DAC recognizes young innovators in the field of design and design automation of electronic systems. Nominations now open
LOUISVILLE, Colo. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 16, 2017 — The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the premier conference devoted to the design and design automation of electronic systems, is now accepting nominations for the Under 40 Innovators Award at the 55th DAC. The Under 40 Innovators Award is sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Systems Design Alliance (ESDA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award will recognize up to five of the top young innovators (nominees should be 40 years or younger in age as of June 1, 2018) who are movers and shakers in the field of design and automation of electronics. The 55th DAC will be held at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, CA from June 24 - 28, 2018. Nominations must be received no later than Wednesday, March 15, 2018.
From beyond the traditional automation around chip implementation, design automation is rapidly expanding to new areas such as neuromorphic computing, biological systems, cyber-security and cyber- physical systems. Within the electronics industry, the advent of new technologies and alternate scaling approaches using new integration approaches are emerging as traditional CMOS technology scaling slows down. Young innovators are redefining and shaping the future of the design automation field in industry, research labs, start-ups and academia, and DAC wants to recognize the best and brightest.
Nomination criteria:
The Under 40 Innovators Award is open to people in industry or academia with technical contributions of notable impact in the field of design and automation of electronics. Nominees are individuals who have made their contributions through work within an individual organization, to the design automation community and to the broader society. The award is intended for specific contributions such as commercial products, software or hardware systems, or specific algorithms or tools incorporated into other systems widely used by industry and academia. Nominations that emphasize only metrics such as number of publications, patents, and citations will not be sufficient. The impact as measured by commercialization and/or wide adoption of the nominee’s contributions is required.
The nomination for this award should include a one-page summary (fewer than 500 words) of the nominee’s technical work with specific emphasis on the impact of the work, a cover page with the email address, daytime telephone number and date of birth of the nominee. All nominations should be supported by at least three letters of recommendation. One of those letters of recommendation needs to be from a leader inside the nominee’s organization. Self-nominations are not allowed.
Up to five awards will be given each year at DAC, sponsored by ACM, IEEE, and ESDA. The winners will be recognized at the opening session at the 55th DAC. Nominations must be received by March 15, 2018, as a single PDF file and sent to: dacunder40award@dac.com
DAC 2017 Under 40 Innovator Award recipients are:
John Arthur,
Research Staff Member and Hardware Manager, IBM Research – Almaden
Arthur,
working in the Brain Inspired Computing Group at IBM Research, designs
large-scale neuromorphic chips and systems as well as algorithms to
train them. His work includes Stanford's Neurogrid and most recently
IBM's TrueNorth project.
Paul Cunningham, Vice President of R&D, Cadence Design
Systems, Inc.
Cunningham is responsible for front-end
digital design tools. Paul joined Cadence in 2011 through the
acquisition of Azuro, a clock concurrent optimization company where he
was a co-founder and CEO.
Douglas Densmore, Associate Professor, Boston Univ.
Densmore,
who works in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at
Boston University, creates EDA-inspired software tools for synthetic
biology. He is a founding member of the BU Biological Design Center
(BDC), head of the NSF’s “Living Computing Project” and a Senior Member
of the IEEE and ACM.
Yongpan Liu, Associate Professor, Tsinghua Univ.
Dr.
Liu’s research interests include design automation and emerging circuits
and systems for the Internet of Things (IoT). He designed the first
nonvolatile processor used in both academia and industry. He received
IEEE Micro Top Pick16 and best paper awards of HPCA15 and ASPDAC17.
Sasikanth Manipatruni, Physicist/Engineer, Intel Corp.
Manipatruni’s
work merges hard physics-based design with the experimental
demonstration of spin/optical/MEMS devices. He has contributed more than
50 scientific articles and about 80 patents spanning nanophotonics,
medical sensing, beyond CMOS computing. He also coaches middle/high
schoolers for Physics Olympiad.
For additional information on the award, and the Design Automation Conference visit www.dac.com
About DAC
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier
event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for
electronic design automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse
worldwide community representing more than 1,000 organizations attends
each year, represented by system designers and architects, logic and
circuit designers, validation engineers, CAD managers, senior managers
and executives to researchers and academicians from leading
universities. Close to 60 technical sessions selected by a committee of
electronic design experts offer information on recent developments and
trends, management practices and new products, methodologies and
technologies. A highlight of DAC is its exhibition and suite area with
approximately 200 of the leading and emerging EDA, silicon, intellectual
property (IP) and design services providers. The conference is sponsored
by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Systems
Design Alliance (ESDA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on
Design Automation (ACM SIGDA) and IEEE’s Council on Electronic Design
Automation (CEDA).
