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SIGDA's CADathlon at ICCAD

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005
8 am - 5 pm
Double Tree Hotel
San Jose, CA





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CADathlon 2004



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Team: Underdogs

Team member: Matthew Guthaus
Advisor: Richard Brown and Dennis Sylvester
University: University of Michigan
Bio: Matthew is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan and expects to graduate near the beginning of the 2006 calendar year. His dissertation research is on design automation of robust clock networks using parametric statistical STA. Other research interests include physical design automation, low-power architecture for embedded systems, and algorithm specific microprocessors.

Team member: Jarrod Roy
Advisor: Igor Markov
University: University of Michigan
Bio: Jarrod Roy received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2001 and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in August 2005. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan. His areas of research interest include VLSI physical design as well as SAT and QBF solving.

Team number: 1
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Team: MinnCad

Team member: Jaskirat Singh
Advisor: Sachin Sapatnekar
University: Univeristy of Minnesota
Bio: My research interests are design and analysis of power/ground networks, statistical timing analysis and statistical circuit optimization.

Team member: Pongstorn Maidee
Advisor: Kia Bazargan
University: University of Minnesota
Bio: My research interests include physical design especially for FPGAs and regular fabrics.

Team number: 2
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Team: ChurrasCADa

Team member: Gustavo Neuberger
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
University: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Bio: Gustavo is a PhD student at UFRGS working with design and automatic generation of fault-tolerant circuits, and effects of process variability in integrated circuits. He received his BS degree in Computer Engineering at UFRGS in 2003. His research interests include physical design, design of fault tolerant circuits, design for manufacturability and process variability.

Team member: Renato Hentschke
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
University: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Bio: Renato is a PhD student at UFRGS working with place and route algorithms for wire length, routability and timing optimization of 3D circuits. He achieved his master degree in computer science at UFRGS in 2002. His research interests are timing and congestion driven physical design, logic synthesis for physical improvement and 3D integration.

Team number: 3
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Team: CAD-bury

Team member: Siddharth Garg
Advisor: Diana Marculescu
University: Carnegie Mellon
Bio: Siddharth is first year Phd. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include low power VLSI deign and energy aware computing.

Team member: Puru Choudhary
Advisor: Diana Marculescu
University: Carnegie Mellon
Bio: Puru is first year PhD. student in ECE department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include design of Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous systems, low power circuit design and VLSI CAD.

Team number: 4
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Team: EDA@NTU

Team member: Tai-Chen Chen
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
University: National Taiwan University
Bio: Tai-Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering at the National Taiwan University. His research interests include VLSI design automation, architectures, and systems (with emphasis on physical design for nanometer IC technologies and SoC integration) and combinatorial optimization. His current research topic focuses on gridless routing considering nanometer electrical effects.

Team member: Jia-Wei Fang
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
University: National Taiwan University
Bio: Jia-Wei Fang is a PhD student at the National Taiwan University. His research area is on physical design. The current research topic focuses on the packaging routing.

Team number: 5
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Team: NTUathlon

Team member: Tung-Chieh Chen
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
University: National Taiwan University
Bio: Tung-Chieh Chen received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2003, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the same university. His research interests include VLSI floorplanning and placement.

Team member: Chih-Yuan Huang
Advisor: Jiun-Lang Huang
University: National Taiwan University
Bio: Chih-Yuan Huang received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2003, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the same university. His research interests include digital circuit testing and design-for-test.

Team number: 6
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Team: Circuit Breakers

Team member: Nirav Dave
Advisor: Arvind
University: MIT
Bio: Nirav is a 3rd-year graduate student working in high-level synthesis and computer architecture. In his spare time, Nirav enjoys cycling, most manner of card games, and referring to himself in the third person.

Team member: Michael Pellauer
Advisor: Arvind
University: MIT
Bio: Michael is a 2rd-year graduate student working in high-level synthesis. Before coming to MIT, Michael got his MS from Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Team number: 7
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Team: ChimasCAD

Team member: Gustavo Reis Wilke
Advisor: Ricardo Augosto da Luz Reis
University: UFRGS
Bio: Gustavo works in the timing analysis and clock distribution area. He is also interested in statistical timing analysis and yield prediction. He has been working on CAD since 2001 as an undergraduate research assistant.

Team member: Lucas Brusamarello
Advisor: Roberto da Silva
University: UFRGS
Bio: Lucas works with yield prediction in SRAM memories, at Microelectronics Group. His interests are variability, design for manufacturability and error analysis. His previous works are for parallel computing for CAD.

Team number: 8
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Team: MSCAD

Team member: Jeffrey Fan
Advisor: Sheldon Tan
University: University of California, Riverside
Bio: Jeffrey Fan is currently a PhD student in University of California, Riverside. He brings in more than ten years of working experience in the industry before joining UCR. His interest of research includes VLSI simulation, modeling, and power/ground optimization.
Prior to his study, Jeffrey served as Vice President of Vivavr Technology, Inc., and General Manager/co-founder of Musica Technologies, Inc. From 1988 to 2002, he held various senior technical positions in Western Digital, Emulex Corporation, Adaptec Inc., and Toshiba America.
Jeffrey received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo. He also holds BSEE degree from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

Team member: Pu Liu
Advisor: Sheldon Tan
University: University of California, Riverside
Bio: Pu Liu received M.S. degree in control theory and control engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2002.
He is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at University of California at Riverside. His research interests focus on behavioral modeling and model order reduction techniques for linear, linear time varying system and nonlinear system, fast electrical and thermal analysis and optimization.

Team number: 9
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Team: CADMinnators

Team member: Sanjay Kumar
Advisor: Sachin Sapatnekar
University: Univ of Minnesota
Bio: Sanjay Kumar obtained his Bachelors of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics) from BITS-Pilani, India. He is working towards a PhD degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include variability aware CAD techniques for present day digital circuits.

Team member: Nitin Nagarkatte
Advisor: Sachin Sapatnekar
University: Univ of Minnesota
Bio: Nitin Nagarkatte obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunication) from the University of Pune, India. He is presently a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His current research is on radiation hardening of VLSI circuits.

Team number: 10
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Team: SU Orange

Team member: Divya Mullassery
Advisor: Nazanin Mansouri
University: Syracuse University
Bio: Divya Mullassery is a second year graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. She completed her B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Regional Engineering College Calicut, India in 2002. She worked as Design Engineer(R&D) at BPL Telecom in the field of Microcontroller based System Design from 2002 till 2004. Her research interests include development of CAD tools for System Level and Physical Design.

Team member: Priyank Parakh
Advisor: Nazanin Mansouri
University: Syracuse University
Bio: Priyank Parakh is a Master's Student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India in 2003. Presently, he is an active member of the System Level Integration and Verification Laboratory. His primary reserach interests are Testing and Validation of Digital Circuits.

Team number: 11
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