Nanette Collins    NVC Marketing & Public Relations

For her significant contributions in helping women advance in the field of EDA technology.

Lynn Hao Thi TRAN     

The objective of the P.O. Pistilli Scholarship program is to increase the pool of professionals in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science from under-represented groups (women, African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and physically challenged). In 1989, ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) began providing the program. Beginning in 1993, the Design Automation Conference provided the funds for the scholarship and a volunteer committee continues to administer the program for DAC. DAC normally funds a $4000 scholarship, renewable up to five years, to graduating high school seniors.

Dr. Chenming Hu    TSMC Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Univ. of California, Berkeley

Dr. Hu is honored for his major contributions to transistor modeling enabling the generation of FinFET based design.

Professor Rajesh Gupta    TSMC Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Univ. of California, Berkeley

For outstanding service and contributions to the IEEE Council on EDA.

Patrick Groeneveld    Synopsys, Inc.

For outstanding service to the EDA community as DAC General Chair in 2012.

Wangyang Zhang     Cadence Design Systems, Inc
Xin Li     Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Frank Liu      IBM Research - Austin
Emrah Acar     IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Rob A. Rutenbar     Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald D. (Shawn) Blanton    Carnegie Mellon Univ.

For the paper titled: “Virtual Probe: A Statistical Framework for Low-Cost Silicon Characterization of Nanoscale Integrated Circuits,” IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 30, Issue: 12, pp. 1814 - 1827, December 2011.

Rajiv V. Joshi    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

For pioneering contributions to VLSI memory design and technology.

Jing Li    IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Kaushik Roy      Purdue Univ.
Ashish Goel     Broadcom Corp.
Patrick Ndai      Texas Instruments, Inc.

For the paper titled, “Design Paradigm for Robust Spin-Torque Transfer Magnetic RAM (STT MRAM) From Circuit/Architecture Perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1710-1723, December 2010.

Jason Cong    University of California, Los Angeles
Wei Jiang      University of California, Los Angeles
Bin Liu     University of California, Los Angeles
Yi Zou      University of California, Los Angeles

For their paper "Automatic Memory Partitioning and Scheduling for Throughput and Power Optimization," 16(2), April 2011.

Jacob White    Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering; EECS Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keith Nabors      Apache Design, Inc. a subsidiary of ANSYS, Inc.

For seminal work on fast integral equation solvers for integrated circuit parasitic extraction. “FastCap: A Multipole Accelerated 3-D Capacitance Extraction Program,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, November 1991, Vol. 10, Issue 11, Pages 1449-1459.

Shobha Vasudevan    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In recognition of a junior faculty member who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation.

Duo Ding    “CAD for Nanolithography and Nanophotonics”
Advisor: David Z. Pan
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Guojie Lou    "Placement and Design Planning for 3D Integrated Circuits"
Advisor: Jason Cong
Univ. of California, Los Angeles

In recognition of an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that makes the most substantial contribution to the theory and/or application in the field of electronic design automation.

Andrew B. Kahng     Professor of CSE and ECE Univ. of California at San Diego

For contributions to physical design automation and to the design for manufacturability of microelectonic systems.

Karem Sakallah      Professor of EE and CS Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

For algorithms for Boolean Satisfiability that advanced the state-of-the-art of hardware verification

Professor Chris Myers    University of Utah

For contributions to design and testing for asynchronous, analog, and genetic circuits.

Professor Subhasish Mitra    Stanford University

For contributions to design and test of robust integrated circuits.

Professor Yao Wen Chang    National Taiwan Univ.

For contributions to VLSI physical design and manufacturability.

Ramachandra Achar     Carleton Univ.

For contributions to interconnect and signal integrity analysis in high-speed designs.

Igor L. Markov    University of Michigan

For contributions to optimization methods in electronic design automation.

Ingrid Verbauwhede    K.U. Leuven

For contributions to design of secure integrated circuits and systems.