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SIGDA's CADathlon at ICCAD

Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010
8 am - 5 pm
Double Tree Hotel
San Jose, CA


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R. Iris Bahar

UW-CAD

Team member: Javid Jaffari
Advisor: Mohab Anis
University of Waterloo
Bio: Javid is a PhD student at University of Waterloo working on statistical analysis and design under process variations. He received M.Sc. in 2005 at University of Tehran working on gate-level leakage power reduction techniques. His research interests include IC design and CAD, design for yield, and device modeling. He has more than 20 publications in refereed VLSI/CAD journals and conferences.

Team member: Akhilesh Kumar
Advisor: Mohab Anis
University of Waterloo
Bio: Akhilesh is a PhD student at University of Waterloo working on variability aware design techniques. He received the MASc degree from University of Waterloo and the B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He worked at ST Microelectronics before joining the graduate program at University of Waterloo. His research interests are VLSI CAD and design for reliability.

Team number: 01


Unsatisfiable Revolutions

Team member: Tobias Welp
Advisor: Andreas Kuehlmann
UC Berkeley
Bio: Tobias graduated in 2007 from Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. Now he is in his third year as a PhD student at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests are in logic synthesis and formal verification.

Team member: Barch Sterin
Advisor: Robert K. Brayton
UC Berkeley
Bio: Baruch received his B.A. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel in 2000. He then went to work in the industry until he discovered that working is bad for one's health. He is now a second year Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested in formal verification and logic synthesis.

Team number: 02


CAT

Team member: Nikita Nikitin
Advisor: Jordi Cortadella
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Bio: Nikita got the Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is now a PhD student in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya working on Network-on-Chip synthesis models and tools.

Team member: Marc Galceran
Advisor: Jordi Cortadella
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Bio: Marc got his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Currently, he is a PhD student in UPC working on design and optimization of latency insensitive systems.

Team number: 03


Duo

Team member: Bo-Han Wu
Advisor: Chung-Yang Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Interest in programming and math. Like to participate different activities to improve himself.

Team member: Chun-Ju Yang
Advisor: Chung-Yang Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Yang enjoys programming and challenge. His research interests are mainly about synthesis and verification.

Team number: 04


Golden City

Team member: Yun-Jian Lo
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Yun-Jian Lo is a Master student in the College of Computer Science at the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.. He received his B.S. degree in Department of Computer Scienct and Imformation Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2007.

Team member: Ke-Ren Dai
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Ke-Ren Dai received the B.S. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2005, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the same university. His research interests include placement and global routing.

Team number: 05


Finding NEMO

Team member: Yen-Hung Lin
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Yen-Hung Lin received the BS degree in computer science and information engineeringfrom the National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC), in 2005. He is currently working toward the PhD degree at the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC. His current research interests include timing-driven issues, detaiiled routing, safety-critical systems, and formal verification.

Team member: Chih-Ta Lin
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Chih-Ta Lin received the B.S. degree in computer and information science from the National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2004. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer Science, National Chiao-Tung University. His research interests include physical design automation.

Team number: 06


Timrau

Team member: Jen-Yang Wen
Advisor: Chien-Mo James Li
National Taiwan University
Bio: Wen received his B.S. in EE from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2008, and is currently a graduate student in the same university. His current research focus on low power ATPG.

Team member: Cheng-Yin Wu
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Wu received his B.S. in EE from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2008, and is currently a graduate student in the same university. His current research focus on synthesis and verification.

Team number: 07


Matched Architects

Team member: Da-Cheng Juan
Advisor: Diana Marculescu
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio: Da-Cheng is currently a Ph.D. student in ECE dept. of CMU. His research interests include low-power related topics, electronic design automation (EDA), and statistical analysis.

Team member: Yu-Ting Chen
Advisor: Jason Cong
UCLA
Bio: Yu-Ting is currently a Ph. D. Student in CS dept. of ULCA. His research interests include computer architecture, high level synthesis, and low-power related topics.

Team number: 08


IClution

Team member: Masoud Rostami
Advisor: Kartik Mohanram
Rice University
Bio: Masoud Rostami is a second-year ECE graduate student at Rice University. He is mainly interested in statistical design of ICs and bioinformatics.

Team member: Xuebei Yang
Advisor: Kartik Mohanram
Rice University
Bio: Xuebei Yang is a second-year ECE graduate student at Rice University. He is mainly interested in nano-scale device modeling and applications.

Team number: 09


VERIdicality 3000

Team member: Kai-Fu Tang
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Kai-Fu Tang is a Ph.D. student at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. His research interests include logic synthesis and verification.

Team member: Chih-Chun Lee
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Chih-Chun is a Ph.D. student in EE at National Taiwan University. His research focuses on model checking hardware and software.

Team number: 10


CAD-Dragons

Team member: Vinayak Honkote
Advisor: Baris Taskin
Drexel University
Bio: Vinayak Honkote is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. He received a Bachelor's degree from Bangalore Institute of Technology (2003) and a Master's degree from Drexel University (2006). His current research topic is High Performance Circuit Design Using Resonant Rotary Clocking.

Team member: Jianchao Lu
Advisor: Baris Taskin
Drexel University
Bio: Jianchao Lu received his B.S. in Electronic and Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2007. Currently he is working towards Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University. His research interests are clock tree synthesis, low power physical design and parallel VLSI algorithms.

Team number: 11


CAD-MEN

Team member: Tuck Boon Chan
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
UCLA
Bio: Tuck is currently a second year PhD student in the department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Master's in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2007.

Team member: Aashish Pant
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
UCLA
Bio: Aashish is currently a second year master's student in the department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering in 2006 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Before joining UCLA, Aashish worked in Mentor Graphics, Noida.

Team number: 12


Old Pals

Team member: Baktash Boghrati
Advisor: Sachin Sapatnekar
University of Minnesota
Bio: Baktash is a Ph. D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Currently, he is conducting research on design and implementation of an Efficient Stochastic Power Network Analyzer. Previously, he obtained his B. S. degree from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in spring 2006.

Team member: Mehrdad Majzoobi
Advisor: Farinaz Koushanfar
Rice University
Bio: Mehrdad received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Tehran, Iran in 2006 and Rice University, Texas in 2009 respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Rice University. His research interests include statistical modeling and optimization, reconfigurable systems, test for VLSI, hardware security, and hardware/software intellectual property (IP) protection.

Team number: 13


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