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SIGDA's CADathlon at ICCAD

Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004
8 am - 6 pm
Double Tree Hotel
San Jose, CA



 

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CADathlon 2003



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Dr. Soha Hassoun

Team: MSCAD

Team Member: Bo Hu 
Advisor:  Richard Shi
University:  University of Washington
Bo is a PhD candidate in the EE department at University of Washington. He received his Bachelor in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China and Master in Electrical Engineering at University of Washington. His current research interests compact device model compiler, RF simulation, statistical analysis, symbolic model order reduction, RF design and non-linear circuit behavioral modeling.
Team Member: Lili Zhou 
Advisor:  Richard Shi
University:  University of Washington
Lili is a third year graduate student in the EE department at University of Washington. She received her Bachelor and Master in Electrical Engineering at Fudan University,China. Her current research interests include mixed-signal and analog circuit simulation, behavioral modeling, mixed-signal and analog circuit design and optimization algorithms.

Team: Pittsburgh Panthers

Team Member: Bryan Brady 
Advisor:  Ivan Kourtev
University:  University of Pittsburgh
Bryan received the B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Currently Bryan is a second year graduate student in the ECE Department, and is advised by Ivan Kourtev. His research interests are in VLSI CAD algorithms.
Team Member: Joshua Lucas 
Advisor:  Alex Jones
University:  University of Pittsburgh
Josh is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering in 2003. Data structures and algorithms for VLSI CAD are his primary research interests.

Team: Michigan-gamma

Team Member: George F. Viamontes 
Advisor:  Igor L. Markov and John P. Hayes
University:  University of Michigan
George is a fourth year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2001 and his master's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2003. He is currently a Department of Energy High-Performance Computer Science Fellow and recently did some work on quantum computing and communication at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research centers around developing new algorithms and heuristics for computationally difficult scientific problems, including simulation of quantum mechanics. For more information, see http
Team Member: Kai-hui Chang 
Advisor:  Igor L. Markov
University:  University of Michigan
Kai-hui Chang is currently a Ph D student at the University of Michigan, majoring in computer science & engineering. He got his master's and bachelor's degree in National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He has been working for Avery Design Systems, an EDA company focusing on functional verification and distributed simulation, between 2001-1004.

Team: Parrot

Team Member: Gustavo Neuberger 
Advisor:  Ricardo Reis
University:  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Gustavo is a PhD student at UFRGS working with design and automatic generation of fault-tolerant circuits. He received his BS degree in Computer Engineering at UFRGS in 2003. His research interests include physical design, design of fault tolerant circuits, design for manufacturability and analytical placement.
Team Member: Renato Fernandes Hentschke 
Advisor:  Ricardo Reis
University:  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Renato is a PhD student at UFRGS working with place and route algorithms for routability and timing optimization. He achieved his master degree in computer science at UFRGS in 2002. His research interests are timing and congestion driven physical design, logic synthesis for physical improvement, fault tolerance and high level design space exploration.

Team: Gig'em CADggies

Team Member: Nikhil Jayakumar 
Advisor:  Sunil P. Khatri
University:  Texas A&M University, College Station
Nikhil Jayakumar received his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Madras, India and his Massters degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has publications in a variety of topics in VLSI/CAD including formal verification, clock network design and routing methodologies. He is currently working towards a Ph.D in ELectrical Engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station. His current research focusses on low power design methodologies.
Team Member: C. N. Sze (Cliff) 
Advisor:  Jiang Hu
University:  Texas A&M University, College Station
C. N. Sze received his B. Eng. and M. Phil. degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999 and 2001 respectively. Currently, he is working towards the Ph. D. degree in Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, computer-aided design technique for very large scale integreation, physical design, and performance-driven interconnect synthesis.

Team: The Complete-NPs

Team Member: Azadeh Davoodi 
Advisor:  Ankur Srivastava
University:  University of Maryland
Azadeh Davoodi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Tehran in 1999 and the M.S. degree from University of Maryland, College Park in 2002, where she is currently working toward the PhD degree. Her research interests include design automation under uncertainty, low-power design and noise-aware optimization.
Team Member: Vishal Khandelwal 
Advisor:  Ankur Srivastava
University:  University of Maryland
Vishal Khandelwal received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India in 2002. He is currently working toward the PhD degree at the department of electrical and computer engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. His primary research interests include design under uncertainty, leakage power optimization, logic and physical synthesis.

Team: TeamOne

Team Member: Debashis Sahoo 
Advisor:  David Dill
University:  Stanford University
Debashis Sahoo is a PhD student at Stanford in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He received his Bachelors of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India in Computer Science and Engineering. His current research is in the area of formal verification of hardware design. His interests include logic, theory of algorithms and complexity.
Team Member: Subramanian Iyer 
Advisor:  E Allen Emerson
University:  University of Texas at Austin
Subramanian Iyer is a PhD candidate at in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin in the area of Automatic Formal Verification. His current research is on data structures and algorithms for efficient and effective symbolic Model Checking. His other interests include logic and distributed computing.

