ASP-DAC 2020 Conference Proposal

July 11, 2016

We are very enthusiastic to propose the idea of hosting ASP-DAC 2020 in Beijing, from January 13 toJanuary 16, in Beijing International Convention Center (BICC). This proposal is organized as follows:

• Why: Section 1 will discuss the reasons that we believe ASP-DAC 2020 should be host in Beijing

• Who: Section 2 will present the proposed organizing committee members and sponsors

• Where/When: Section 3 will give details on the proposed venue and dates

1 Why: Reasons to Host ASP-DAC in BeijingWe believe that there are many strong reasons to bring ASP-DAC to Beijing. As China’s capital, Beijing isone of the world’s truly imposing cities. With a 3,000 years History and 11 million people, covering 16,808square kilometers in area, it is the political, cultural and economic center of the People’s Republic of China.

The Booming of IC Industry in China. China is already the biggest manufacturer of electronics, and alsoone of the largest markets for them. In 2013, China-based companies made almost 1.5 billion mobile phonesand 340 million PCs, and the country integrated circuit imports reached US $231 billion. On June 26,2014, the government published new policy guidelines1, laying out a blueprint to develop the domesticintegrated circuit industry, propping up its IC design and EDA industry with new policies and financialsupport intended to turn the country into a semiconductor-making powerhouse by 2030.

Strong IC Design/EDA Research in China. Research in IC design and design automation has been veryactive in China. Recent ASPDAC submission statistics have shown that a large percentage of paper subms-sions/accepted papers are from China or China-born professors/researchers from US or Europe (For exam-ple, in ASPDAC2013, 41 out of 311 submissions were from China). The submission statistics in the last 10years of ASP-DAC’s history (see Table 1) show that the ASP-DAC submissions from China is always amongthe Top 3 Asia countries (together with Taiwan and Japan). In addition, Beijing has many top universitiessuch as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Chinese Academy of Science.

First ASP-DAC in Beijing (second time in Mainland China). Even though there are very active R&Dactivities in China, ever since the beginning of ASP-DAC in 1995, during its almost 20-years’ history, ithas never been held in Beijing, the capital of China. In fact, it was only held once in Mainland China,which was ASPDAC 2005 in Shanghai (see Table 2 for the locations of prior ASP-DAC conferences). Ifthe bidding is successful, it will be the first time that ASP-DAC comes to Beijing, and the second time inmainland China.

1http://www.pcworld.com/article/2367300/china-sets-out-to-become-global-leader-in-chip-manufacturing.html

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Boosting the Influence of ASP-DAC and The Attendees/Submissions. Since China has a large popula-tion of IC designers, it always attracts a large number of local attendees when an International conference isheld in China. Due to the booming of China’s high-tech industry/economy, it can also attract a large numberof foreign attendees from overseas. Such trends have been demonstrated by many other conferences (such asInternational Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2008, International Symposium on Circuits andSystems (ISCAS) 2013), and also demonstrated by ASP-DAC 2005, when ASP-DAC was held in Shanghai,the submission number was the peak in ASP-DAC’s history (692 submissions, compared to the average 300submissions in other years). Even if we didn’t count all the submissions from China in that year (214), therest of 478 submissions from other countries was still the record in ASP-DAC’s history. We strongly believethat ASP-DAC 2020 in Beijing will have the same “magnetic” for researchers/engineers from both Chinaand other countries, and make another new record in ASP-DAC’s history, not only in submission/attendeenumbers, but also in the program’s quality.

A Win-win proposal for both ASP-DAC and China’s IC academia/industry. If ASP-DAC 2020 is heldin Beijing, it will help the influence and recognition of ASP-DAC conference by more of local academiaand industry who are working in this field. On the other hand, ASP-DAC attendees, especially graduatingpostgraduate students, will be able to find potential job and academia opportunities in China, especiallyin Beijing, the capital of China. China has given the IC industry a very high priority in the next 10 yearswith billions of investment, we believe more researchers from both industry and academia will pay moreattentions to ASPDAC conferences in the future. If we can have this great event in China, it will bring greatbenefits to both China IC industry and ASPDAC conference.

