Roster

Design Automation Technical Committee

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Design Automation TC Chair(s)

Personnel:

Vidya A. Chhabria

Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Arizona State University

6 (Western U.S.)

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Vidya A. Chhabria

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

Vidya A. Chhabria is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. She also works at Steel Perlot as a consultant. She graduated with her Ph.D. and M.Sc degrees from the University of Minnesota in 2022 and 2018. She received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (affiliated with Visveswaraya Technological University, India) in 2016. She spent her graduate research internships at Qualcomm in 2017 and NVIDIA Research (ASIC VLSI Research Group) in 2020 and 2021.

Her research interests lie in computer-aided design (CAD) for VLSI systems and primarily revolve around physical design, optimization, and analysis algorithms. She has received ICCAD Best Paper Award (2021), Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2021), Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship (2020), and Cadence Women in Technology scholarship (2020).

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Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Arizona State University

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DATC Member

Personnel:

Rhett Davis

NC State University, United States

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Rhett Davis

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Dr. Davis came to NCSU in 2002 as an Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2008. He received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2007. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) in 2012 for his research in the development of standards for electronic design automation (EDA) and his development of the FreePDK open-source, predictive process design kit. He has been an IEEE member since 1993 and became a Senior Member in 2011. He has published over 50 scholarly journal and conference articles. He has worked briefly at Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent) in Boeblingen, Germany and consulted for Chameleon Systems, Qualcomm, and BEECube. Dr. Davis' research is centered on developing methodologies, CAD tools, and circuits for systems-on-chip in emerging technologies. His interests include 3DIC design and low-power and high-performance circuit design for digital signal-processing and embedded systems.

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NC State University, United States

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Andrew Kahng

University of California, San Diego

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

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Andrew Kahng

6 (Western U.S.)

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Andrew B. Kahng received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

He is a Professor with the Computer Science Engineering Department and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California at San Diego. His current interests include IC physical design, design-manufacturing interface, combinatorial optimization, and technology roadmapping.

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University of California, San Diego

United States

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Personnel:

Dr. Rongjian Liang

Research Scientist

NVIDIA

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Dr. Rongjian Liang

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Research Scientist

NVIDIA

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Design Automation TC Chair(s)

Vidya A. Chhabria

DATC Member

Rhett Davis

Andrew Kahng

Dr. Rongjian Liang

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