CADathlon 05 First Place Winners

Team: Underdogs Team Member: Jarrod Roy Advisor: Igor Markov University: University of Michigan Team Member: Matthew Guthaus Advisors: Richard Brown and Dennis Sylvester University: University of Michigan

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.

Jarrod 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.

CADathlon 05 Honorable Mention (second-place)

Team: ChurrasCADa Team Member: Renato Hentschke Advisor: Ricardo Reis University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Team Member: Gustavo Neuberger Advisor: Ricardo Reis University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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.

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.