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About ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA)

SIGDA is committed to advancing the skills and knowledge of electronic design automation professionals and students throughout the world. We do so in a variety of ways: sponsoring and organizing international workshops, symposia and conferences; leading the way in capturing archival electronic design automation publications; providing travel grants to sponsored workshops, symposia and conferences; pioneering the maintenance and distribution of electronic design automation benchmarks; hosting university and government researchers for software demonstrations at the University Research Demonstration at DAC; publishing the SIGDA Newsletter; maintaining a World Wide Web access site on Internet; creating the webinar series SIGDA LIVE, and managing the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. Highlights of our recent activities include:

SIGDA Live is a series of webinars, launched monthly or bi-monthly, on topics (either technical or non-technical) of general interest to the SIGDA community. The talks in general fall on the last Wednesday of a month, and take about 45 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&A. Speaker and topic nominations are welcome and should be sent to sigdalive@gmail.com. All past talks are archived through our Youtube channel.
The ACM Transactions on the Design Automation of Electronic Systems: The journal provides comprehensive coverage of innovative research and work concerning the creation and evaluation of VLSI electronic systems. The journal emphasizes a computer science and engineering orientation. Topics include system design, high-level synthesis, logic synthesis, physical layout, design verification, system reliability, and high-performance circuits. The journal is actively seeking research papers, tutorial and survey papers, and short technical notes. The journal is distributed in hard-copy and electronic formats. SIGDA members receive a significantly subsidized subscription rate.
SIGDA sponsors or is in cooperation with major design automation conferences and workshops. We average more than two such events per month. A SIGDA member receives a significantly reduced registration rate for these meetings.

