according to Google Scholar. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IMEC (Leuven, B) and STMicroelectronics.

Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2022 ESDA-IEEE/CEDA Phil Kaufman Award, the 2019 ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award, and several other awards.

Affiliation(s)

EPFL

Switzerland

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Dick Smith

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Alfred E. Dunlop

Who was instrumental in the creation and first steps of CEDA

Recipients

2019

2017

2013

2010

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