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SIGDA's CADathlon at ICCAD

Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006
8 am - 5 pm
Double Tree Hotel
San Jose, CA



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CADathlon 2005


  Sponsored by SIGDA
 
SIGDA Liaison
Prof. Igor Markov

Team: ChurrasCADa

Team member: Renato Fernandes Hentschke
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
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 driven physical design, logic synthesis for physical improvement and 3D integration.

Team member: Gustavo Neuberger
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
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 number: 01
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Team: iCAD

Team member: Kai-hui Chang
Advisor: Igor Markov and Valeria Bertacco
University of Michigan
Bio: Kai-hui Chang is a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan. He has MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. His current research interests include verification and physical synthesis.

Team member: George Viamontes
Advisor: Igor Markov and John Hayes
University of Michigan
Bio: George F. Viamontes is a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan. He is working to develop algorithms that exploit implicit problem structure to simulate quantum-mechanical phenomena efficiently and has done some of this research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has an MS in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

Team number: 02
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Team: Code ... Eat ... then Sleep

Team member: Jin Hu
Advisor: Igor Markov
University of Michigan
Bio: Jin is currently a 1st year PhD student at the University of Michigan under the direction of Professor Igor Markov. She received both her BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Engineering with Summa Cum Laude from Northwestern University in June 2006. Her research interests focus in the areas of VLSI systems design, SAT and LP, and placement and routing.

Team member: Jarrod Roy
Advisor: Igor Markov
University of Michigan
Bio: 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.

Team number: 03
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Team: SPYONSIS

Team member: Donald Chai
Advisor: Andreas Kuehlmann
UC Berkeley
Bio: Donald Chai hails from Brooklyn in New York City, meaning he properly pronounces phrases such as "orange", "Super Mario Brothers", and "forget about it". After being imbued with super EE and CS powers at Cornell University, he decided to take up surfing and somehow ended up in Berkeley, on the wrong end of California. There, he probes the deep mysteries of design automation under the watchful (and infinitely patient) eye of Andreas Kuehlmann. He received his MS degree and will get his PhD Real Soon Now.

Team member: Satrajit Chatterjee
Advisor: Robert King Brayton
UC Berkeley
Bio: Satrajit Chatterjee is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at U. C. Berkeley working with Professor Brayton. Currently he is preoccupied with algorithms for logic synthesis. He graduated with the B. Tech and M. Tech degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2001.

Team number: 04
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Team: RiceCADres

Team member: Mosin Mondal
Advisor: Yehia Massoud
Rice University
Bio: Mosin Mondal is currently a PhD student in the Rice Automated Nanoscale Design Group at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2001. From 2001 to May 2004 he was working with Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd. as a Member of Technical Staff in the Digital IC Group where he was in the R&D of CeltIC(TM), a noise analysis tool for cell based digital design. Mosin's research interests include modeling and extraction of interconnect and timing, noise and power analysis.

Team member: Mihir Choudhury
Advisor: Kartik Mohanram
Rice University
Bio: Mihir Choudhury is currently a Phd Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University. He did his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. His research interests include reliability analysis for nanoscale circuits, fault-tolerant computing and computation in the presence of noise.

Team number: 05
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Team: Ctrl+Alt+Del

Team member: Cristiano Lazzari
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Bio: Cristiano Lazzari is a PhD student at UFRGS working with algorithms for automatic layout generation and fault-tolerant techniques. He received his Master degree in Computer Science at UFRGS in 2003. His research interests include physical design such as algorithms for layout generation and timing analysis.

Team member: Adriel Ziesemer Jr.
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Bio: Adriel is a last year Master student at UFRGS working with automatic datapath layout generation. He received his BS degree in Computer Science at UFPel in 2004. His research interests include physical design algorithms for layout generation, placing and routing.