Will Air Pollution Be A Concern? One of the concerns of hosting a conference in Beijing may be theserious air pollution issues in the past several years. Attendees may worry of visiting Beijing during wintertime, when air pollution was serious. Fortunately, Chinese government has realized this issue, and has pro-posed many effective ways to fight the air pollution problem. In fact, Beijing’s government has guaranteeda 5% PM2.5 decrease in early 2014. We believe that when ASPDAC is held in 2020, which is almost 3.5years from now, the air pollution problem has been well under controlled by the government.

Table 1: submission numbers from different areas in previous ASPDAC.

Country 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004USA 71 75 73 109 105 92 129 155 205 95China 39 45 39 41 43 67 61 57 214 36

Taiwan 52 37 44 52 54 34 40 42 43 32Japan 24 24 31 33 50 31 44 52 45 36

Germany 19 14 - - - - - - - -Korea 12 12 11 16 9 33 23 21 30 18India 8 11 13 13 21 25 19 15 15 9

Hong Kong 12 10 - - - - - - - -Canada 7 9 8 11 5 - 15 11 23 -France 6 7 10 3 6 - 3 12 8 -

Iran 6 4 11 9 13 - 21 12 16 -Others 55 39 60 53 54 11 53 47 98 38Total 311 287 300 340 355 350 408 424 692 291

2 Who: Organizing Committee and SponosorsThis section gives a brief overview of the possible organizing committee members. The CV for selected OCmembers are attached at the end of the proposal as appendix.

Both general co-chairs Prof. Yuan Xie and Prof. Huazhong Yang are well-known world-class leadingexpert in many areas. Yuan Xie has also been a very active participant in ASP-DAC, with 25 ASPDAC

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Table 2: Previous ASPDAC with place and time.

ASPDAC No. Place and Time21st ASP-DAC Macao (2016)20th ASP-DAC Makuhari, Japan (Jan 19-22, 2015)19th ASP-DAC Singapore (Jan.20-23, 2014)18th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.22-25, 2013)17th ASP-DAC Sydney, Australia (Jan.30-Feb.2, 2012)16th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.25-28, 2011)15th ASP-DAC Taipei, Taiwan (Jan.18-21, 2010)14th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.19-22, 2009)13th ASP-DAC Seoul, Korea (Jan.21-24, 2008)12th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.23-26, 2007)11th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.24-27, 2006)10th ASP-DAC Shanghai, China (Jan.18-21, 2005)9th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.27-30, 2004)8th ASP-DAC Kitakyushu, Japan (Jan.21-24, 2003)7th ASP-DAC Bangalore, India (Jan.7-11, 2002) (with VLSI Design 2002)6th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.30-Feb.2, 2001)5th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.25-28, 2000)4th ASP-DAC Hong Kong (Jan.18-21, 1999)3rd ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Feb.10-13, 1998)2nd ASP-DAC Makuhari, Japan (Jan.28-31, 1997)1st ASP-DAC Makuhari, Japan (Aug.29-Sep.1, 1995) (with VLSI95, CHDL95)

papers, and 3 ASPDAC Best Paper Candidates, 1 ASPDAC Best Paper Award, and both general co-chairs have worked as TPC chair and vice-chair for ASPDAC 2013.

The team has worked together in the TPC of ASPDAC for years, and the TPC meeting organizationfor ASP-DAC 2013 (TPC meeting held in Tsinghua University in Beijing, September 2012). Both Prof.Yu Wang and Prof. Rong Luo are from Beijing, and serve as the secretaries for OC, because they did thesimilar work as in the TPC meeting of ASP-DAC 2013. Prof. Nozomu Togawa who also serves as theOC secretary will help to coordinate with EC. The rest of the OC worked together in ASP-DAC TPC, andthey have a successful experience in organizing the International Symposium on Low Power ElectronicDesign (ISLPED) 2013 in Beijing, which was highly recognized as one of the best in ISLPED’s history.The proposed OC members and their affiliations are listed in Table 3.

