A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award Committee

Newton Award Committee Chair

Deming Chen

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

Deming Chen

4 (Central U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Deming Chen obtained his BS in computer science from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1995, and his MS and PhD in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He worked as a software engineer between 1995-1999 and 2001-2002. He joined the ECE department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and has been a full professor in the same department since 2015. He is a research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and an affiliate professor in the CS department. His current research interests include system-level and high-level synthesis, machine learning algorithms and acceleration, GPU and reconfigurable computing, computational genomics, and hardware security. He has given more than 110 invited talks sharing these research results worldwide.

Dr. Chen is a technical committee member for a series of top conferences and symposia on EDA, FPGA, low-power design, and VLSI systems design. He has also served as General or TPC Chair, Track Chair, Session Chair, Panelist, Panel Organizer, or Moderator for these conferences. He is or has been an associated editor for IEEE TCAD, ACM TODAES, IEEE TVLSI, ACM TRETS, IEEE TCAS-I and TCAS-II, IET Cyber-Physical Systems, JCSC, and JOLPE. He obtained the Achievement Award for Excellent Teamwork from Aplus Design Technologies in 2001, the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award from UIUC in 2007, the NSF CAREER Award in 2008, and nine Best Paper Awards. He is included in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in 2008 and 2017. He received the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2010, and IBM Faculty Award in 2014 and 2015. In 2017 and 2019 respectively, he led a team to win the first place of DAC International System Design Contest. He has given a series of Keynote or Plenary speeches at various conferences. He is the Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar and Abel Bliss Professor of College of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS).

Dr. Chen was involved in several startup companies. He implemented his published algorithm on CPLD technology mapping when he was a software engineer in Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. in 2001, and the software was exclusively licensed by Altera and distributed to many customers of Altera worldwide. He is one of the inventors of the xPilot High Level Synthesis package developed at UCLA, which was licensed to AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. Aplus was acquired by Magma in 2003, and AutoESL was acquired by Xilinx in 2011. He has also served as a consultant for several leading semiconductor companies.

In 2016, he co-founded a startup, Inspirit IoT, Inc., for design, acceleration and deployment of machine learning solutions targeting the IoT industry. He is currently the Chairman of the Board and the Interim CTO of the company. Inspirit IoT recently received an NSF SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Award from the US government.

Affiliation(s)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

United States

Newton Award Committee Vice Chair

Yu Wang

Tsinghua University

China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Newton Award Committee Member

Cristiana Bolchini

Politecnico di Milano

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Vivek De

Intel Corp.

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Vivek De

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

Vivek De (F’11) received the B.Tech. degree from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, the M.S. degree from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, and the Ph.D. degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, all in electrical engineering.

He is an Intel Fellow and the Circuit Technology Research Director at Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR, USA. He is responsible for leading and inspiring long-term research in future circuit technologies and design techniques for system-on-chip (SoC) designs focusing on energy efficiency. He has published 350 papers in refereed international conferences and journals with a citation H-index of 86 and has 241 patents issued with 25 more patents filed (pending).

Dr. De was a recipient of the 2019 IEEE Circuits and System Society (CASS) Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to leading-edge performance and energy-efficient microprocessors & many-core system-on-chip (SoC) designs and the 2020 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Industry Impact Award for seminal impact and distinctive contributions to the field of solid-state circuits and the integrated circuits industry. He received the Outstanding Evening Session Award from the 2018 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Intel Achievement Award for his contributions to an integrated voltage regulator technology, the Best Paper Award from the 1996 IEEE International ASIC Conference, and nominations for Best Paper Awards from the 2007 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) and the 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). He co-authored a paper nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). One of his publications was recognized at the 2013 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) as one of the “Top 10 Cited Papers in 50 Years of DAC.” Another one of his publications received the Most Frequently Cited Paper Award from the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits at its 30th Anniversary in 2017. He was recognized as a Top 10 Contributor to the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) at its 70th Anniversary in 2023, a Prolific Contributor at its 60th Anniversary in 2013, and a Top 10 Contributor to the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits at its 30th Anniversary in 2017. He served as an IEEE/EDS Distinguished Lecturer in 2011, an IEEE/SSCS Distinguished Lecturer from 2017 to 2018, and an IEEE/CASS Distinguished Lecturer from 2020 to 2022.

Affiliation(s)

Intel Corp.

United States

Antun Domic

Synopsys Inc.

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Georges Gielen

University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

Belgium

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Georges Gielen

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

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.

Affiliation(s)

University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

Belgium

Sybille Hellebrand

University of Paderborn

Germany

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Diana Marculescu

University of Texas, Austin

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Professor

The Pennsylvania State University

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Newton Award Committee Chair

Deming Chen

Newton Award Committee Vice Chair

Yu Wang

Newton Award Committee Member

Cristiana Bolchini

Vivek De

Antun Domic

Georges Gielen

Sybille Hellebrand

Diana Marculescu

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Martin D.F.Wong

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