Executive Commitee | IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation

President

Gi-Joon Nam

IBM Research

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

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President-Elect

L. Miguel Silveira

INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa

Portugal

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Immediate Past President

Yao-Wen Chang

National Taiwan University

Taiwan

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Yao-Wen Chang

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Yao-Wen Chang received the B. S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, all in computer science. He is currently the Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, NTU. His current research interest lies in electronic design automation, emphasizing physical design and manufacturability. He has co-authored one textbook on EDA (Morgan Kaufmann, 2009) and one research book on routing (Springer, 2007), 17 U.S. patents and seven Taiwan patents, and over 340 ACM/IEEE conference and journal papers in the above areas, including highly cited works on floorplanning, placement, routing, design for manufacturability, heterogeneous integration, and FPGA. He was named among The World’s Top 2% Scientists identified by Stanford University and ranked #1 worldwide among 40K+ researchers by the Microsoft Academy for Recent Five-Year Citations in the Hardware and Architecture Domain during 2011/2012 before the system retired.

Dr. Chang was a recipient of four research awards at the 50th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2013 for the First Most Papers (34 DAC papers; #1 worldwide) in the Fifth Decade (still the first prolific author in the sixth decade), etc., 2020 ASP-DAC Prolific Author Award, the first place winner of six recent ACM/IEEE contests, 21-time winner of the DAC/ICCAD/ISPD contests, eleven best paper awards (including one from DAC’17), 23 Best Paper Award nominations from DAC/ICCAD/ISPD, etc., the Distinguished Research Award (highest honor) from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (three times; retired from this award), the IBM Faculty Awards (three times), the 2020 Distinguished Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, the 2018 Micron Teacher Award, the 2017 TECO Award, and the 2015 MXIC Chair Professorship, two distinguished teaching awards for ten years (the highest honor for top 1% teachers), and nine excellent teaching awards from NTU.

Dr. Chang has served on the Executive Committee of the IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA) since 2012 and was its president 2020/2021. He is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Award and the 2012 ACM Recognition of Service Award. Dr. Chang has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS, the IEEE DESIGN AND TEST OF COMPUTERS, etc. He has served as the General Chairs of ICCAD and ISPD, the Program Chairs of ASP-DAC, FPT, ICCAD, and ISPD, the Steering Committee Chair of ISPD, and the Executive/Steering Committees of ASP-DAC, DAC, ICCAD, and ISPD. He has served as the Chair of the EDA Consortium of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, an Independent Board Director of Genesys Logic, and a Technical Consultant of Faraday, MediaTek, and RealTek. He co-founded the Maxeda Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2015, which is a profit-earning EDA vendor providing the leading commercial macro placer MaxPlace.

Affiliation(s)

National Taiwan University

Taiwan

President (2020-2021)

IEEE CEDA

Secretary

Elena-Ioana Vatajelu

CNRS

TIMA Laboratory

France

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Vice-President for Activities

Tsung-Yi Ho

National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Tsung-Yi Ho

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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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.

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National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

Vice-President for Awards

Georges Gielen

KU Leuven

Belgium

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Georges Gielen

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Georges G.E. Gielen received the MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He currently is a Full Professor in the MICAS research division at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven. From August 2013 until July 2017 he served as Vice-Rector for the Group of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology. He was visiting professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Since 2020 he is Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation, including modeling, simulation, optimization, and synthesis as well as testing. He is a frequently invited speaker/lecturer and coordinator/partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area, including an ERC Advanced Grant. He has (co-)authored 10 books and more than 700 publications in edited books, international journals, and conference proceedings. He is a 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature, and Arts in the discipline of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE since 2002 and received the IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award in 2015 and the IEEE CAS Charles Desoer award in 2020, as well as the EDAA Achievement Award in 2021. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.

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KU Leuven

Belgium

Vice-President for Conferences

Cristiana Bolchini

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Vice-President for Finance

Marina Zapater

University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)

Switzerland

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Vice-President for Initiatives

Ian O'Connor

École Centrale de Lyon

France

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Vice-President for Publications

Jörg Henkel

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Germany

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Jörg Henkel

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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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

Vice-President for Publicity

Agnieszka Dubaj

Intel Corp.

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

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Vice-President for Standards

Aparna Dey

6 (Western U.S.)

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Vice-President for Strategy

Enrico Macii

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Young Professionals Coordinator

Qi Zhu

Northwestern University

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

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Qi Zhu

4 (Central U.S.)

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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.

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Northwestern University

United States

Executive Committee

President

Gi-Joon Nam

President-Elect

L. Miguel Silveira

Immediate Past President

Yao-Wen Chang

Secretary

Elena-Ioana Vatajelu

Vice-President for Activities

Tsung-Yi Ho

Vice-President for Awards

Georges Gielen

Vice-President for Conferences

Cristiana Bolchini

Vice-President for Finance

Marina Zapater

Vice-President for Initiatives

Ian O'Connor

Vice-President for Publications

Jörg Henkel

Vice-President for Publicity

Agnieszka Dubaj

Vice-President for Standards

Aparna Dey

Vice-President for Strategy

Enrico Macii

Young Professionals Coordinator

Qi Zhu

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