Outstanding Service Recognition

Yao-Wen Chang

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Biography

Yao-Wen Chang received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1996, respectively.

He is an IEEE Fellow and the IEEE CEDA President-elect (2018-2019) and will be the President (2020-2021). Currently, he is Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs (副教務長), NTU, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Development, NTU, Director of the Digital Learning Center, NTU, and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan. He was an associate dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 2012-2016 and the director of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering of NTU from 2010 to 2013. Dr. Chang was a visiting professor of Waseda University (早稻田大學) in Japan from 2005 to 2010 and a visiting scholar of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014. He was a 2nd Lieutenant during his compulsory military service from 1988 to 1990, a Research Assistant in the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan from 1990 to 1991, and a Teaching/Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin from 1992 to 1996. In the summers of 1994 and 1995, he was a Research Staff Member in the VLSI Design Group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York and a teaching assistant in the VLSI Design Automation Group at IBM, Austin, Texas, respectively. From 1996 to 2001, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. His current research interests include electronic design automation (with emphases on physical design and manufacturability) and combinatorial optimization. He has been working very closely with the semiconductor industry on projects and has co-authored a book on routing (Springer, 2007), co-edited a book on electronic design automation (Morgan Kaufmann, 2009; 934 pages), and published about 300 ACM/IEEE conference/journal papers in these areas, including a few highly cited works on floorplanning, placement, routing, manufacturability, and FPGA. His NTUplace3 placer was the core engine of the popular Digital Custom Placer (in Laker) of Synopsys. His NTUplace4 is the core engine of Maxeda’s MaxPlacer, a 3-time champion placer (DAC’12, ICCAD’13, and ISPD’15 Placement Contests). He was ranked #1 worldwide among 40K+ researchers by the Microsoft Academic Search Database for Recent Five-Year Citations in the Hardware and Architecture Domain during November 2011 -- March 2012.

Dr. Chang received four awards at the 50th ACM/IEEE DAC in 2013 for the 1st Most Papers in the 5th Decade (34 DAC papers in the 5th decade; #1 worldwide), Most Prolific Author (at least 6 papers) in a Single Year (2012, 2013), DAC Prolific Author Award (40 Club; now 62 papers, the #2 all-time DAC prolific author), one of the Longest Publication Streaks (15 years from 1999 to 2013; now 20 years, the #2 all-time DAC history). Dr. Chang is a 1st-place winner of six recent major ACM/IEEE EDA contests, including the 2015 ACM ISPD Blockage-Aware Detailed Routing-Driven Placement Contest, the 2013 IEEE CAD Contest @ ICCAD (Legalization and Detailed Placement), the 2012 ACM/IEEE DAC Routability-Driven Placement Contest, the 2012 ACM ISPD Discrete Gate Sizing Contest, the 2011 IEEE CEDA PATOS Timing Analysis Contest, and the 2009 ACM ISPD Clock Network Synthesis Contest. He has also received 18 other top-3 contest awards. He is a recipient of nine Best Paper Awards (2017 ACM/IEEE DAC, 2010 and 1995 IEEE ICCD, etc.), the 2007 IEEE/ACM ICCAD Professor Margarida Jacome Memorial Award, and two Best-in-Track Papers at the 2017 IEEE/ACM ICCAD. He has received 24 Best Paper Award Nominations from top international conferences, including DAC (7 times), ICCAD (4 times), and ISPD (5 times). He has received many research awards, such as the 2007, 2010, and 2013 Distinguished Research Awards (highest honor), Contract Research Fellow (2016--2018), and the 2004 Dr. Wu Ta You Memorial Award, all from Ministry of Science and Technology (formerly National Science Council) of Taiwan, and the 2010, 2012, and 2013 IBM Faculty Awards, the 2009 Distinguished EE Professor from the CIEE, the 2004 MXIC Young Chair Professorship from the MXIC Education Foundation, the 2017 TECO Award from the TECO Technology Foundation, and the 2015 MXIC Chair Professorship and the inaugural Research Achievement Award from National Taiwan University in 2004, distinguished teaching award in 2013 (2013-2018; highest honor for top 1% teachers)/excellent teaching awards (eight times in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011) from National Taiwan University, and excellent teaching award from National Chiao Tung University in 2000 (ranked #1 in the Department for this inaugural award).