2023	Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore “For her leadership in major SIGDA conferences such asgeneral chair for ICCAD and ESWEEK“.
	Patrick Groeneveld, Stanford University “For his multi-year significant contribution to the EDA community, such as DAC finance chair among many other“.
2022	Vijay Narayanan, The Pennsylvania State University “For Extraordinary Dedication and Leadership to SIGDA“.
	Harry Foster, Siemens EDA “For Extraordinary Dedication and Persistence in Leading DAC during Pandemic“.
2021	Deming Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For distinguished contributions to the design automation and reconfigurable computing communities“.
	Evangeline F. Y. Young, Chinese University of Hong Kong “For outstanding leadership in promoting diversity in the ACM/SIGDA community“.
2020	Sri Parameswaran, University of New South Wales “For leadership and distinguished service to the EDA community“.
2019	Naehyuck Chang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology “For many years of impactful service to ACM/SIGDA in various leadership positions“.
	Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University “For a decade of outstanding service to ACM/SIGDA in various volunteer positions“
2018	Chuck Alpert, Cadence Design Systems “For significant contributions to DAC”.
	Jörg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology “For leading SIGDA efforts in Europe and DATE”.
	Michael ‘Mac’ McNamara, Adapt-IP “For sustained contributions to the design automation community and DAC”.
	Michelle Clancy, Cayenne Communication “For sustained contributions to the community, especially DAC”.
2016	Steven Levitan “In recognition of a lifetime of devoted service to ACM SIGDA and the Electronic Design Automation community.”
2015	Tatsuo Ohtsuki, Waseda University Hiroto Yasuura, Kyushu University Hidetoshi Onodera, Kyoto University “For their distinguished contributions to the Asia and South Pacific Design automation Conference (ASPDAC) as well as their many years of dedicated service on the conference’s steering committee”
	Massoud Pedram, University of Southern California “For his many years of service as Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)”
2014	Peter Marwedel, Technical University of Dortmund “For his muiltiple years of service starting and maintaining the DATE PhD Forum”
2012	Joe Zamreno, Iowa State University
	Baris Taskin, Drexel University
2011	Peter Feldman, IBM
	Radu Marculescu, CMU
	Qinru Qiu, Syracuse University
	Martin Wong, UIUC
	Qing Wu, Air Force Rome Labs
2010	Alex K. Jones “For dedicated service to ACM/SIGDA and the Design Automation Conference as director of the University Booth”
	Matt Guthaus “For dedicated service as director of SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD program and Editor-in-Chief of the SIGDA E-Newsletter”
	Diana Marculescu “For dedicated service as SIGDA Chair, and contributions to SIGDA, DAC and the EDA Profession”
2009	Nikil Dutt “For contributions to ACM’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation during the past fifteen years as a SIGDA officer, coordinator of the University Booth in its early years, and most recently, as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems”
2008	SungKyu Lim “For his contributions to the DAC University Booth.”
2007	Richard Goering “For his contributions as EE Times Editorial Director for Design Automation for more than two decades”
	Gary Smith “For his contributions as Chief EDA Analyst at Gartner Dataquest for almost two decades.”
	Daniel Gajski Mary Jane Irwin Donald E. Thomas Chuck Shaw “For outstanding contributions to the creation of the SIGDA/DAC University Booth, on the occasion of its 20th edition.”
	Soha Hassoun Steven P. Levitan “For outstanding contributions to the creation of the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC on the occasion of its 10th edition.”
	Richard Auletta “For over a decade of service to SIGDA as University Booth Coordinator, Secretary/Treasurer, and Executive Committee Member-at-Large.”
2006	Robert Walker “For dedicated service as SIGDA Chair (2001 – 2005), and over a decade of service to SIGDA, DAC and the EDA profession.”
2005	Mary Jane Irwin “For dedicated service as Editor in Chief of ACM Journal, TODAES (1998 – 2004), and many years of service to SIGDA, DAC, and the EDA profession.”
2004	James P. Cohoon “For exemplary service to SIGDA, to ACM, to DAC, and to the EDA profession as a whole”
2003	James Plusquellic “For exemplary service to ACM/SIGDA and the Design Automation Conference as director of the University Booth program”
2002	Steven P. Levitan “For over a decade of service to ACM/SIGDA and the EDA industry — as DAC University Booth Coordinator, Student Design Contest organizer, founder and promoter of SIGDA’s web server, and most recently, Chair of ACM/SIGDA from 1997 to 2001.”
	Cheng-Kok Koh “For exemplary service to ACM/SIGDA and the EDA industry — as Co-director of SIGDA’s CDROM Project, as SIGDA’s Travel Grants Coordinator, and as Editor of the SIGDA Newsletter.”
2001	Robert Grafton “For contributions to the EDA profession through his many years as the Program Director of NSF’s Design, Tools, and Test Program of the computer, Information Sciences & Engineering Directorate. In this position, he provided supervision, mentorship, and guidance to several generation of EDA tool designers and builders funded by grants from the National Science Foundation.”
2000	Massoud Pedram “For his contributions in developing the SIGDA Multimedia Series and organizing the Young Student Support Program”
	Soha Hassoun “For developing the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum”
1999	C.L. (Dave) Liu “For his work in founding our flagship journal ACM/TODAES”

2023	Robert Wille, Technical University of Munich “For his leading positions in major ACM SIGDA conferences, including Executive Committee of DATE, ICCAD and Chair of the PhD Forum at DAC and DATE“.
	Lei Jiang, Indiana University Bloomington “For his leadership and contribution to SIGDA student research forums (SRFs) at ASP-DAC“.
	Hui-Ru Jiang, National Taiwan University “For her continuous contribution to SIGDA PhD Forum at DAC and many other events“.
	Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran, Texas A&M University “For his leadership in co-founding and organizing Hack@DAC, the largest hardware security competition in the world“.
2022	Jeff Goeders, Brigham Young University “For Chairing System Design Contest @ DAC for the Past 3 Years“.
	Cheng Zhuo, Zhejiang University “For the Leading Efforts to the Success of SRC@ICCAD and SDC@DAC as Chairs for the past5 years, and the Sustained Contributions to the EDA Community in China“.
	Tsung-Wei Huang, University of Utah “For Chairing CADathlon and CAD Contests at ICCAD for Three Years. These Activities Have Engaged Hundreds of Students into CAD Research“.
	Yiyu Shi, University of Notre Dame “For Outstanding Services in Leading SIGDA Educational Efforts“.
2021	Bei Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong “For service as SIGDA Web Chair from 2016 to 2021, SIGDA Student Research Competition Chair in 2018 and 2019, and other SIGDA activities“.

