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” |