Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA Recipient.

Dr. Walden Rhines | Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corporation Wilsonville, Oregon.
Dr. Rhines is being recognized for growing the EDA and integrated circuit (IC) design industries through his efforts as a leading voice of EDA and for pioneering the evolution of IC design to system-on-chip (SoC) design.”

2016 ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award Recipient.

Prof. Swaroop Ghosh | University of South Florida
In recognition of a junior faculty member who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation.”

2016 ACM SIGDA Outstanding PH.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation Recipient.

Dr. Zheng Zhang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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.” Dr. Zheng Zhang – “Uncertainty Quantification for Integrated Circuits and Microelectromechanical Systems,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor Luca Daniel.

2016 Marie R. Pistilli Women In Engineering Achievement Award Recipient.

Soha Hassoun | Tufts University
This annual award, named for Marie R. Pistilli, the former organizer of DAC, recognizes individuals who have visibly helped advance women in Electronic Design.”

ACM SIGDA/IEEE CEDA A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation Recipients.

Chandu Visweswariah | IBM
Kaushik Ravindran | National Instruments
Kerim Kalafala | IBM
Steven G. Walker | IBM
Sambasivan Narayan | IBM
For pioneering contributions to statistical static timing analysis.” C. Visweswariah, K. Ravindran, K. Kalafala, S. G. Walker, S. Narayan, “First-Order Incremental Block-Based Statistical Timing Analysis.” Proc. of the 41st Design Automation Conference, pp. 331 – 336, June 2004.

ACM Fellow Recipient - Naehyuck Chang.

Naehyuck Chang | KAIST
“For contributions to low-power computing systems.”


ACM Fellow Recipient - Tei-Wei Kuo.

Tei-Wei Kuo | Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
“For contributions to performance and reliability enhancement of flash-memory storage systems.”


ACM Fellow - Kevin Skadron.

Kevin Skadron | University of Virginia
“For contributions in power and thermal-aware modeling, design and benchmarking of microprocessors, including GPUs.”

ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service Award Recipient.

Dr. Steven Levitan | University of Pittsburgh
“In recognition of a lifetime of devoted service to ACM SIGDA and the Electronic Design Automation community”

ACM TODAES Best Paper Award Recipients.

Chung-Wei Lin | UC Berkeley
Bowen Zheng | UC Riverside
Qi Zhu | UC Riverside
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli | UC Berkeley
"Security-Aware Design Methodology and Optimization for Automotive Systems" Vol. 21, Issue 1, Nov. 2015.

IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Award - Anne Cirkel.

Anne Cirkel | Mentor Graphics
“For outstanding service to the EDA community as DAC General Chair in 2015.”


IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Award - Krithi Ramamritham.

Krithi Ramamritham
“For outstanding service to the EDA community as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters from 2011 to 2015.”

IEEE Fellow - Xiaobo Sharon Hu.

Xiaobo Sharon Hu | University of Notre Dame
“For outstanding service to the EDA community as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters from 2011 to 2015.”


IEEE Fellow - Jiang Hu.

Jiang Hu | Texas A&M University
“For contributions to gate, interconnect and clock network optimization in VLSI circuits.”


IEEE Fellow - Peng Li.

Peng Li | Texas A&M University
“For contributions to the analysis and modeling of integrated circuits and systems.”


IEEE Fellow - Chris Rowen.

Chris Rowen | Cadence Design Systems
“For leadership in the development of microprocessors and reduced instruction set computers.”

Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award Recipients.

Shupeng Sun | Google
Xin Li | Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Hongzhou Liu | Cadence Design Systems
Ben Gu | Cadence Design Systems
“Fast Statistical Analysis of Rare Circuit Failure Events via Scaled-Sigma Sampling for High-Dimensional Variation Space,” Vol. 34, Issue 7, pp. 1096 - 1109, July 2015.

P.O. Pistilli Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient.

Nicole Amoako | Columbia University
“The objective of the P.O. Pistilli Undergraduate Scholarship for Advancement in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering is to increase the pool of professionals in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science from under-represented groups (female, African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and disabled students). In 1989, ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) began providing the program. DAC normally funds a $4000 scholarship, renewable up to five years, to graduating high school seniors who have a 3.00 GPA or better (on a 4.00 scale).”

Synopsys EDA Research Award Recipient.

Chris C.N. Chu | Iowa State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“For advancing EDA technology in the areas of Physical Optimization and Placement.”