A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award Committee

Newton Award Committee Chair

Subhasish Mitra

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.

Affiliation(s)

Stanford University

United States

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

The Pennsylvania State University

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Newton Award Committee Member

Cristiana Bolchini

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Jason Cong

University of California, Los Angeles

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Website

Jason Cong

6 (Western U.S.)

Website

Biography

JASON CONG received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is a Chancellor’s Professor at the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles, the director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), co-director of UCLA/Peking University Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering, and co-director of the VLSI CAD Laboratory. He served as the chair the UCLA Computer Science Department from 2005 to 2008. Dr. Cong is also a distinguished visiting professor at Peking University and the director of PKU Center for Energy-Efficient Computing and Applications (CECA). Dr. Cong’s research interests include synthesis of VLSI circuits and systems, programmable systems, novel computer architectures, nano-systems, and highly scalable algorithms. He has over 350 publications in these areas, including 7 best paper awards and the 2011 ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electric Design Automation. He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in 2000 and ACM Fellow in 2008. He is the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Circuits and System (CAS) Society Technical Achievement Award “For seminal contributions to electronic design automation, especially in FPGA synthesis, VLSI interconnect optimization, and physical design automation.”

Dr. Cong has graduated 30 PhD students. A number of them are now faculty members in major research universities, including Cornell, Georgia Tech., Peking University, Purdue, SUNY Binghamton, UCLA, UIUC, and UT Austin. Four of them were co-founders, together with Dr. Cong, of two startups originated from UCLA – Aplus Design Technologies (acquired by Magma in 2003, now part of Synopsys) and AutoESL Design Technologies (acquired by Xilinx in 2011). Others are in key R&D or management positions in various companies related to the information technologies, such as Bloomberg, Broadcom, Cadence, Google, IBM, Intel, Micron, Synopsys, and Xilinx.

Affiliation(s)

University of California, Los Angeles

United States

Antun Domic

Synopsys Inc.

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Diana Marculescu

University of Texas, Austin

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong SAR China

Paul Cunningham

Cadence

Newton Award Committee Chair

Subhasish Mitra

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Newton Award Committee Member

Cristiana Bolchini

Jason Cong

Antun Domic

Diana Marculescu

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng

Paul Cunningham

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