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SIGDA's CADathlon at ICCAD

Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008
8 am - 5 pm
Double Tree Hotel
San Jose, CA


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CADathlon 2007



  Sponsored by SIGDA
 
SIGDA Liaison
Asst. Prof.
Matthew Guthaus

UTCAD

Team member: Ashutosh Chakraborty
Advisor: David Pan
UT Austin
Bio: Ashutosh is a PhD student at UT Austin working on strain aware physical design methodology. He got his B.Tech. from IIT Delhi,India in 2002 and MS from UT Austin in 2008 both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ashutosh worked as senior member technical staff in Mentor Graphics from 2002-2004.

Team member: Anurag Kumar
Advisor: David Pan
UT Austin
Bio: Anurag is currently a graduate student at University of Texas at Austin. He received his undergraduate degree (B.Tech.) from Indian Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering. He has worked in Atrenta - an EDA company and Intel. His current research interests are in VLSI Physical design, placement and routing.

Team number: 01


Team: Unsatisfiable Reloaded

Team member: Tobias Welp
Advisor: Andreas Kuehlmann
UC Berkeley
Bio: Tobias graduated in 2007 from Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. Now he is in his second year as a PhD student at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests are in logic synthesis and formal verification.

Team member: Baruch Sterin
Advisor: Robert K. Brayton
UC Berkeley
Bio: Baruch received his B.A. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel in 2000. He then went to work in the industry until he discovered that working is bad for one's health. He is now a first year Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested in formal verification and logic synthesis.

Team number: 02


Team: BottomCoder

Team member: Ruey-Shi Rau
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Ruey-Shi Rau is a Master student in the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering at the National Taiwan University. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2007. His research focuses on engines for formal verification.

Team member: Szu-Yu Chen
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Szu-Yu Chen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2007. He is currently working toward the M.S. degree in the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C. His current research interests include VLSI electronic design automation, large-scale routing, and design for manufacturability/reliability.

Team number: 03


Team: MAFAN

Team member: Jen-Yang Wen
Advisor: Chien-Mo (James) Li
National Taiwan University
Bio: Wen received his B.S. in EE from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2008, and is currently a graduate student in the same university. His current research focus on low power ATPG.

Team member: Cheng-Yin Wu
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Wu received his B.S. in EE from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2008, and is currently a graduate student in the same university. His current research focus on synthesis and verification.

Team number: 04


Team: NTU ALCom

Team member: Bo-Han Wu
Advisor: Jie-Hong Roland Jiang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Interest in programming and physics. Like to participate different activities to improve himself.

Team member: Chia-Chao Kan
Advisor: Jie-Hong Roland Jiang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Kan was born in Keelung, Taiwan, R.O.C. He is a MS student of EE department, NTU. He enjoys the process of brainstorming crazy ideas and programming them into reality. He is currently involved in a project related to hardware IP protection. The interest of Kan includes physics, philosophy, literature and jogging.

Team number: 05


Team: WRXZY

Team member: Kai-Fu Tang
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Kai-Fu Tang is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at National Taiwan University. His research interests include synthesis and verification.

Team member: Chi-An Wu
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Chi-An Wu received the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2008, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the same university. His current research topic focuses on hardware verification.

Team number: 06


Team: FantastiCAD

Team member: Adriel Mota Ziesemer Junior
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Bio: Adriel received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from UFRGS in 2007. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student and his areas of research interest include physical design algorithms for layout generation, placement and routing.

Team member: Felipe de Andrade Pinto
Advisor: Ricardo Reis
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Bio: Felipe is currently a master student in Microelectronics at UFRGS. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science in 2007. His areas of research interest in Microelectronics include Placement, 3D Circuits, Netlist Structure and Timing.

Team number: 07


Team: MadeInTaiwan

Team member: Chih-Ta Lin
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Chih-Ta Lin received the B.S. degree in computer and information science from the National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2004. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer Science, National Chiao-Tung University. His research interests include physical design automation.

Team member: Yen-Hung Lin
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Yen-Hung Lin received the BS degree in computer science and information engineeringfrom the National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC), in 2005. He is currently working toward the PhD degree at the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC. His current research interests include VLSI CAD, safety-critical systems, and formal verification.

Team number: 08


Team: Tai Chao Guo Le

Team member: Ke-Ren Dai
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Ke-Ren Dai received the B.S. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2005, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the same university. His research interests include placement and global routing.

Team member: Wen-Hao Liu
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Wen-Hao Liu received the B.S. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2008, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the same university. His research interests include global routing and clock tree routing.

Team number: 09


Team: CMU-CADathletes

Team member: Wan-Ping Lee
Advisor: Diana Marculescu
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio: Wan-Ping Lee currently is a Ph.D. candidate advised by Professor Chang at National Taiwan University and also a visiting researcher advised by Professor Marculescu at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests lay in the area of floorplanning and placement considering multiple-supply voltage (MSV) design which brings cruel challenges in physical design.

