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2025 ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation

Call for Nominations

Design automation has gained widespread acceptance by the VLSI circuits and systems design community. Advancement in computer-aided design (CAD) methodologies, algorithms, and tools has become increasingly important to cope with the rapidly growing design complexity, higher performance and low-power requirements, and shorter time-to-market demands. To encourage innovative, ground-breaking research in the area of electronic design automation, the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) has established an ACM award to be given each year to an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that makes the most substantial contribution to the theory and/or application in the field of electronic design automation.

The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of USD $1,000. The 2025 Award will be presented at ICCAD 2025 in November 2025. The award is selected by a committee of experts from academia and industry in the field and appointed by ACM in consultation with the SIGDA Chair.

Deadline for the 2025 Award: 30 April 2025

Eligibility and nomination requirements: For the 2025 Award, the nominated dissertation should date between 1 July 2023 and 31 December 2024. Each nomination package should consist of:

The PDF file of the Ph.D. dissertation in the English language;
A statement (up to two pages) from the nominee explaining the significance and major contributions of the work;
A nomination letter from the nominee’s advisor or department chair or dean of the school endorsing the application;
Optionally, up to three letters of recommendation from experts in the field.

The nomination materials should be emailed to sigda.acm@gmail.com (Subject: ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in EDA). Recommendation letters may be sent separately.

Award Committee:

Ismail Bustany (AMD)

Mustafa Badaroglu (QualComm)

Jintong Hu (Pittsburg)

Sharad Malik (Princeton)

Mark Ren (Nvidia)

Aviral Shrivastava (ASU)

Linghao Song (Yale)

Peh Li Shiuan (NUS)

Natarajan Viswanathan (Cadence)

Robert Wille (TUM)

All standard conflict of interest regulations as stated in ACM policy will be applied. Any award committee members will recuse themselves from consideration of any candidates where a conflict of interest may exist.

Past Awardees

2024	Lukas Burgholzer, for the dissertation “Design Automation Tools and Software for Quantum Computing”, Johannes Kepler University Linz. Advisors: Robert Wille and Jens Eisert.
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.”

ONFA

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SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award

Call for Applications

The ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award (ONFA) recognizes a junior faculty member early in her or his academic career who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation. While prior research and/or teaching accomplishments are important, the selection committee will especially consider the impact that the candidate has had on her or his department and on the EDA field during the initial years of their academic appointment. The 2025 award will be presented at ICCAD 2025, consisting of a USD $1,000 cash prize to the faculty member, along with a plaque and a citation.

Eligibility: Outstanding new faculty who are developing academic careers in areas related to electronic design automation are encouraged to apply for this award. Note that this award is not intended for senior or highly experienced investigators who have already established independent research careers, even if they are new to academia. Candidates must have recently completed at least one full academic year and no more than four and a half full academic years in a tenure-track position. Applications will also be considered from people whose appointments are continuing (non-visiting) positions with substantial educational responsibilities regardless whether or not they are tenure track. Persons holding research-only positions are not eligible. Exceptions to the timing requirements will be made for persons who have interrupted their academic careers for substantive reasons, such as family or medical leave. The presence of such reasons must be attested by the sponsoring institution, but no explanation is needed.

Deadline for the 2025 Award: 31 May 2025

Application: Candidates applying for the award must submit the following to the selection committee:

a 2-page statement summarizing the candidate’s teaching and research accomplishments since beginning their current academic position, as well as an indication of plans for further development over the next five years;
a copy of a current curriculum vitae;
a letter from either the candidate’s department chair or dean endorsing the application.

The nomination materials should be emailed by the deadline to sigda.acm@gmail.com (Subject: ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award). Endorsement letters may be sent separately.

Award Committee:

Ron Duncan (Synopsys)
Tsung-Yi Ho (CUHK)
Ambar Sarkar (Nvidia)
Chengmo Yang (Delaware)
Dirk Ziegenbein (Bosch)

All standard conflict of interest regulations as stated in ACM policy will be applied. Any awards committee members will recuse themselves from consideration of any candidates where a conflict of interest may exist.

Past Awardees

2024	Bonan Yan	Peking University
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

Newton

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ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation 2025

Call for Nominations

Description

To honor a person or persons for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidenced by a paper published at least ten years before the presentation of the award (before July 2015).

