Executive Committee

President

2020 - 2021

Yao-Wen Chang

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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.

President-Elect

2020 - 2021

Gi-Joon Nam

President-Elect

IBM Research

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Immediate Past President

2020 - 2021

David Atienza

Immediate Past President

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Switzerland

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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.

Positions & Affiliations

Immediate Past President

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Switzerland

Secretary

2018 - 2021

Agnieszka Dubaj

Secretary

Intel Corp.

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Vice-President for Activities

2020 - 2021

Tsung-Yi Ho

VP Activities, ICCAD

National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Tsung-Yi Ho

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Biography

Tsung-Yi Ho (SM’10) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2005. He is a Professor with the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He has presented ten tutorials and contributed 11 special sessions in ACM/IEEE conferences, all in design automation for microfluidic biochips. His research interests include design automation and test for microfluidic biochips and nanometer integrated circuits.

Dr. Ho is the recipient of the Invitational Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Humboldt Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Hans Fischer Fellowship by the Institute of Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Awards at the VLSI Test Symposium in 2013 and the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems in 2015. He served as a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society for 2013–2015, the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Tainan Chapter for 2013–2015, and the Chair of the ACM SIGDA Taiwan Chapter for 2014–2015. He is currently an ACM Distinguished Speaker, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and an Associate Editor for the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, and the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, and the Technical Program Committees of major conferences, including the Design Automation Conference, the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference, the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, the ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Physical Design, and the International Conference on Computer Design.

Positions & Affiliations

VP Activities, ICCAD

National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

Vice-President for Awards

2018 - 2021

Subhasish Mitra

VP for Awards

Stanford University

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Subhasish Mitra

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

Subhasish Mitra is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, where he directs the Stanford Robust Systems Group and co-leads the computation focus area of the Stanford SystemX Alliance. He is also a Faculty Member with the Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University. He holds the Carnot Chair of Excellence in Nanosystems at CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France. Before joining the Stanford faculty, he was a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA. His current research interests include broadly across robust computing, nanosystems, VLSI design, validation, test, and electronic design automation, and neurosciences. He along with his students and collaborators demonstrated the first carbon nanotube computer and the first 3-D nanosystem with computation immersed in data storage. These demonstrations received widespread recognitions (cover of Nature, Research Highlight to the U.S. Congress by the National Science Foundation, highlight as “important, scientific breakthrough” by the BBC, The Economist, Electronic Engineering Times, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and numerous others worldwide). His earlier work on X-Compact test compression has been a key to cost-effective manufacturing and high-quality testing of almost all electronic systems. X-Compact and its derivatives have been implemented in widely-used commercial electronic design automation tools. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE. He received the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Design Automation/IEEE CEDA A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation (a test-of-time honor), the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Technical Excellence Award, the Intel Achievement Award (Intel's highest corporate honor), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House (the highest United States honor for early-career outstanding scientists and engineers). He along with his students published several award-winning papers at major venues, including the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, the IEEE International Test Conference, the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, and the Symposium on VLSI Technology. He was honored several times by graduating seniors for being important to them during their time at Stanford. He has served on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Science and Technology Board as an Invited Member.

Positions & Affiliations

VP for Awards

Stanford University

United States

Vice-President for Conferences

2018 - 2021

Luca Fanucci

VP Conferences

University of Pisa

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Vice-President for Finance

2018 - 2021

Cristiana Bolchini

VP Finance

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Vice-President for Initiatives

2020 - 2021

Ian O'Connor

VP Initiatives

École Centrale de Lyon

France

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Vice-President for Publications

2018 - 2021

L. Miguel Silveira

VP Publications

IST Técnico Lisboa

Portugal

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Vice-President for Publicity

2018 - 2021

Vasilis Pavlidis

VP Publicity

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Vice-President for Standards

2018 - 2021

Dennis Brophy

VP Standards

Mentor, a Siemens Business

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Vice-President for Strategy

2021 - 2021

Enrico Macii

VP for Strategy

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Young Professionals Coordinator

2020 - 2021

Qi Zhu

Young Professionals Coordinator

Northwestern University

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

Qi Zhu

4 (Central U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Qi Zhu is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Northwestern University. He was an Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor in the ECE Department at University of California, Riverside from 2011 to 2017, and a Research Scientist at the Strategic CAD Labs in Intel from 2008 to 2011. Dr. Zhu received a Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Berkeley in 2008, and a B.E. in CS from Tsinghua University in 2003. His research interests include model-based design, synthesis and verification of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of Things, CPS security, embedded and real-time systems, connected and autonomous vehicles, energy-efficient buildings and infrastructures, and system-on-chip design. He received best paper awards at Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2006, DAC 2007, International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2013, and ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) 2016. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2016, and the IEEE TCCPS (Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems) Early-Career Award in 2017. Dr. Zhu is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, and IEEE TCCPS Newsletter. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE TC-VLSI Newsletter and ACM SIGDA e-Newsletter, and as a Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS). He is the Conference Chair of IEEE TCCPS. Dr. Zhu has served on the technical program committee and as organizer for a number of conferences in design automation, cyber-physical systems, embedded systems, and real-time systems, including DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, ICCPS, CODES+ISSS, RTSS, RTAS, ICESS, GLVLSI, SAC, SIES, MEMOCODE, SAMOS, FDL, etc. He received the ACM SIGDA Service Award in 2015.

Affiliation

Young Professionals Coordinator

Northwestern University

United States

President

Yao-Wen Chang

President-Elect

Gi-Joon Nam

Immediate Past President

David Atienza

Secretary

Agnieszka Dubaj

Vice-President for Activities

Tsung-Yi Ho

Vice-President for Awards

Subhasish Mitra

Vice-President for Conferences

Luca Fanucci

Vice-President for Finance

Cristiana Bolchini

Vice-President for Initiatives

Ian O'Connor

Vice-President for Publications

L. Miguel Silveira

Vice-President for Publicity

Vasilis Pavlidis

Vice-President for Standards

Dennis Brophy

Vice-President for Strategy

Enrico Macii

Young Professionals Coordinator

Qi Zhu

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