51st DAC Awards
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 | Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award Recipient: Diana Marculescu, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University For her significant contributions in helping women advance in the field of EDA technology. |
 | P.O. Pistilli Undergraduate Scholarships for Advancement in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering The 2014 recipient is: Nadege Ineza 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. |
 | 2014 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award Prof. Chung Laung (Dave) Liu For seminal, long-lasting contributions to design automation for circuits and systems. |
 | IEEE Council on EDA Outstanding Service Yervant Zorian, Synopsys, Inc. For exceptional commitment and service to the EDA community. |
 | IEEE Fellow Zhigang (David) Pan, University of Texas at Austin For contributions to design for manufacturability in integrated circuits. |
 | IEEE Fellow Martin Vlach, Mentor Graphics, Corp. For leadership in analog and mixed signal hardware description languages and their simulation tools. |
 | IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award for 2014 Authors: Zheng Zhang Tarek A. El-Moselhy Ibrahim M. Elfadel Luca Daniel For Paper titled "Stochastic Testing Method for Transistor-Level Uncertainty Quantification Based on Generalized Polynomial Chaos"that appeared in the October 2013 issue, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1533-1545 |
 | A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award For an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidenced by a paper published at least ten years ago Authors: Subhasish Mitra Kee Sup Kim The paper entitled “X-Compact: An Efficient Response Compaction Technique for Test Cost Reduction,” published in IEEE Intl. Test Conf. in 2002 |
 | ACM TODAES Best Paper Award 2014 Authors: Peter Milder Franz Franchetti James C. Hoe Markus Püschel For the paper titled, “Computer Generation of Hardware for Linear Digital Signal Processing Transforms” ACM TODAES, 17(2), Apr 2012. |
 | ACM Fellow For contributions to optimization methods for system-on-chip test automation, microfluidic biochips, and sensor network infrastructure. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University |
 | SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award In recognition for the outstanding dissertation entitled "IC Spatial Variation Modeling: Algorithms and Applications." Wangyang Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University |
 | SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award In recognition of his great potential as a lead researcher and educator in the field of electronic design automation. Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh |
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