Prize

USD 1500 to be shared amongst the authors and a plaque for each author.

Funding

Funded by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation and ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

Presentation

Presented annually at the Design Automation Conference.

Historical Background

A. Richard Newton, one of the foremost pioneers and leaders of the EDA field, passed away on 2 January 2007, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 55.

A. Richard Newton was professor and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Newton was educated at the University of Melbourne and received his bachelor’s degree in 1973 and his master’s degree in 1975. In the early 1970s he began to work on SPICE, a simulation program initially developed by Larry Nagel and Donald Pederson to analyze and design complex electronic circuitry with speed and accuracy. In 1978, Newton earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley.

For his research and entrepreneurial contributions to the electronic design automation industry, he was awarded the 2003 Phil Kaufman Award. In 2004, he was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2006, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Basis for Judging

The prime consideration will be the impact on technology, industry, and education, and on working designers and engineers in the field of EDA. Such impact might include a research result that inspires much innovative thinking, or that has been put into wide use in practice.

Eligibility

The paper must have passed through a peer-review process before publication, be an archived conference or journal publication available from or published by either ACM or IEEE, and be a seminal paper where an original idea was first described. Follow-up papers and extended descriptions of the work may be cited in the nomination, but the award is given for the initial original contribution.

Selection Committee

Chair: Wanli Chang

Vice-Chair: Deming Chen

Members to be announced

Nomination Deadline

21 March 2025

Nomination Package

Please send a one-page nomination letter explaining the impact of the nominated paper, evidence of the impact, biography of the nominator, at most three endorsements, and the nominated paper itself, all in one PDF file, to sigda.acm@gmail.com (Subject: 2025 A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation).

Past Awardees

2024: Mircea Stan and Wayne Burleson, “Bus-Invert Coding for Low-Power I/O”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 49-58, March 1995.
2023: Moshe Vardi and Pierre Wolper for their research work “An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Program Verification”, published in the proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 1986.
2022: Ricardo Telichevesky, Kenneth S. Kundert, and Jacob K. White, “Efficient Steady-State Analysis based on Matrix-Free Krylov-Subspace Methods”, In Proc. of the 32nd Design Automation Conference, 1995.
2021: John A. Waicukauski, Eric Lindbloom, Barry K. Rosen, and Vijay S. Iyengar, “Transition Fault Simulation,” IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. 4, no. 2, April 1987
2020: Luca Benini and Giovanni De Micheli, “Networks on Chips: A New SoC Paradigm,” IEEE Computer, pp. 70-78, January 2002.
2019: E. B. Eichelberger and T. W. Williams, “A Logic Design Structure for LSI Testability,” In Proc. of the 14th Design Automation Conference, 1977.
2018: Hans Eisenmann and Frank M. Johannes, “Generic Global Placement and Floorplanning,” In Proc. of the 35th Design Automation Conference, 1998.
2017: Matthew W. Moskewicz, Conor F. Madigan, Ying Zhao, Lintao Zhang, and Sharad Malik, “Chaff: Engineering an Efficient SAT Solver,” In Proc. of the 38st Design Automation Conference, 2001.
2016: Chandu Visweswariah, Kaushik Ravindran, Kerim Kalafala, Steven G. Walker, Sambasivan Narayan, “First-Order Incremental Block-Based Statistical Timing Analysis,” In Proc. of the 41st Design Automation Conference, 2004.
2015: Blaise Gassend, Dwaine Clarke, Marten van Dijk, and Srinivas Devadas, “Silicon Physical Random Functions,” In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002.
2014: Subhasish Mitra and Kee Sup Kim, “X-compact: an efficient response compaction technique for test cost reduction,” IEEE International Test Conference, 2002.
2013: Keith Nabors and Jacob White, “FastCap: A multipole accelerated 3-D capacitance extraction program,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 10, Issue 11 (1991): 1447-1459.
2012: Altan Odabasioglu, Mustafa Celik, Larry Pileggi, “PRIMA: Passive Reduced-Order Interconnect Macromodeling Algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Aug., 1998.
2011: Jason Cong, Eugene Ding, “FlowMap: An Optimal Technology Mapping Algorithm for Delay Optimization in Lookup-Table Based FPGA Designs,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Jan., 1994.
2010: Randal Bryant, “Graph-based algorithms for Boolean function manipulation” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Aug., 1986.
2009: Robert K. Brayton, Richard Rudell, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Albert R. Wang, “MIS: A Multiple-Level Logic Optimizations System,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Nov., 1997.

