CADathlon 07 First Place Winners

Team:Bogo Team Member: Zhe-Wei Jiang Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang University: National Taiwan University Team Member: Tung-Chieh Chen Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang University: National Taiwan University

Zhe-Wei 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.

Tung-Chieh 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.

CADathlon 07 Runner-Ups (second-place, tied)

Team:Minke Team Member: Chi-An Wu Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang University: National Taiwan University Team Member: Kai-Fu Tang Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang University: National Taiwan University

Chi-An received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2005, and is currently working toward the M.S. degree at the same university. His current research topic focuses on hardware verification.

Kai-Fu is a Ph.D. student in National Taiwan University. His current research topic focuses on software verification.

Team:Vivian Darkbloom Can Cede Team Member: Nathan Kitchen Advisor: Andreas Kuehlmann University: UC Berkeley Team Member: Donald Chai Advisor: Andreas Kuehlmann University: UC Berkeley

Nathan is a PhD student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He is currently working on constrained random verification with Andreas Kuehlmann. He has a BS in EE from Brigham Young University.

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 in 2008.