2020	Aida Todri-Sanial, LIRMM/University of Montpellier “For service as Co-Editor-in-Chief of SIGDA e-Newsletter from 2016 to 2019 and other SIGDA activities“.
	Yu Wang, Tsinghua University “For service as Co-Editor-in-Chief of SIGDA e-Newsletter from 2017 to 2019 and other SIGDA activities”.
2019	Yinhe Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences “For outstanding effort in promoting EDA and SIGDA events in China“
	Jingtong Hu, University of Pittsburgh “For contribution to multiple SIGDA education and outreach activities“
	Xiaowei Xu, University of Notre Dame “For contribution to the 2018 System Design Contest at ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference“
2015	Laleh Behjat, University of Calgary “For service as chair of the SIGDA PhD forum at DAC”
	Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University Jeonghee Shin, Apple “For their service as co-chairs of the University Booth at DAC”
1998	Jason Cong Bryan Preas Kathy Preas Chong-Chian Koh Cheng-Kok Koh “For contributions in producing SIGDA CD ROM’s – Archiving the knowledge of the Design Automation Community”
1997	Robert Walker “For his hard work as Secretary/Treasurer and University Booth Coordinator”
1996	Debbie Hall “For serving as ACM Program Director for SIGDA for the past 6 years”

2013	Jarrod Roy Sudeep Pasricha Sudarshan Banerjee Srinivas Katkoori “for running CADathlon”
2012	Cheng Zhuo Steve Burns Amin Chirayu Andrey Ayupov Gustavo Wilke Mustafa Ozdal
2011	Raju Balasuramanian Zhuo Li Frank Liu Natarajan Viswanathan
2010	Cliff Sze “For contributions to the ISPD Physical Design contest, and promoting research in physical design.”
2008	Hai Zhou “For contributions to the SIGDA E-Newsletter (2005-2008)”
	Jing Yang “For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2004-2008)”
2007	Geert Janssen “For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon”
	Tony Givargis “For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2005-2007)”
	Gi-Joon Nam “For contributions to the Physical Design Contest at ISPD (2005-2007)”
2006	Kartik Mohanram “For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD (2004-2005)”
	Ray Hoare “For contributions to the SIGDA University Booth at DAC (2004-2006)”
	Radu Marculescu “For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2004-2006)”
	Frank Liu “For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2005-2006)”
2005	Florian Krohm “For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD”
	R. Iris Bahar Igor Markov “For contributions to the SIGDA E-Newsletter”
2004	Robert Jones “For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC”
2003	Diana Marculescu “For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC”
2002	Geert Janssen “For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD”
	Pai Chou Abe Elfadel Olivier Coudert Soha Hassoun “For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC”