Fellows

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SIGDA ACM Fellows

Sharon Hu	University of Notre Dame
Helen Li	Duke University
Tajana Simunic Rosing	University of California, San Diego
Mark M. Tehranipoor	University of Florida
David Pan	University of Texas at Austin
Jacob A. Abraham	University of Texas, Austin
Arvind	CSAIL-MIT
James C. Browne	University of Texas, Austin
Krishnendu Chakrabarty	Duke University
Naehyuck Chang	KAIST
Jason (Jingsheng) Cong	University of California at Los Angeles
Andre Dehon	University of Pennsylvania
Giovanni De Micheli	EPFL
Srini Devadas	MIT
Nikil Dutt	University of California at Irvine
W. Kent Fuchs	Cornell University
Rajesh Gupta	University of California, San Diego
John P. Hayes	University of Michigan
Thomas A Henzinger	EPFL
Mary Jane Irwin	Pennsylvania State University
Niraj K. Jha	Princeton University
Andrew Kahng	University of California, San Diego
Sung Mo Kang	KAIST
Tei-Wei Kuo	Academia Sinica
Sharad Malik	Princeton University
Subhasish Mitra	Stanford University
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan	Pennsylvania State University
Oyekunle A. Olukotun	Stanford University
Dhiraj K. Pradhan	University of Bristol, UK
Bryan T. Preas	Xerox Parc
Parthasarathy Ranganathan	Google
Jonathan S. Rose	University of Toronto
Rob A. Rutenbar	Carnegie Mellon University
Karem Sakallah	University of Michigan
Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli	University of California, Berkeley
Sachin Sapatnekar	University of Minnesota
Kevin Skadron	University of Virginia
Alan J. Smith	University of California, Berkeley
Donald E. Thomas	Carnegie-Mellon University
Moshe Y. Vardi	Rice University
Marilyn Claire Wolf	Georgia Tech
Martin Wong	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Distinguished Members

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SIGDA Distinguished ACM Members

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

Bylaws

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BYLAWS of the Special Interest Group on DESIGN AUTOMATION of the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

Adopted – 27 October 1979
Revised – 9 March 1994
Revised – 7 July 2004
Revised – 24 March 2005
Revised – 20 January 2009
Revised – 20 July 2020

Article 1. Name and Scope

This organization is called the Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) of the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc: (the “ACM”).
The scope of SIGDA’s specialty is to enhance the utility of computers as engineering tools in the design, fabrication, and test of systems and structures.

Article 2. Purpose

SIGDA is organized and operated exclusively for educational, scientific, and technical purposes in design automation.
The purpose of SIGDA and its activities includes:
1. Collecting and disseminating information in design automation through a newsletter and other publications;
2. Organizing sessions at conferences of the ACM;
3. Sponsoring conferences, symposia, and workshops;
4. Organizing projects and working groups for education, research, and development;
5. Serving as a source of technical information for the Council and subunits of the ACM; and
6. Representing the opinions and expertise of the membership on matters of technical interest to SIGDA or ACM.

Article 3. Charter

SIGDA will exist until dissolved as provided in Bylaw 6 of the ACM.