Sponsorship: The Conference Sponsors will include IEEE/CAS, ACM/SIGDA, Beijing Chapter of IEEE/CAS,IEEE CEDA, and ACM SIGDA.

Local Academia Sponsorship will include Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academicof Science, and NSFC. These local institutes have been confirmed to be the sponsor of ASPDAC 2020, butthe formal confirmation letters will be available later.

Possible industrial financial support will include the following companies: a) EDA companies suchas Huada Empyrean Software, Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor graphics; b) System Companies such asHuawei, Microsoft, IBM; c) IC Design companies such as AMD, intel, MediaTek; d) Foundries such asTSMC, Globalfoundry, and SMIC.

The organizing committee is composed of the following professors as shown in Table 3 (CVs of theselected committee members are provided in the appendix).

3 Where/When: The Proposed Conference Venue and DateWe propose ASP-DAC 2020 to be held in the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC). BICC islocated in the Olympic Village, a flourishing area of Beijing, which has a collection of conference centers,businesses, shopping centers and entertainment venues. BICC is right across the street from the center of

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2008 Beijing Olympic Games C Beijing National Stadium, known as the ”Bird’s Nest”, and the AquaticCenter, known as the ”Water Cube”.

Table 3: The organizing committee.

Title Name Affiliation

General Co-Chairs Yuan Xie University of California at Santa Barbara, USAHuazhong Yang Tsinghua University, China

SecretariesYu Wang Tsinghua University, ChinaRong Luo Tsinghua University, China

Nozomu Togawa Waseda University, JapanLocal Arrangement Chair Guang-yu Sun Peking University, China

Tutorials Chair Yu Hu Chinese academy of sciences, China

Finance Co-Chairs Yun Liang Peking University, ChinaYin-he Han Chinese academy of sciences, China

Publicity Co-ChairsFan Yang Fudan University, China

Deming Chen UIUC, USAKoji Inoue Kyushu University, Japan

Publication Chair Yu-chun Ma Tsinghua University, ChinaRegistration Chair Zuo-chang Ye Tsinghua University, China

Industry Liaison Chair Wen-ting Hou Mediatek, ChinaDesign Contest Chair Wenjian Yu Tsinghua University, China

Exhibition Chair Yong-pan Liu Tsinghua University, ChinaWeb Chair Guo-jie Luo Peking University, China

Designers Forum Chair Qiang Xu Chinese University in HK, ChinaStudent Forum Chair Jiang Xu HKUST, China

Convention Facilities and Services: BICC has a total of 60,000 square meters and has over 40 conferencerooms. It has an Exhibition Hall of 5,000 square meters and 20,000 square meters of office space. Thisconference hall is equipped with state-of-art auxiliary facilities, simultaneous interpretation system for sixlanguages, projection devices and adjustable lighting system. VIP rooms are also available.

Convenient Transportation: BICC is on the North 4th Ring Road of Beijing and along the capital axisline. It is 20 kilometers from the Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) and 9 kilometers from thecity center. From the airport, the easiest way to reach BICC is to take a taxi, which will cost about 100CNY.It can be also reached by Airport Express Line from Terminal 3 or Terminal 2 to Sanyuanqiao station, thentake subway line 10 to Beitucheng station, and transfer subway line 8 to the Olympic park station.

Hotel Capacity and Expected Room Rates: There are abundant hotels close to BICC at reasonably goodrates including Intercontinental Hotel, Beijing Continental Grand Hotel, Best Western OL Stadium Hotel,

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Grand SkyLight Catic Hotel, Celebrity International Grand Hotel,etc. A five-start hotel room costs around800-1000CNY, while a four-star hotel room costs around 400-600CNY.

