CADathlon 06 First Place Winners

Team: SPYONSIS Team Member: Donald Chai Advisor: Andreas Kuehlmann University: University of California, Berkeley Team Member: Satrajit Chatterjee Advisor: Robert Brayton University: University of California, Berkeley

Donald 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.

Sat 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.

CADathlon 06 Runner-Ups (second-place)

Team: iCAD Team Member: Kai-Hui Chang Advisors: Igor Markov and Valeria Bertacco University: University of Michigan Team Member: George Viamontes Advisors: Igor Markov and John Hayes University: University of Michigan

Kai-hui 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.

George 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.