Article 4. Officers

SIGDA officers are the Chair and Chairs for Awards, Conferences, Technical Activities, Educational Activities, Communications, and Finance; one of the named Chairs will also be a Vice-Chair. The Past Chair is not an elected official and may fill one of the named Chair positions. The officers are elected for three-year terms beginning July 1 of 2009. No extension of terms shall be allowed.
The Chair is the principal officer, being responsible for leading SIGDA and managing its activities. The duties of the Chair are:
1. Calling and presiding at SIGDA Executive Committee and business meetings;
2. Conducting all of SIGDA’s activities in accordance with the policies of the ACM; and
3. Making all appointments as authorized herein.
The duties of the Vice-Chair are:
1. Assisting the Chair in leading and managing SIGDA; and
2. Presiding at meetings when the Chair is absent.
The duties of the Past Chair are:
1. Filling one of the named chair positions below, or act as a member of the Advisory Board; and
2. Chairing the Nominating Committee for SIGDA officer elections.
The duties of the Communications Chair are:
1. Maintaining the records and correspondence of SIGDA;
2. Keeping and distributing the minutes and action items of business and Executive Committee meetings.
The duties of the Finance Chair are:
1. Managing SIGDA’s finances according to the Financial Accountability Policy of the ACM. This includes preparing the annual budget, monitoring disbursements for adherence to the annual budget, and preparing financial reports as required.
2. Managing of the SIGDA Travel Grants program, if applicable.
The duties of the Awards Chair are:
1. Providing a single point of contact for all SIGDA sponsored awards;
2. Coordinating the process of nominating ACM/SIGDA members for Fellow, Distinguished, and Senior grades.
The duties of the Conference Chair are:
1. Providing a single point of contact for all SIGDA sponsored, co-sponsored, in-coop events except events for which other SIGDA Advisory Board members have been specifically assigned;
2. Coordinating the review and approval of all conference/symposia/workshop budgets.
The duties of the Technical Activities Chair are:
1. Providing a single point of contact for all SIGDA Technical Committees and other technical activities;
2. Coordinating and reviewing SIGDA TC activities and other technical activities.
The duties of the Educational Activities Chair are:
1. Providing a single point of contact for all SIGDA educational activities;
2. Coordinating and reviewing all SIGDA educational activities.

Article 5. The Executive Committee

The Executive Committee comprises the officers.
Specific duties of the Executive Committee include:
Approval of bylaw amendments before submission to members;
Approval of annual dues for SIGDA;
Approval of the annual budget and review all expenditures in excess of 1% of the fiscal year’s opening Fund Balance on a quarterly basis;
Approval of conferences, symposia, workshops or sessions sponsored, co-sponsored or held in cooperation with SIGDA; and
All the major management policy decisions of SIGDA must be approved by the Executive Committee.

A quorum is a majority of the members of the Executive Committee and approval requires a majority vote of those present. Approval by mail ballot requires a majority vote.
Only a member of the Executive Committee can make a motion for a vote by the Executive Committee.
All members of, or candidates for, the Executive Committee must be voting Members of ACM and of SIGDA.

Article 6. Vacancies and Appointments

Should the Chair leave office before his term expires, the Vice-Chair will assume the duties of Chair. Should any other elected office (including Past Chair) become vacant, the Chair of the SIG Governing Board may, on nomination by the SIGDA Chair, and approval by majority vote of the Executive Committee, fill the vacancy. The Chair may fill vacancies in positions appointed by the Chair, according to the procedures for making the original appointments as provided herein.
Should a vacancy be unfilled, either because of inadequacy of these bylaws or because of a dispute or for any other reason, the SIG Governing Board Chair may fill it.
All appointments expire automatically when the Chair’s term of office expires.

Article 7. The Newsletter

SIGDA will publish a newsletter at regular intervals as determined by the Executive Committee. The newsletter will be distributed to all members.
The Chair will nominate an Editor of the Newsletter, to be approved by majority vote of the Executive Committee.

Article 8. The Advisory Board

The Advisory Board includes the Executive Committee (officers). It also includes members-at-large who are nominated by the SIGDA Chair. The Chair normally nominates up to ten members-at-large to the Advisory Board for his or her term of office. Appointments to the Advisory Board must be approved by a majority vote of the Executive Committee.
The purpose of the Advisory Board is to allow members outside the Executive Committee to participate in setting policy and direction for, and assist in the operation of, SIGDA. The Advisory Board members are typically the program managers or coordinators of SIGDA sponsored activities.
The Advisory Board members are non-voting members of the SIGDA Board, and while the Advisory Board may participate in a vote, their votes are non-binding, and only the Executive Committee votes are binding.

Article 9. Membership, Dues, and Voting Privileges

A person becomes a member only after enrolling and paying the required dues. The dues for SIGDA are determined by the SIGDA Executive Committee with the approval of the Chair of the SIG Governing Board.
All members of SIGDA may vote in any ballot conducted by SIGDA. On any ballot, the votes cast by non-ACM members of SIGDA will, if necessary, be prorated downward so that their effective total cannot exceed 50% of the eligible votes.

Article 10. Reports and Records

The SIGDA Chair is responsible for filing reports about SIGDA as required by the SIG Board. These include:

An annual report on the activities during the previous year;
All reports required by the Financial Accountability Policy of the ACM; and
Closing reports on conferences and symposia.