Team number: 06
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Team: CADCouple

Team member: Behnam Amelifard
Advisor: Massoud Pedram
University of Southern California (USC)
Bio: Behnam received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran, respectively. Currently, he is working in the System Power Optimization and Regulation Technologies Lab under supervision of Prof. Massoud Pedram at the University of Southern California for his Ph.D. degree. His main research interest includes different topics in low-power design, especially, low-power synthesis and low-power memory design.

Team member: Taraneh Taghavi
Advisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Bio: Taraneh received her B.S. from Dept. of Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. She started her graduate studies at University of California, Los Angeles, where she obtained her M.S degree in Computer Science Department in 2004, working on Computer Aided Design of digital circuits. Currently, she is working in the Embedded and Reconfigurable (ER) Lab under supervision of Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh at the University of California, Los Angeles for her Ph.D. degree. Her research interest includes different topics in physical design, especially, placement and routing for ASIC and FPGA.

Team number: 07
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Team: UTDA

Team member: Ashutosh Chakraborty
Advisor: David Z Pan
University of Texas, Austin
Bio: Ashutosh received his B.Tech from IIT Delhi in 2002 and was at Politecnico di Torino from 2004-2006. Currently, he is a PhD student at University of Texas, Austin where his research focuses on Placement algorithms. Ashutosh was with Mentor Graphics from 2002-2004 working on hardware emulation products.

Team member: Kun Yuan
Advisor: David Z Pan
University of Texas,Austin
Bio: Kun Yuan graduated from University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 with his B.S.E.E.Currently,he is a Ph.D student in UTDA group at University of Texas. He was at The Ohio State University 2004-2006.His research interest is VLSI physical design.

Team number: 08
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Team: HTathlon

Team member: Han Liang
Advisor: Kaijie Wu
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bio: Han Liang received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, and a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 1999 and 2002 respectively. He is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. His areas of research interest include computer-aided design, high-performance power-efficient and fault-tolerant VLSI systems, high-speed hardware architectures of cryptographic protocols and algorithms.

Team member: Tongquan Wei
Advisor: Piyush Mishra
Michigan Tech University
Bio: Tongquan Wei is a Ph.D student at the Michigan Tech University. His research interests focus on power and fault tolerance management for real-time embedded systems. Wei recieved the BS degree in electrical engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China, and the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Missour-Rolla.

Team number: 09
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Team: Go Orange

Team member: Salil Sharma
Advisor: Adrian Nunez Aldana
Syracuse University
Bio: Salil Sharma 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 Vaishnav Institute of Technology, Indore, India in 2005. He is a Committe member of GROVE (GRoup Of VLSI Enthusiasts at SU). Presently he is working on Layout Generation tool for Physical Design and placement methods for cell based layouts. His primary research interests are Design and Testing of Digital Systems and Physical Design.

Team member: Roma Patel
Advisor: Adrian Nunez Aldana
Syracuse University
Bio: Roma Patel is currently a Master’s student in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University and will graduate near the end of 2006 calendar year. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Gujarat University, Gujarat, India. Her research involves development of CAD tools for Physical Design, currently working on placement method for cell based layouts to minimize wire length. Other research interests include development of high-level synthesis tools and VLSI Design methods. She is a committee member of GROVE (GRoup Of VLSI Enthusiasts at SU).

Team number: 10
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Team: Mavericks

Team member: Osei Poku
Advisor: Shawn Blanton
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio: Osei is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests involve various aspects of VLSI Testing and Diagnosis.

Team member: Sonia Singhal
Advisor: Rob Rutenbar
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio: Sonia is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests involve various aspects of VLSI Physical Design.

Team number: 11
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Team: CADGurus

Team member: Vasanth Krishna Namasivayam
Advisor: NA
University of Southern California
Bio: Vasanth Krishna Namasivayam graduated with his MSEE from the University of Southern California in May 2006. He is currently pursuing his PhD in EE and MS in C Eng. His research interests include Digital design, verification, CAD, and parallel programming and algorithms. He has published one paper in IEEE ICPADS 2006, which was nominated for best paper and one paper in ACM SBAC - PAD 2006. His work was also accepted as a poster at MIT Lincoln Lab HPEC 2006. He was also selected as a global intern at Infosys Technologies, India.