2022: Ron Rohrer, SMU, CMU	For the introduction and evolution of simulation and analysis techniques that have supported the design and test of integrated circuits and systems for more than half a century.
2021: Prof. Rob Rutenbar, PITT	For his pioneering work and extraordinary leadership in analog design automation and general EDA education.
2020: Prof. Jacob A. Abraham, UT Austin	For pioneering and fundamental contributions to manufacturing testing and fault-tolerant operation of computing systems.
2019: Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL	For pioneering and fundamental contributions to synthesis and optimization of integrated circuits and networks-on-chip.
2018: Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, UC Berkeley	For pioneering and fundamental contributions to design automation research and industry, in system-level design, embedded systems, logic synthesis, physical design and circuit simulation.
2017: Prof. Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University	For contributions to VLSI architectures, electronic design automation and community membership.
2016: Prof. Chung Laung (Dave) Liu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (emeritus)	For the fundamental and seminal contributions to physical design and embedded systems.
2014: Prof. John P. Hayes, University of Michigan
2013: Prof. Donald E. Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University	For his pioneering work in making the Verilog Hardware Description Language more accessible for the design automation community and allowing for faster and easier pathways to simulation, high-level synthesis, and co-design of hardware-software systems.
2012: Dr. Louise Trevillyan, IBM	Recognizing her almost-40-year career in EDA and her groundbreaking research contributions in logic and physical synthesis, design verification, high-level synthesis, processor performance analysis, and compiler technology.
2011: Prof. Robert K. Brayton, UC Berkeley	For outstanding contributions to the field of Computer Aided Design of integrated systems over the last several decades.
2010: Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	On Solving Hard Problems by Analogy Automated electronic design is not the only field in which surprising analogies from other fields of science have been used to deal with the challenges of very large problem sizes, requiring optimization across multiple scales, with constraints which eliminate any elegant solutions. Similar opportunities arise, for example, in logistics, in scheduling, in portfolio optimization and other classic problems. The common ingredient in all of these is that the problems are fundamentally frustrated, in that conflicting objectives must be traded off at all scales. This, plus the irregular structure in such real world problems eliminates any easy routes to the best solutions. Of course, in engineering, the real objective is not a global optimum, but a solution that is “good enough” and can be obtained “soon enough” to be useful. The model in materials science that gave rise by analogy to simulated annealing is the spin glass, which recently surfaced again in computer science as a vehicle whose inherent complexity might answer the long-vexing question of whether P can be proved not equal to NP.
2009: Prof. Martin Davis, NYU	For his fundamental contributions to algorithms for solving the Boolean Satisfiability problem, which heavily influenced modern tools for hardware and software verifciation, as well as logic circuit synthesis.
2008: Prof. Edward J. McCluskey, Stanford	For his outstanding contributions to the areas of CAD, test and reliable computing during the past half of century.
2007: Dr. Gene M. Amdahl, Amdahl Corporation	Award citation: For his outstanding contributions to the computing industry on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Amdahl’s Law. Video of Dr. Amdahl’s dinner talk and a panel debate are available on the ACM digital library.