The membership records of SIGDA will be maintained by ACM headquarters.

Article 11. Elections

The Chair shall appoint a nominating committee in the autumn of each election year. This committee will nominate at least two candidates for the position of the chair and at least six other candidates for the members-at-large, who consent to serve on the Executive Committee and fill one of the named Chair positions if elected. The person winning the most votes among those nominated for the chair will be elected to that position. The six (or seven, if Past Chair does not wish to fill a name Chair position) receiving the highest number of votes among members-at-large are elected to the Executive Committee. A report of the nominating committee must be presented to the SIGDA membership before an election can be held.
All applicants for the chair should have significant service experience of at least 3 years in the design automation community and SIGDA, in particular. They should have served at least one term in the executive committee in roles other than the chair. Equivalent experience through service to SIGDA-approved sponsored conferences as deemed acceptable by the nominating committee is allowed.
A petition from at least ten voting members of SIGDA will place other consenting candidates on the ballot for any of the EC positions, subject to meeting the requirements of 11(b) for the chair position. Petitions must be received by the Past Chair no later than April 15 in the year of election or within one month after the nominating committee has announced the candidates selected by the committee, whichever is later.
Elections must be announced by direct communication to the SIGDA Membership with sufficient time before the election such that the membership has an opportunity to petition to be placed on the ballot.
The election will be conducted among eligible voters by ballot sent by the nominating committee or by ACM Headquarters, following the election procedures of the ACM. The SIG Board will resolve ties.
All named chairs, except those of the Chair, are to be decided by the new Executive Committee by ballot, from those elected as members-at-large. The new Executive Committee votes for each position: Vice-Chair, Finance, Communications, Conferences, Technical Activities, Educational Activities, and Awards.

Article 12. Amendments

These bylaws may be amended by a majority vote of the ACM Executive Committee, or by a vote of SIGDA’s members as provided below. With the approval of the SIGDA Executive Committee, and the Executive Committee of the ACM, 2/3 of all the members of the SIG Board may amend Article 1 of these bylaws without a referendum of the members.
Amendments to these bylaws may be proposed by the SIGDA Executive Committee, the SIG Governing Board, or by a petition from 10 voting members of SIGDA. All proposed amendments must be approved, prior to being submitted for a vote of the membership, by the Chairperson of both the SIG Governing Board and the Constitution and Bylaws Committee of ACM after the Executive Director of ACM has provided his advice.
The ballot on the proposed amendment(s) will be conducted among the eligible voters by ACM Headquarters following the procedures of the ACM for voting bylaw amendments, unless a different procedure has been approved by the SIG Board. The proposal is adopted only if at least 2/3 of the effective votes of returned ballots approve it, and only if at least 10% of the ballots are returned. The Secretary/Treasurer will send a clean copy of the amended bylaws to the Executive Director of ACM and to the Chair of the SIG Governing Board.

Article 13. Dissolution

Should SIGDA be dissolved, control of its assets will revert to the ACM.

Article 14. Meetings

SIGDA will conduct at least one business meeting each year, normally in conjunction with the annual Design Automation Conference. All meetings sponsored by SIGDA must be open to all members of the ACM. SIGDA may hold meetings only in places that are open to all classes of members of the ACM. The Executive Committee may meet in closed session during business meetings.

Article 15. Consistency

The Constitution, Bylaws, and policies of the ACM and of the SIG Governing Board take precedence over any conflicting provisions of these bylaws or internal policies of SIGDA.

Annual Reports

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Annual Report 2021 [pdf]
Annual Report 2020 [pdf]
Annual Report 2019 [pdf]
Annual Report 2016
Annual Report 2015
- 2015_ICCAD_CADAthlon_Report
- 2015_ICCAD_SRC_Report
Annual Report 2007 [doc][pdf]
Annual Report 2006 [doc][pdf]
Annual Report 2005 [doc][pdf]

Officers

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Executive Committee

Wanli Chang
Chair

Christian Pilato
Vice Chair and Conference Chair

Xun Jiao
Finance Chair

Ganapati Bhat
Technical Activity Chair

Siddharth Garg
Education Chair

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
Past Chair

Callie Hao
Communication Chair

Sri Parameswaran
Award Chair

Advisory Board Members Acting as Conference Representatives

DAC	Wanli Chang, Sharon Hu
ICCAD	to be updated
DATE	Christian Pilato, Aida Todri-Sanial
ASPDAC	Yu Wang
ESWEEK	Sudeep Pasricha

