2023 Best Paper & Presentation Recipients

60th DAC Best Paper Awards for Research

Gamora: Graph Learning based Symbolic Reasoning for Large-Scale Boolean Networks

• Nan Wu | UC Santa Barbara
• Yingjie Li | University of Utah
• Cong "Callie" Hao | Georgia Institute of Technology
• Steve Dai | NVIDIA
• Cunxi Yu | University of Utah
• Yuan Xie | University of California, Santa Barbara

RL-CCD: Concurrent Clock and Data Optimization using Attention-Based Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

• Yi-Chen Lu | Georgia Institute of Technology
• Wei-Ting Chan | Synopsys Inc.
• Deyuan Guo | Synopsys Inc.
• Sudipto Kundu | Synopsys Inc.
• Vishal Khandelwal | Synopsys Inc.
• Sung Kyu Lim | Georgia Tech

 

60th DAC BEST PAPER AWARD NOMINEES

• AVX Timing Side-Channel Attacks against Address Space Layout Randomization

• Rethinking AIG Resynthesis in Parallel

• Gamora: Graph Learning based Symbolic Reasoning for Large-Scale Boolean Networks

• COSA: Co-Operative Systolic Arrays for Multi-head Attention Mechanism in Neural Network using Hybrid Data Reuse and Fusion Methodologies

• RL-CCD: Concurrent Clock and Data Optimization using Attention-Based Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

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Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for Front-End Design 

Novel Numerical Hardware Design Methodology: From Machine Readable Specification to Optimized RTL

• Theo Drane | Intel

 

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for Back-End Design 

Predictive Crosstalk Fixing Using XGBoost Regressor

• Fulung Li​ | Intel
   

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for IP 

Latency Processing Unit (LPU) for Acceleration of Hyperscale AI Models

• Seungjae Moon | HyperAccel

 

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for Embedded Systems & Software

Early Android Software Verification With RISC-V Virtual Platforms

• Lukas Juenger | MachineWare GmbH