Team member: Zhiyang Ong
Advisor: Sandeep Gupta
University of Southern California
Bio: Zhiyang Ong is currently pursuing his MS EE in the University of Southern California. His current field of interest is electronic design automation. He has previously worked at Symantec, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore and Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore. He has published three papers so far at SPIE 2004, SDIND 2005 and SPIE 2005. He also runs cross country in his free time.

Team number: 12
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Team: CadMinn

Team member: Wenting Deng
Advisor: Jaijeet Roychowdhury
University of Minnesota
Bio: Wenting is currently a first-year graduate student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Her recent research is applying sinc basis in high-accuracy time-domain circuit simulation. Proposed research interests are in analog system verification, include automated macromodelling, efficient simulation of fast/slow circuits, mixed circuit- and system-level simulation, and bio-nano simulation.

Team member: Sanjay Kumar
Advisor: Sachin Sapatnekar
University of Minnesota
Bio: Sanjay Kumar obtained his Bachelors of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics) from BITS-Pilani, India in 2004 and Masters in Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 2006. He is currently working towards a PhD degree at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include variability and reliability aware CAD techniques for present day digital circuits.

Team number: 13
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Team: Newcastle U

Team member: Andrey Mokhov
Advisor: Alex Yakovlev
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Bio: 2nd year PhD student in Computer Engineering My research topic is Algorithmic Design for Asynchronous Systems. I took part in numerous ACM-stlye programming competitions before.

Team member: Yu Zhou
Advisor: Alex Yakovlev
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Bio: 4th year PhD student in Computer Engineering intrested in asynchronous circuits automation. will present a paper at the ICCAD06.

Team number: 14
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Team: Go Orange II

Team member: Ashma Sethi
Advisor: Nazanin Mansouri
Syracuse University
Bio: "The only limit to what you can achieve in life is the size of your imagination and the level of your commitment to make it real." Guided by this philosophy to be her driving force in all endeavours, academic or not; Ashma has been ever willing to learn and explore new avenues. As an Electrical Engineering Masters' student at Syracuse University, she has constantly worked towards honing her skills in Computer Aided Design and Verification of digital systems and submicron chips. She is the current President of GROVE (GRoup of VLSI Enthusiasts) at the university, and is actively involved in organizing VLSI related activities. Her primary research interests include high level synthesis and development of CAD tools.

Team member: Avinash T Suresh
Advisor: Jim Fawcett
Syracuse University
Bio: Avinash is a second year graduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Syracuse University. He has been an active pursuer of application level software development in various languages and platforms. He has worked on several projects that includes designing and building innovative software with extensive research in the field of fault tolerant software for mission critical systems. Apart from having a successful academic record he is also known for his singing and guitaring skills.

Team number: 15
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Team: RiceECG

Team member: Mian Dong
Advisor: Lin Zhong
Rice University
Bio: I received my bachelor and master degree from Tsinghua University in China. Now I am a first year PhD. student in ECE department of Rice University. My research interests involve nano circuits and devices.

Team member: Jiayang Liu
Advisor: Lin Zhong
Rice University
Bio: I received my bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in China. Now I am a first year PhD. student in ECE department of Rice University. My research interests involve power optimization for wireless communication interface.

Team number: 16
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Team: Windows V*

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

Team number: 17
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Team: Formosa

Team member: Wan-Ping Lee
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Wan-Ping Lee received the B.S. degree in Management Information System from Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2001, and the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 2003. Currently, she is working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering at the National Taiwan University. Her research focus on the multi-supply voltage floorplanning.

Team member: Chung-Wei Lin
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Chung-Wei Lin received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2001. Currently, he is working toward the M.S. degree in the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering at the National Taiwan University. His research focus on the routing and DFM.

Team number: 18
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The contest is over; Congratulations to the Winners!