SIGDA Members in Charge of Programs

TODAES EIC	Jiang Hu
DA Summer School	to be updated
SIGDA E-Newsletter	Sandeep Chandran
CADathlon	to be updated
DAC Ph.D. Forum	to be updated
DATE Ph.D. Forum	Christian Pilato
ASPDAC Ph.D. Forum	to be updated
Student Research Competition	to be updated
University Research Demonstration	to be updated
DAC Early Career Workshop	to be updated

Below information (industry advisory board, diversity committee, etc) are outdated and will be updated soon.

Industry Advisory Board

Ismail Bustany	AMD
Vivek De	Intel
Rajiv Joshi	IBM
Renu Mehra	Synopsys
Mark Ren	Nvidia
Nat Viswanathan	Cadence
Luis Miguel Silveira	CEDA

SIGDA Diversity Committee

Evangeline Young — Chair	CUHK
Iris Bahar	Brown Univ.
Laleh Behjat	Univ. of Calgary
Patrick Groeneveld	Cadence
Iris Jiang	National Taiwan Univ.
Sashi Obilisetty	Synopsys
Raewadee Parnmukh	SiFive
Laura Pozzi	USI
Ricardo Reis	UFRGS
Ulf Schlichtmann	TUM
Xuan Zeng	Fudan Univ.

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Bei-Yu (Chair)	Asia and Oceania	byu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk	http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Ebyu/
Yi-Chung Chen	Americas	ychen@tnstate.edu	https://yichungchen84.github.io/
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UDDAC 2025: 35th ACM SIGDA / IEEE CEDA University Demonstration at Design Automation Conference

ACM SIGDA/IEEE CEDA University Demonstration (UD, previously University Booth) is an excellent opportunity for university researchers to showcase their results and to interact with participants at the Design Automation Conference (DAC). Presenters and attendees at DAC are especially encouraged to participate, but participation is open to all members of the university community. The demonstrations include new EDA tools, EDA tool applications, design projects, and instructional materials.

The University Demonstration will be held together with the Ph.D. Forum at DAC.

Date: June 22-25, 2025

Location: Moscone Center West, San Francisco

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submission should be made online at the Submission Site. Please upload a single PDF file that has the following:

Title of your demonstration
List of authors with their affiliations
An extended abstract of up to 2 pages, excluding figures and references
A YouTube link to a 5-minute online video teaser. If you are not able to upload it to YouTube, please include another link to your video teaser.
You may optionally attach a supporting paper.

Submission deadline: May 31, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uddac2025

Notification of Acceptance will be on Jun 5, 2025.

AWARD AND STUDENT SUPPORT INFORMATION

There will be three “University Demo Best Demonstration” awards and travel support for presenters up to $700 for each team to attend the University Demonstration event in person for the accepted submissions.

The presenter will be provided full registration to this year’s DAC.

The winners will be announced at the conference after the demonstration. The presenter will only be eligible for travel support if he/she does not receive any travel support from other events at DAC such as Ph.D. Forum or Young Fellowship.

First Place	$1000
Second Place	$750
Third Place	$500

The teams whose submissions got accepted should do the following for UDDAC 2024.

1. The presenter’s name and title

2. In-person video demonstrations are mandatory and should include a brief title sequence identifying the name of the research group and university, the team members, and stating “University Demonstration at DAC 2024.” Otherwise, there is complete freedom in how a group wishes to present its work.

Organizing Committee

Chair	Sumitha George, North Dakota State University. e-mail
Co-chair	Nan Wu, George Washington University. e-mail
Vice Chair	Yi Sheng, University of South Florida. e-mail
Vice Co-Chair	Umamaheswara Rao Tida, North Dakota State University. e-mail

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The Student Research Forum at the ASP-DAC is renovated from a traditional poster session hosted by ACM SIGDA for PhD students to present and discuss their dissertations with experts in the design automation community. Starting from 2015, the forum includes both PhD and MS students, offering great opportunity for the students to establish contacts for their future career. In addition, the forum helps the companies and academic institutes to get an overview of the latest research and discover the extraordinary candidates for their employment.