Team: UICad

Team Member: Karthik Krishnamoorthy  
Advisor:  Prof. Florin Balasa
University:  Univ. of IL at Chicago
Karthik is currently a PhD student in ECE at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interest include CAD for VLSI, esp. analog floorplanning/placement and routing. He interned at Intel Corp. in summer of '04.
Team Member: Hosung (Leo) Kim 
Advisor:  Prof. John Lillis
University:  Univ. of IL at Chicago
Hosung(Leo) Kim is currently a doctoral candidate in computer science at the university of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include design automation for VLSI, particularly logic synthesis and timing optimization.

Team: The Sinking Vikings

Team Member: Maxim Teslenko 
Advisor:  Hannu Tenhunen
University:  Royal Instutute of Technology

 

Team Member: Andres Martinelli 
Advisor:  Elena Dubrova
University:  Royal Instutute of Technology

Team: CadMinn

Team Member: Jaskirat Singh 
Advisor:  Sachin Sapatnekar
University:  University of Minnesota
Jaskirat Singh obtained his B.E. in Electronincs and Communication from Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee in 2000.
Team Member: Vidyasagar Nookala 
Advisor:  Sachin Sapatnekar
University:  University of Minnesota
Sagar Nookala obtained the B.E. (Electronics Engineering) degree from MNREC, Allahabad, India, and the M.S. (Electrical Engineering) degree at The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he is presently working for a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. His research interests are combinatorial optimization, physical design and computer architecture.

Team: CADmus

Team Member: Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish 
Advisor:  Kurt Keutzer
University:  University of California, Berkeley
Nadathur Satish is a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 2003 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with a B.Tech(H) degree in Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include system-level design and reconfigurable logic design. He currently works in the MESCAL group at UC Berkeley in developing architectures for high-performance network applications on FPGA's.
Team Member: Qi Zhu 
Advisor:  Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
University:  University of California, Berkeley
Qi Zhu is a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the Tsinghua University in 2003. He is interested in system-level design, computer architecture, physical design, etc. Qi is currently working on the Metropolis project at Berkeley.

Team: NU

Team Member: ZHENYU GU 
Advisor:  ROBERT P. DICK
University:  NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Second year PH.D. student
Team Member: JIA WANG 
Advisor:  HAI ZHOU
University:  NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Second year PH.D. student

Team: Michigan Alpha

Team Member: Zaher Andraus 
Advisor:  Karem Sakallah
University:  University of Michigan
Zaher is a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan. His research thus far has focused on verification, and in particular the automatic abstraction of Verilog models. He received a Bs.c. in Computer Engineering from the Technion in 2002, and an M.S. from the University of Michigan in 2004. Zaher has also worked at Intel and interned at Synopsys.
Team Member: Paul Darga 
Advisor:  Karem Sakallah
University:  University of Michigan
Paul is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Michigan. His research interests span the spectrum of verification, from breaking symmetries in Boolean satisfiability formulas to designing type systems for robust software. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Detroit Mercy in 2001, and his M.S. in Computer Science in 2003.

Team: Michigan Beta

Team Member: Jarrod Roy 
Advisor:  Igor Markov
University:  University of Michigan
Jarrod Roy is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. His areas of interest include physical design, SAT and QBF solving, and complexity theory. He received his B.S. in Computer Science (with university honors) from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2001 with an additional major in mathematics.
Team Member: Gabe Black 
Advisor:  Igor Markov
University:  University of Michigan
Gabe Black is a PhD student at the University of Michigan where he received his Bachelor's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. His current area of work is quantum synthesis, and his main area of interest is computer architecture.

Team: FM305

Team Member: Zhaohui Fu 
Advisor:  Sharad Malik
University:  Princeton University
Zhaohui is a 3rd year EE PhD student at Princeton University. His research interests include Boolean Satisfiability and formal verification techniques.
Team Member: Yogesh Mahajan 
Advisor:  Sharad Malik
University:  Princeton University
Yogesh is a 3rd year EE graduate at Princeton University.

Team: Circuit Breakers

Team Member: Daniel L. Rosenband 
Advisor:  Arvind
University:  MIT
Daniel is a graduate student at MIT. His research focus is on high-level synthesis. He is also interested in computer architecture.
Team Member: Nirav Dave 
Advisor:  Arvind
University:  MIT
Nirav is a second year graduate student at MIT. His current research focuses on large-scale design in high-level synthesis languages and RTL-level simulations of multi-processor systems.

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