Dr. Andrzej Strojwas    Keithley Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Dr. Strojwas is being recognized for his pioneering and sustained contributions to design for manufacturing.

Farshad Firouzi     
Fangming Ye     
Krishnendu Chakrabarty     
Mehdi B. Tahoori     

“Aging – and Variation-Aware Delay Monitoring Using Representative Critical Path Selection” ACM Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol. 21, Issue 1, Nov. 2015.

Janet Olson    Vice President of Engineering for RTL Synthesis R&D; at Synopsys, Inc.

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

Matthew W. Moskewicz    University of California, Berkeley / Cadence
Conor F. Madigan     Kateeva, Inc.
Ying Zhao     Wuxi Venture Capital Group
Lintao Zhang    Microsoft Research Asia
Sharad Malik    Princeton Univ.

Sponsored by the IEEE Council on EDA and the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation. For seminal contributions to scalable Boolean satisfiability solving including locality-based search and efficient backtracking. Matthew W. Moskewicz, Conor F. Madigan, Ying Zhao, Lintao Zhang, and Sharad Malik “Chaff: Engineering an Efficient SAT Solver,” Proc. Of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference, pp. 530 – 535, June 2001.

Sachin Sapatnekar     

For contributions to the enhancement of performance and reliability in integrated circuits.

Rajesh Gupta     

For contributions in design of embedded systems and hardware-software codesign.

Yier Jin    University of Central 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.

Jeyavijayan Rajendran    New York University

“Trustworthy Integrated Circuit Design” Advisor: Ramesh Karri, New York University

Andrew B. Kahng    University of California at San Diego, Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering

For collaboration on clock tree synthesis and design for manufacturability.

William H. Joyner, Jr.    Semiconductor Research Corporation, Retired

For going above and beyond the call of duty in support of CEDA’s activities.

Charles Alpert    Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

For outstanding service to the EDA community as DAC General Chair in 2016.

Luca Carloni    Columbia University

For contributions to system-on-chip design automation and latency-insensitive design.

Xin Li    Duke University / Duke Kunshan University

For contributions to system-on-chip design automation and latency-insensitive design.

Frank Liu    Columbia University

For contributions to design for manufacturability of VLSI circuits.

Walden C. Rhines    Columbia University

For leadership and technology innovation in integrated circuit design and automation.

Weiping Shi    Texas A&M; University

For contributions to modeling and design of VLSI interconnects.

Xiaoqing Jin     
Alexandre Donzé     
Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh     
Sanjit A. Seshianbsp;    

“Mining Requirements from Closed-Loop Control Models,” Vol. 34, Issue 11, pp. 1704 – 1717, November 2015.

Kenia Hale    Yale 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 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).

John Arthur    IBM Research – Almaden
Paul Cunningham     Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Douglas Densmore     Boston University
Yongpan Liu     Tsinghua University
Sasikanth Manipatruni     Intel Corp.

The Under-40 Innovators Award is new this year and is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Systems Design Alliance (ESDA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award will recognize the top five young innovators (nominees should be 40 years or younger in age as of June 1, 2017) who are movers and shakers in the field of design and automation of electronics.