This Year’s Awards (2022)

Best Poster – Research
Intelligent Circuit Design and Implementation with Machine Learning in EDA
Zhiyao Xie, Duke University

Best Poster – Presentation
Algorithm-Hardware Co-design of Transformer on FPGA Devices
Xinyi Zhang, University of Pittsburgh

Most Popular Poster
ASBP: Automatic Structured Bit-Pruning for RRAM-based NN Accelerator
Songyun Qu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Call for Submission: SIGDA Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC 2021 (SRF@ASP-DAC 2021)

Considering ASP-DAC 2021 is going virtual due to COVID-19, SRF@ASP-DAC 2021 will be held as a virtual forum. The forum welcomes all students, professors and industrial professionals from the relevant research community. The student author of each accepted submission by the forum is required to have a registration to ASP-DAC 2021 at least at the full student rate. The forum will provide financial support equivalent to the full student rate for each accepted submission.

ELIGIBILITY

Students must be within 1 year (M.S.) or 2 years (Ph.D.) of dissertation completion or have completed their dissertation during the last 12 months.
Dissertation topic must be relevant to the ASP-DAC community.
Previous ASP-DAC forum presenters are not eligible.
Students who have presented previously at DAC/DATE PhD forums are eligible.
Only students with at least one published or accepted conference, symposium or journal “full” paper are eligible for awards.
Students must attend the forum virtually to present the poster in person without substitute presentations, or else please contact the SRF Chair in advance.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
A two-page PDF abstract of the dissertation (in two-column format, using 10pt. fonts and single-spaced lines), including name, institution, adviser, contact information, estimated (or actual) graduation date, whether the work has been presented at DAC PhD Forum or DATE PhD Forum, as well as figures and bibliography (if applicable). The two-page limit on the abstract will be strictly enforced: any material beyond the second page will be ignored by the reviewers. Each accepted abstract has to prepare a poster and a short video presentation, and the student has to attend the forum virtually for real-time interactions.

To be considered for awards, a student must explicitly indicate, in the title of the two-page abstract, the venues for which the work was published or accepted, and a list of all papers authored or co-authored by the student should be included in the bibliography of the two-page abstract. The papers must be related to the dissertation topic. Those on topics unrelated to the dissertation abstract will not be considered.

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspdacsrf2021

IMPORTANT DATES
  Submission Deadline: November 30, 2020 (firm)
  Date of Acceptance Notification: December 14, 2020
  Poster and Short Video Submission Deadline: January 5, 2021
  Forum Date: January 19, 2021

CONTACT INFORMATION
For queries, please send an e-mail to Prof. Weichen Liu (liu [at] ntu.edu.sg). Please include “SRF@ASP-DAC 2021” in the subject of your email.

Organizers

Chair:
Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Co-Chairs:
Lei Jiang, Indiana University Bloomington, US
Yaoyao Ye, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Secretariat:
Jun Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Technical Committee:
Hiromitsu Awano, Kyoto University, Japan
Donkyu Baek, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Ateet Bhalla, Independent Technology Consultant, India
Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Wanli Chang, University of York, UK
Xianzhang Chen, Chongqing University, China
Yi-Jung Chen, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Xiang Chen, George Mason University, US
Haibao Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore Univ. of Technology and Design, Singapore
Hsiang-Yun Cheng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Luan Huu Kinh Duong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shao-Yun Fang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, US
Chien-Chung Ho, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Weiwen Jiang, University of Notre Dame, US
Yukihide Kohira, The University of Aizu, Japan
Hyung-Gyu Lee, Daegu University, Korea
Sicheng Li, Hewlett Packard Labs, US
Yongfu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Qingan Li, Wuhan University, China
Chun-Han Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Ren-Shuo Liu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Jaehyun Park, University of Ulsan, Korea
Muhammad Shafique, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Liang Shi, East China Normal University, China
Donghwa Shin, Soongsil University, Korea
Masashi Tawada, Waseda University, Japan
Hoeseok Yang, Ajou University, Korea
Ming-Chang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Lei Yang, University of New Mexico, US
Bei Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Qian Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, US
ASP-DAC liaison:
Masashi Tawada, Waseda University, Japan
Yukio Mitsuyama, Kochi University of Technology, Japan

2024: John Darringer, IBM
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	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”

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