Team member: Kai-Chiang Wu
Advisor: Diana Marculescu
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio: Kai-Chiang Wu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees both in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2002 and 2004. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Diana Marculescu. His research interests include logic synthesis and optimization for circuit reliability in nanoscale designs and emerging technologies.

Team number: 10


Team: Stuck-at-CAD

Team member: Hyein Lee
Advisor: Youngsoo Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Bio: Hyein is currently 2nd year MS student in Electrical Engineering at KAIST. Her research interests include computer-aided design of high performance and low power VLSI circuit designs. She draws a webtoon in her free time. (She is fond of PhD comics.)

Team member: Seungwhun Paik
Advisor: Youngsoo Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Bio: Seungwhun is currently 1st year PhD student in Electrical Engineering at KAIST. His research interests include design methodology for low power, high performance VLSI circuit designs and high-level synthesis. He loves to play basketball in his free time.

Team number: 11


Team: DTDY

Team member: Chin-Hsiung Hsu
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
National Tiawan University
Bio: Chin-Hsiung Hsu is working toward the Ph.D. degree in Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S. in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2005. His research interests are in combinatorial optimization with applications to the VLSI design automation, large-scale global routing and flip-chip design. He has two papers published in the top conferences (DAC and ICCAD).

Team member: Yi-Lin Chuang
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Yi-Lin Chuang received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2006, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at National Taiwan University. His research interests include VLSI placement and power optimization.

Team number: 12


Team: Flying Badgers

Team member: Xie Lin
Advisor: Azadeh Davoodi
University of Wisconsin Madison
Bio: Lin Xie received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engin eering at University of Wisconsin, Madison. His Research interests include statistical timing analysis, circuit simulation, robust circuit optimization, and test for variability.

Team member: Tai-Hsuan Wu
Advisor: Azadeh Davoodi
University of Wisconsin Madison
Bio: Tai-Hsuan Wu is a Ph.D. student in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a B.S. degree in Department of Electrical and Control Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2002. His research interests are in the area of computer-aided design and with an emphasis on power aware and high performance design techniques, parallel optimization, and grid computing environments.

Team number: 13


Team: CAT

Team member: Marc Galceran
Advisor: Jordi Cortadella
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Bio: Marc got his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Currently, he is a PhD student in UPC working on design and optimization of latency insensitive systems.

Team member: Dmitry Bufistov
Advisor: Jordi Cortadella
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Bio: Dmitry got his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Moscow State University in 2005. He is now a PhD student in UPC working on analysis and optimization of latency insensitive systems.

Team number: 14


Team: Cloned

Team member: Mihir Choudhury
Advisor: Kartik Mohanram
Rice University
Bio: Mihir is a 4th year PhD. student in the ECE department at Rice University. His research interests include theoretical and practicl aspects of reliability in nanoscale technologies.

Team number: 15


Team: CAD-Dragons

Team member: Vinayak Honkote
Advisor: Baris Taskin
Drexel University
Bio: Vinayak Honkote is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. He received a Bachelor's degree from Bangalore Institute of Technology (2003) and a Master's degree from Drexel University (2006). His current research topic is Custom Routing Algorithms for Resonant Clocking Technology in MultiGHz Range.

Team member: Jianchao Lu
Advisor: Baris Taskin
Drexel University
Bio: Jianchao Lu received his B.S. in Electronic and Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2007. Now he is working towards Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University. His research interests are statistical timing analysis, IC design and parallel VLSI algorithms.

Team number: 16


Team: Abacus

Team member: Guojie Luo
Advisor: Jason Cong
UCLA
Bio: Guojie Luo received the B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2005, and the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science. His current research interests include physical design algorithms, 3D integration technology and nonlinear optimization.

Team member: Yi Zou
Advisor: Jason Cong
UCLA
Bio: Yi Zou received B.S. and M.S at Tsinghua Univ, Beijing, P.R.China. Currently he is a phd student at CS dept of UCLA. Now he mainly works on reconfigurable computing for a set of applications.

Team number: 17


Team: Westwood

Team member: Wei Jiang
Advisor: Jason Cong
UCLA
Bio: He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking University, China, and is a graduate student in computer science department, UCLA. His research interests include compiler transformations for behavioral synthesis.

Team member: Bin Liu
Advisor: Jason Cong
UCLA
Bio: He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and is a graduate student in computer science department, UCLA. His research interests include behavioral synthesis and system synthesis.

Team number: 18


Team: coders

Team member: Jujhar Singh
Advisor: Sandeep Gupta
USC
Bio: Jujhar Singh is pursuing his MS degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include CAD for VLSI , digital system testing and VLSI architecture.

Team member: Amit K. Ashutosh
Advisor: Sherri Fagan
USC
Bio: Amit K. Ashutosh is a graduate student at Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California. His research interests include programming and computer architecture.

Team number: 19


Team: UC-Tehran

Team member: Zohreh Karimi
Advisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh
UCLA
Bio: PhD Student

Team member: Mohammad Ali Ghodrat
Advisor: Tony Givargis
UC Irvine
Bio: PhD Student

Team number: 20


CADathlon 2008 is over. Congratulations to the winners!