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SIGDA's CADathlon at ICCAD

Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010
8 am - 5 pm
Double Tree Hotel
San Jose, CA


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CADathlon 2009



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R. Iris Bahar

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Team member: Myung-Chul Kim
Advisor: Igor L. Markov
University of Michigan
Bio: Myung-Chul is a graduate student in electrical engineering department at University of Michigan. He received B.S. degree in electronic and electrical engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, and his M.S. at University of Michigan, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree. His research interests are EDA placement, RDL routing, pad assignment, and interconnect modeling.

Team member: Dong-Jin Lee
Advisor: Igor L. Markov
University of Michigan
Bio: Dong-Jin was born in Gwangju, South Korea. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2006 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2008, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. His doctoral work is on EDA clock network synthesis, placement and routing algorithms.

Team number: 01


Unsatisfiable XXX

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 fourth 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 graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is a third year PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in logic synthesis and formal verification.

Team number: 02


CADalpines

Team member: Arvind Sridhar
Advisor: David Atienza
EPFL
Bio: Arvind received B.Eng. in Electronics from Anna University, Madras, India in 2006 and M.A.Sc. in Electronic CAD from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 2009. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at EPFL, Switzerland in the Embedded Systems Laboratory in Thermal Modeling of 3D ICs.

Team member: Alessandro Vincenzi
Advisor: David Atienza
EPFL
Bio: Alessandro received the M.S. in Computer Science in 2009 from University of Verona, Italy, and is going to start the Ph.D. at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. His interests are programming languages, algorithms and parallel architectures.

Team number: 03


Go

Team member: Shao-Huan Wang
Advisor: Wai-Kei Mak
National National Tsing Hua University
Bio: A student from National Tsing Hua University.

Team member: Tsung-Wei Huang
Advisor: Wai-Kei Mak
National Cheng Kung University
Bio: A student from National Cheng Kung University.

Team number: 04


Bear & Rain

Team member: Tu-Hsiung Tsai
Advisor: Hung-Ming Chen
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Tu-Hsiung is a Ph.D. Student at the Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Tu-Hsiung's research is about physical design automation. Tu-Hsiung is happy to participate in the CADathlon.

Team member: Ching-Yu Chin
Advisor: Hung-Ming Chen
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Ching-Yu received the B.S. degree from the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2008. She is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Her research interests include physical design automation and VLSI testing.

Team number: 05


LOL

Team member: Chi-An Wu
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
Ntional Taiwan University
Bio: Chi-An 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 member: Wei-Hsun Lin
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Wei-Hsun is a master student at Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, NTU. He is interested in both programming and math. His current research focus is on engineering change order.

Team number: 06


DVLAB

Team member: Bo-Han Wu
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Bo-Han is a PhD student at National Taiwan University. He has great interests in programming, and his research focuses on the engineering change order problem and constrained random verification.

Team member: Chun-Nan Chou
Advisor: Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Chun-Nan received his B.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, in 2006. Now he is a Ph.D. candidate in EDA Group, Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University. His research interests are Formal Technology on Electronic System Level and CAD tools for Electronic System Level.

Team number: 07


CW10

Team member: Jia Wang
Advisor: Shiyan Hu
Michigan Tech
Bio: Jia is a PhD candidate in the ECE Department.

Team member: Xiaodao Chen
Advisor: Shiyan Hu
Michigan Tech
Bio: Xiaodao is a PhD candidate in the ECE Department.

Team number: 08


Goal

Team member: Li-Jui Chen
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Li-Jui received the B.S. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2009, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the same university.

Team member: Tsung-Han Wu
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Tsung-Han received the B.S. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2010, and is the master student at the same university.

Team number: 09


Golden City

Team member: Ke-Ren Dai
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Ke-Ren 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: Yun-Jian Lo
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li
National Chiao Tung University
Bio: Yun-Jian is a Master's student in the College of Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. He received his B.S. degree in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2007.

Team number: 10


The Team

Team member: Zyad Hassan
Advisor: Fabio Somenzi
University of Colorado at Boulder
Bio: Zyad received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2006, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include computer-aided design of integrated circuits and formal verification.

Team member: Saqib Sohail
Advisor: Fabio Somenzi
University of Colorado at Boulder
Bio: Saqib's interests are in Game Theory and its application to logic synthesis and bug corrections.

Team number: 11


ICCODE

Team member: Manu Jose
Advisor: Rupak Majumdar
UCLA
Bio: Manu did his undergrad at National Institute of Technology, Calicut India and spent 4 years in the EDA industry at Synopsys and Axiom Design Automation. Then he joined University of California, Los Angeles as a graduate student. His paper "Rewiring for Robustness" was selected as a best paper nominee in DAC this year. His research interests are VLSI physical synthesis, logic synthesis, Formal verification and detecting hardware trojans.

Team member: Abde Ali Kagalwalla
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
UCLA
Bio: Abde is a graduate student and researcher in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. He completed his undergraduate studies from IIT Bombay, India. His research interests include physical design and DFM.

Team number: 12


WESTWOOD RELOADED

Team member: Bin Liu
Advisor: Jason Cong
UCLA
Bio: Bin received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and is a Ph.D. candidate in the computer science department, UCLA. His research interests include high-level synthesis, compilers, and low-power design techniques.

Team member: Yi Zou
Advisor: Jason Cong
UCLA
Bio: Yi received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and is a Ph.D. candidate in the computer science department, UCLA. His research interests include heterogeneous computing platforms for application acceleration.

Team number: 13


Infinite

Team member: Xin-Wei Shih
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Xin-Wei received the B.S. degree in computer science from National Tsing Hua University in 2008. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University. His current research interests focus on clock-tree synthesis for modern high-performance nanometer synchronous chip design.

Team member: Meng-Kai Hsu
Advisor: Yao-Wen Chang
National Taiwan University
Bio: Meng-Kai received a Double B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2007. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering at National Taiwan University. He is a member of the EDA group, and his research interest is VLSI placement.

Team number: 14


CAD-Irvine

Team member: Deepak Mishra
Advisor: Elaheh Bozorgzadeh
University of California, Irvine
Bio: Deepak is a second year PhD candidate at UCI.

Team member: Hessam Kooti
Advisor: Elaheh Bozorgzadeh
University of California, Irvine
Bio: Hessam is a third year PhD candidate at UCI.

Team number: 15


AK47

Team member: Ashutosh Chakraborty
Advisor: David Z. Pan
University of Texas at Austin
Bio: Ashutosh received his B.Tech. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IIT Delhi (India), and UT Austin respectively. He is currently a PhD candidate at UT Austin. His research interests include power and reliability optimization as well as 3D IC physical design.

Team member: Kun Yuan
Advisor: David Z. Pan
University of Texas at Austin
Bio: Kun 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 the UTDA group at University of Texas. His research interest is VLSI physical design.

Team number: 16


Persepolis

Team member: Amir Hossein Gholamipour
Advisor: Fadi Kurdahi
University of California, Irvine
Bio: Amir is a graduate student at UC Irvine. His passions in life include family, friends, music, procrastination and sometimes research.

Team member: Behzad Sajadi
Advisor: Aditi Majumdar
University of California, Irvine
Bio: Behzad is a graduate student at UC Irvine. Hadn't he been a graduate student he would've most probably been the next Mr Olympia.

Team number: 17


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