Dr. Chang has served as an editor / associate editor of premier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) 2008 -- 2013, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI) 2015-now, IEEE Design & Test of Computers 2012 -- 2014 and 2016-now (as an interviews editor), IET Computers & Digital Techniques, the international Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE), etc. He has served as the steering committee/general/program chairs of ISPD, and general/program chairs of ICCAD, and program chair of ASP-DAC and FPT, and on the IEEE CEDA and ICCAD Executive Committees, the ASP-DAC Steering Committee, and the technical program committees of all major EDA conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, ISPD, ASP-DAC, DATE, ICCD, GLSVLSI, VLSI-DAT, FPL, FPT, APCCAS, etc. He was the CEDA Vice President of Technical Activities 2014-2015 and Conferences 2016-2017. He received the Outstanding Service Award from IEEE CEDA in 2015 and Recognition of Service Award from ACM in 2012. He has served as the chair of the EDA Consortium of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan and an independent board director of Genesys Logic, Inc, a technical consultant of MediaTek Inc., RealTek Semiconductor Corp., and Faraday Technology Inc., and a member of the Board Governors of the Taiwan IC Design Society, a Review Committee Member of the National Science Council, and a Principal Reviewer of the SBIR projects of the Ministry of Economics Affairs, Taiwan. He co-founded the Maxeda Technology, Inc. in 2015.

Affiliation(s)

National Taiwan University

Taiwan

ICCAD 2014 General Chair

Soha Hassoun

DAC 2014 General Chair

Gerhard Fettweis

DATE 2014 General Chair

Yervant Zorian

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Biography

Dr. Yervant Zorian is a Chief Architect and Fellow at Synopsys, as well as President of Synopsys Armenia. Formerly, he was Vice President and Chief Scientist of Virage Logic, Chief Technologist at LogicVision, and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is currently the President of IEEE Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC), the founder and chair of the IEEE 1500 Standardization Working Group, the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the IEEE Design and Test of Computers and an Adjunct Professor at University of British Columbia. He served on the Board of Governors of Computer Society and CEDA, was the Vice President of IEEE Computer Society, and the General Chair of the 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC) and several other symposia and workshops.

Dr. Zorian holds 35 US patents, has authored four books, published over 350 refereed papers and received numerous best paper awards. A Fellow of the IEEE since 1999, Dr. Zorian was the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Industrial Pioneer Award for his contribution to BIST, and the 2006 recipient of the IEEE Hans Karlsson Award for diplomacy. He received the IEEE Distinguished Services Award for leading the TTTC, the IEEE Meritorious Award for outstanding contributions to EDA, and in 2014, the Republic of Armenia's National Medal of Science.

He received an MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California, a PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and an MBA from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Affiliation(s)

Synopsys, Inc.

United States

DAC 2013 General Chair

Enrico Macii

DATE 2013 General Chair

Jörg Henkel

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Prof. Jörg Henkel is with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he is directing the Chair for Embedded Systems CES. Before, he was a Senior Research Staff Member at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. He received his PhD from Braunschweig University with "Summa cum Laude".

Prof. Henkel has/is organizing various embedded systems and low power ACM/IEEE conferences/symposia as General Chair and Program Chair and was a Guest Editor on these topics in various journals like the IEEE Computer Magazine.

He was Program Chair of CODES'01, RSP'02, ISLPED’06, SIPS'08, CASES'09, Estimedia'11, VLSI Design'12, ICCAD’12, PATMOS’13, NOCS’14 and served as General Chair for CODES'02, ISLPED’09, Estimedia’12, ICCAD’13 and ESWeek'16. He is/has been a steering committee member of major conferences in the embedded systems field like at ICCAD, ESWeek, ISLPED, Codes+ISSS, CASES and is/has been an editorial board member of various journals like the IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAD, IEEE TMSCS, ACM TCPS, JOLPE, etc.

In recent years, Prof. Henkel has given more than ten keynotes at various international conferences primarily with focus on embedded systems dependability. He has given full/half-day tutorials at leading conferences like DAC, ICCAD, DATE, etc. Prof. Henkel received the 2008 DATE Best Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE/ACM William J. Mc Calla ICCAD Best Paper Award, the Codes+ISSS 2015, 2014, and 2011 Best Paper Awards, and the MaXentric Technologies AHS 2011 Best Paper Award as well as the DATE 2013 Best IP Award and the DAC 2014 Designer Track Best Poster Award. He is the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society, Germany Section, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS) for two consecutive terms.
He is an initiator and the coordinator of the German Research Foundation's (DFG) program on 'Dependable Embedded Systems' (SPP 1500). He is the site coordinator (Karlsruhe site) of the Three-University Collaborative Research Center on "Invasive Computing" (DFG TR89). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Design&Test Magazine. He holds ten US patents and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Germany

ICCAD 2013 General Chair

Alan Hu

ICCAD 2012 General Chair

Patrick Groeneveld

DAC 2012 General Chair

Wolfgang Rosenstiel

DATE 2012 General Chair

Joel Phillips

ICCAD 2011 General Chair

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2015

2014

2013

2012

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