2023	Zhiyao Xie, for the dissertation “Intelligent Circuit Design and Implementation with Machine Learning”, Duke University, Advisors: Yiran Chen and Hai Li
2022	Ganapati Bhat, for the dissertation “Design, Optimization, and Applications of Wearable IoT Devices”, Arizona State University, Advisor: Umit Y. Ogras
2021	Ahmedullah Aziz, for the dissertation “Device-Circuit Co-Design Employing Phase Transition Materials for Low power Electronics”, Purdue University, Advisor: Sumeet Gupta.
2020	Gengjie Chen, for the dissertation “VLSI Routing: Seeing Nano Tree in Giga Forest,” The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Advisor: Evangeline Young.
2019	Tsung-Wei Huang, for the dissertation “Distributed Timing Analysis“, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Advisor: Martin D. F. Wong.
2018	Xiaoqing Xu, for the dissertation “Standard Cell Optimization and Physical Design in Advanced Technology Nodes,” University of Texas at Austin. Advisor: David Z. Pan.
	Pramod Subramanyan, for the dissertation “Deriving Abstractions to Address Hardware Platform Security Challenges,” Princeton University. Advisor: Sharad Malik.
2017	Jeyavijayan Rajendran, for the dissertation “Trustworthy Integrated Circuit Design,” New York University. Advisor: Ramesh Karri.
2016	Zheng Zhang, for the dissertation “Uncertainty Quantification for Integrated Circuits and Microelectromechanical Systems,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor: Luca Daniel.
2015	Wenchao Li, for the dissertation “Specification Mining: New Formalisms, Algorithms and Applications,” University of California at Berkeley. Advisor: Sanjit Seshia.
2014	Wangyang Zhang, for the dissertation “IC Spatial Variation Modeling: Algorithms and Applicaitons,” Carnegie Mellon University. Advisors: Xin Li and Rob Rutenbar
2013	Duo Ding, for the dissertation “CAD for Nanolithography and Nanophotonics,” University of Texas at Austin. Advisor: David Z. Pan
	Guojie Luo, for the dissertation “Placement and Design Planning for 3D integrated Circuits,” UCLA. Advisor: Jason Cong
2012	Tan Yan, for the dissertation “Algorithmic Studies on PCB Routing,” defended with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2011	Nishant Patil, for the dissertation “Design and Fabrication of Imperfection-Immune Carbon Nanotube Digital VLSI Circuits,” Stanford University.
2010	Himanshu Jain, for the dissertation “Verification using Satisfiability Checking, Predicate Abstraction, and Craig Interpolation,” Carnegie Mellon University.
2009	Kai-Hui Chang, for the dissertation “Functional Design Error Diagnosis, Correction and Layout Repair of Digital Circuits”, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
2008	(No award is given this year)
2007	(No award is given this year)
2006	Haifeng Qian of University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for the thesis entitled “Stochastic and Hybrid Linear Equation Solvers and their Applications in VLSI Design Automation”.
2005	Shuvendu Lahiri of Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for a thesis entitled “Unbounded System Verification using Decision Procedure and Predicate Abstraction”
2004	Chao Wang of University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Electrical Engineering, for a thesis entitled “Abstraction Refinement for Large Scale Model Checking”
2003	Luca Daniel of University of California, Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for a thesis entitled “Simulation and modeling techniques for signal integrity and electromagnetic interference on high frequency electronic systems”
	Lintao Zhang of Princeton University Department of Electrical Engineering for a thesis entitled “Searching for truth: techniques for satisfiability of Boolean formulas.”
2002	(No award is given this year)
2001	Darko Kirovski from University of California, Los Angeles Department of Computer Science for a thesis entitled “Constraint Manipulation Techniques for Synthesis and Verification of Embedded Systems.” The runner-up who received an honorable mention in that years ceremony was Michael Beattie of Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for a thesis entitled “Efficient Electromagnetic Modeling for Giga-scale IC Interconnect.”
2000	Robert Brent Jones of Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering for a thesis entitled “Applications of Symbolic Simulation To the Formal Verification of Microprocessors.”

2023	Tsung-Wei Huang	University of Utah
2022	Yingyan (Celine) Lin	Rice University
2021	Zheng Zhang	UC Santa Barbara
2020	Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon	University of Utah
2019	Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran	Texas A&M University
2018	Shimeng Yu	Arizona State University
2017	Yier Jin	University of Florida
2016	Swaroop Ghosh	University of South Florida
2015	Muhammad Shafique	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2014	Yiran Chen	University of Pittsburgh
2013	Shobha Vasudevan	UIUC
2012	David Atienza	EPFL, Switzerland
2011	Farinaz Koushanfar	Rice University
2010	Puneet Gupta	UCLA
	Deming Chen	UIUC
2009	Yu Cao	Arizona State University
2008	Subhasish Mitra	Stanford University
2007	Michael Orshansky	University of Texas, Austin
2006	David Pan	University of Texas, Austin
2004	Kaustav Banerjee	University of California, Santa Barbara
	Igor Markov	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2003	Dennis Sylvester	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2002	Charlie Chung-Ping Chen	Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
2000	Vijay Narayanan	Penn State University

Naehyuck Chang	Seoul National University
Igor Markov	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Diana Marculescu	Carnegie Mellon University
R. Iris Bahar	Brown University
Robert A. Walker	Kent State University
Nikil D. Dutt	University of California, Irvine
Stephen Trimberger	Xilinx, Inc.
Krishnendu Chakrabarty	Duke University
Massoud Pedram	University of Southern California

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