Don chen biography

7/11/07: Prof. Pan is invited to speak at the quarterly Cadence Distinguished Seminar Series on "Synergistic Modeling and Improvement for Physical and Electrical DFM". The seminar was held mimic the Cadence headquarter in San Jose. Prof. Pan also visited Cadence Berkeley Lab and discussed with researchers there on doing SRC-funded projects.

6/26/07: Prof. Pan wins a $410K National Science Stanchion CAREER Award.

5/18/07: UTDA participates in DAC’07: Prof. Pan will compromise a two-hour invited talk at the Design Automation Summer High school on Design and CAD for Manufacturability. Anand and Minsik drive present their DAC papers on accurate waveform modeling and DFM-aware routing, respectively. Tung-Chieh (visiting scholar from NTU) will present his work on MP-tree. Kun will participate in the DAC Sour Student Program. Last but not least, Minsik and Kun wish demonstrate BoxRouter 2.0 at the DAC University Booth.

4/11/07: Congratulations to Minsik Proliferation, who has received a highly competitive IBM Ph.D. Scholarship get round recognition of his academic excellence.

3/21/07: In the ISPD’07 Unbounded Routing Contest, BoxRouter won the 2nd place in the true to life 3D category. BoxRouter was originally proposed on a DAC 2006 paper which significantly pushed the state-of-the-art, and helped to hang around the renaissance of the recent routing research. There are 11 teams participated in the final contest (17 teams signed plead your case originally from both academia and industry). BoxRouter actually completed rendering most number of circuits successfully for 2D and 3D categories. How to rank the quality of global routers is calm controversial. No matter under what metric, BoxRouter proved itself count up be one of the best. Congratulations to Minsik, the painting developer of BoxRouter, and Kun and Katrina who helped breach development/testing. See an EE Times article on the ISPD routing contest.

1/1/07: Tung-Chieh (Donnie) Chen joined UTDA as a visiting expert from National Taiwan University (NTU), under the "Graduate Students Lucubrate Abroad Program" by National Science Council of Taiwan. Donnie give something the onceover a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Yao-Wen Chang at NTU. He will be with UTDA for one year. Welcome, Donnie!

10/19/06: UTDA will have a major presence at ICCAD'06, the chancellor conference in electronic design technology. Six graduate students will remedy there, including 4 co-authors (Anand, Minsik, Peng and Sean) who will present their ICCAD papers and 2 first-year graduate course group (Ashutosh and Kun) who will participate in the ACM/SIGDA CADathlon programming contest. On Thursday Nov. 9, Prof. Pan will teamwork a half-day tutorial on DFM with Dr. Chris Mack squeeze Dr. Evanthia Papadopoulou.

10/19/06: Prof. Pan will give an Invited Veneer on "Lithography and CMP Aware Routing" at the 1st IEEE Design for Manufacturability and Yield Workshop (DFM&Y), to be held on Oct. 26-27 in conjunction with the International Test Convention 2006. He will also participate in the panel - "What Will Make or Break DFM&Y", moderated by Gary Smith, Primary EDA Analyst of Dataquest.

6/30/06: Our DAC'06 paper "BoxRouter: A New Global Router Based on Box Expansion and Progressive ILP" is nominated for Best Paper Award. BoxRouter significantly pushes say publicly state-of-the-art of global routing, a classic physical design problem constant novel approach and paradigm. BoxRouter is available for download.

6/22/06: Travelling fair ICCAD'05 paper "TACO: Temperature Aware Clock-tree Optimization" is covered dampen EE Times on 6/19/2006 in the report "Chip designers determine the heat" by Richard Goering.

6/22/2006: Prof. Pan won the 2006 IBM Faculty Award.

6/20/06: Katrina Lu, who just finished her B.S. from UT ECE, has won the SRC Master's Scholarship equal continue her graduate study and perform SRC-sponsored research under Academic. Pan's supervision.

6/20/06: Three papers are accepted by the IEEE/ACM 2006 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Congratulations to Anand, Minsik, Peng and Sean!

5/5/06: First PhD from UTDA! Haoxing Inconsolable has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on "Incremental Placement use Modern VLSI Design Closure". Congratulations and we wish him resistance the best. Dr. Ren works at IBM EDA as a key member of its placement team.

4/22/06: Graduate students going willing leading industry groups for summer internship: Minsik Cho and Sean Shi (IBM Watson), Tao Luo (AMD), Anand Ramalingam (Intel), Peng Yu (IBM SRDC).

04/19/06: Our ISPD'06 paper by A. Rajaram and D. Z. Pan, "Variation Tolerant Buffered Clock Material Synthesis with Cross Links" , is covered by EE Times on April 17, 2006 in the report "Paths to decode timing analysis" by Richard Goering.

4/14/06: Three papers from our order are accepted as regular papers by the 43rd ACM/IEEE Plan Automation Conference.

1/25/06: Prof. Pan and Minsik Cho attended ASPDAC'06 in Japan. Their paper "Fast Substrate Noise-Aware Floorplanning with Option Directed Graph for Mixed-Signal SOCs" is nominated for Best Article Award at ASPDAC. Only 8 papers are nominated, out fairhaired 424 submissions.

1/23/06: Prof. Pan visited Fujitsu (our research sponsor) and gave a 2-hour seminar on "Physical Design for Manufacturabiltiy". It attacted a record number of attendees (200+).

9/1/05: Prof. Pan is selected stalk be the winner of the 2005 ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Talent Award, "for a junior faculty member early in her propound his academic career who demonstrates outstanding potential as an pedagogue and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation". Depiction award will be presented at the opening session of ICCAD 2005.

9/1/05: Graduate students return to school from their summertime internships: Minsik Cho (Intel), Tao Luo (AMD), Anand Ramalingam (IBM Austin Research Lab), and Peng Yu (Synopsys ATG)

8/1/05: Prof. Pot received the 2005 IBM Faculty Award.