Lawrence Pileggi | EPFL, Carnegie Melon University

Mary Jane Irwin | Pennsylvania State University

Jörg Henkel | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Jinjun Xiong | University of Buffalo
For contributions to process variation modeling, circuit yield optimization, and their applications in industry.


Qinru Qiu | Syracuse University
For contributions to modeling and optimization of energy efficient computing systems.


Haoxing Ren | NVIDIA
For contributions to physical synthesis of integrated circuits.


Sri Parameswaran | University of Sydney
For contributions to embedded computer circuits and systems.


Lei He | UCLA
For contributions to integrated circuits and smart energy systems.


Tsung-Yi-Ho | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
For contributions to design automation and test of microfluidic biochips.

Mircea Stan | University of Virginia
Wayne Burleson | University of Massachusetts Amherst

John Darringer | IBM Research

Anand Raghunathan | Purdue University
Rolf Dreschler | University of Bremen
Massoud Pedram | University of Southern California

Nishant Patil | Apple
Bei Yu | Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jintong Hu | University of Pittsburgh
Farimah Farahmandi | University of Florida
Bita Rouhani | NVIDIA

Sashi Obilisetty, Director, R&D | Synopsys
This annual award, named for Marie R. Pistilli, the former organizer of DAC, recognizes individuals who have visibly helped advance women in Electronic Design.

2000s "Chaff: Engineering an Efficient SAT Solver" Presented at DAC 2001 by Conor Madiga, (MIT), Sharad Malik (Princeton University), Matthew Moskewicz (UC Berkley), Lintao Zhang (Princetone University), Ying Zhao (Princeton University)

A previously published (between 1964 and 2000) DAC paper that has demonstrated substantial academic and/or industrial impact in one or more of DAC’s research topics at the time.

Marilyn Wolf | University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Patrick Haspel | Synopsys

Bonan Yan | Peking University

Lukas Burgholzer | Johannes Kepler University Linz

Weiwen Jiang | George Mason University
Tu-Guang (Andy) Chen | National Taiwan University
Fan Chen | Indiana University
Ahmad Sadeghi | TU Darmsradt

Shimen Yu, Hongu Jiang, Shahi Huang | Georgia Tech University

“Hardware-Aware Quantization/Mapping Strategies for Compute-In-Memory Accelerators”

Wenjing Jiang | University of Minnesota
“A Machine Learning Approach to Improving Timing Consistency Between Global Route and Detailed Route”

Tobias Alsonso | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Lucian Petrica | Xilinx Research, Ireland, Mario Ruiz | Xilinx Research, Ireland, Jakoba Petri-Koening | Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Yaman Umuroglu | Xilinx Research, Ireland, Ioannis Stamelos | InAccel, USA, Elias Koromilas​ | InAccel, USA, Michaela Blott | Xilinx Research, Ireland, Kees Vissers | Xilinx Research, USA
“Elastic-DF: Scaling Performance of DNN Inference in FPGA Clouds through Automatic Partitioning”

Zihao Yuan | Boston University, Prachi Shukla | Boston University, Sofiane Chetoui | Brown University, Sean Nemtzow | Boston University, Shereif Reda | Brown University, Ayse K Coskun | Boston University
“PACT: An Extensible Parallel Thermal Simulator for Emerging Integration and Cooling Technologies”

Sri Sai Pavan Pasumarthi, Sudheer Yadapalli, Vineet Ooramkumarath | Qualcomm
“Early Clock Tree Power Estimation and Correlation at SoC: A Case Study”