Outstanding Service Recognition

CEDA's Outstanding Service Recognition is presented to volunteers for exceptional commitment and service to the EDA community.

Prize:

Engraved plaque

Presentation:

Presented at major CEDA conferences.

Eligibility:

Service as former General Chair of major CEDA conference.

Recipients

2020

David Pan

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Biography

David Z. Pan is a Professor and holder of Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include bidirectional AI and IC interactions, electronic design automation, design for manufacturing, hardware security, and CAD for analog/mixed-signal ICs and emerging technologies. He has published over 400 refereed journal/conference papers and 8 US patents. He has served in many journal editorial boards and conference committees, including various leadership roles such as ICCAD 2019 General Chair, ASP-DAC 2017 TPC Chair, and ISPD 2008 General Chair. He has received many awards, including SRC Technical Excellence Award, 19 Best Paper Awards (ISPD 2020, ASP-DAC 2020, DAC 2019, GLSVLSI 2018, VLSI Integration 2018, HOST 2017, SPIE 2016, ISPD 2014, ICCAD 2013, ASP-DAC 2012, ISPD 2011, IBM Research 2010 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in CS/EE/Math, ASP-DAC 2010, DATE 2009, ICICDT 2009, SRC Techcon in 1998, 2007, 2012 and 2015), DAC Top 10 Author Award in Fifth Decade, ASP-DAC Frequently Cited Author Award, Communications of ACM Research Highlights, ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Award (4 times), and many international CAD contest awards. He has graduated 35 Ph.D. students who have won many awards, including First Place of ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals (twice, in 2018 and 2021), ACM/SIGDA Student Research Competition Gold Medal (x3), ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in EDA Award (x2), and EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award (x2). He is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE.

Affiliation(s)

University of Texas at Austin

United States

For outstanding service to the EDA community as ICCAD General Chair in 2019

2019

X. Sharon Hu

DAC 2018 General Chair

Soonhoi Ha

ESWeek 2018 General Chair

R. Iris Bahar

ICCAD 2018 General Chair

Jan Madsen

DATE 2018 General Chair

Youngsoo Shin

ASP-DAC 2018 General Chair

2018

Naofumi Takagi

ASPDAC 2017 General Chair

David Atienza

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

David Atienza Alonso received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Complutense Univ. of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and IMEC, Belgium, in 2001 and 2005. Currently, he is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research interests include system-level design methodologies for high-performance multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems, including new 2-D/3-D thermal-aware design for MPSoCs and many-core servers, ultra-low power system architectures for wireless body sensor nodes and edge computing, HW/SW reconfigurable systems, dynamic memory optimizations, and network-on-chip design. He is a co-author of more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, several book chapters, and eight U.S. patents in these fields. He has earned several best paper awards and he is (or has been) an Associate Editor of IEEE TC, IEEE D&T, IEEE T-TCAD, IEEE T-SUSC and Elsevier Integration. He was the Technical Programme Chair of IEEE/ACM DATE 2015 and General Programme Chair of IEEE/ACM DATE 2017. Dr. Atienza received the DAC Under-40 Innovators Award in 2018, the IEEE TCCPS Mid-Career Award in 2018, an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016, the IEEE CEDA Early Career Award in 2013, the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2012, and a Faculty Award from Sun Labs at Oracle in 2011. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Member.

Affiliation(s)

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Switzerland

DATE 2017 General Chair

Michael McNamara

DAC 2017 General Chair

Lothar Thiele

ESWeek 2017 General Chair