Proposed Social Program. The social program will be held on the Hall for Listening to Orioles in Sum-mer Palace. The ancient Chinese liken the warble of an oriole to beautiful songs and melodies, hence thename. The hall used to be a theater. When the Great Theatre Building was completed, it served as a resi-dence for imperial concubines. Zhenfei, the concubine of Emperor Guangxu, was put house arrest here afterthe 1898 Reform Movement failed because she was strong supporter of the Reform.

Now the hall is one of the most famous restaurants in China, featuring imperial dishes and desserts. Itis a must for many foreign visitors to have lunch here when they come to Beijing. More than one hundredheads of state worldwide have dined here and the late Premier Zhou Enlai has held banquets here in honorof state guests.

We arrange two excursions during ASPDAC 2013 TPC meeting in Beijing, one is the inside city tour(Forbidden City, and etc), the other is a outside city tour (Great Wall, and etc). We can organize or arrange

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more interesting 2-3 day or even longer time tours to Xian, Haerbin, and etc.

When: Proposed Conference Date. We propose the dates for ASP-DAC 2020 to be Jan 13-16, 2020. Itis more than two-week before the Lunar Chinese New Year (Jan. 25). There are no related conferences tobe held at the same time.

4 First pass budget4.1 Incomes: ∼270K$

Including registration:400 Regs, $600 average per Reg, totally 240K$, and sponsorship:30K$∼50K$

4.2 Expense: ∼270K$

Including the items as shown in Table 4:

Table 4: Expense budget.

Use BudgetSurplus 20% X 270K$

TPC/OC meeting 10K$

PublicityPrinting and AD 10K$USB/PAD bags 10K$IEEE Pub fee 10K$

Finance related Registration web 15K$ (5% of the reg)VISA payment charge 3K$ (3-5% of all the payment by VISA card)

On-siteConference room 25K$

Food 60K$Banquet 65K$

Student travel/design contest award 10K$Total 270K$

5 Additional ConsiderationDescription of involvement of the local academic or industrial EDA / LSI Design fields. Local

academia and industrial EDA and LSI Design companies have taken active part in the bidding and organizingthis conference.

Proposals for Tutorials (highly recommended to be held). We propose 4 paid tutorials to be con-ducted in ASP-DAC 2020, mainly for Design Automation for X (X can be anything that is interesting to theAudience). Some free tutorials can also be arranged, for example, Xilinx Professor Workshops.

Proposals for LSI Design contest (highly recommended to be held). We will include the LSI De-sign Contest in our program. We have some experiences in organizing the Design contest in both FPGAconferences and the ISLPED design contest.

Proposals for the EDA exhibition or related activities. We will give the exhibition opportunities to thesponsors, and we will push design automation to not only devices/circuits, but also various other systems.

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CVs of the selected committee members:

General Co-ChairsYuan XieUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, USAYuan Xie is currently a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the PennsylvaniaState University and will join University of California at Santa Barbara starting from July 1, 2014. He hasworked for IBM Microelectronic Division as design engineer before joining Penn State. He also took leavefrom Penn State and helped AMD start Beijing R&D center and led the AMD Research China team from2012 to 2013. Prof. Xie is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) award,the SRC Inventor Recognition Award, IBM Faculty Award, and several Best Paper Award and Best PaperAward Nominations at IEEE/ACM conferences. He has published more than 200 research papers in journalsand refereed conference proceedings, in the area of EDA, computer architecture, VLSI circuit designs, andembedded systems. He has served as TPC chair for ASPDAC 2013 and TPC vice-chair for ASPDAC 2012.He also served as general co-chair and TPC co-chair for ISLPED 2014 and 2013, respectively. He is cur-rently Associate Editor for ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), IEEETransactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Transactions on Computer AidedDesign of Integrated Circuits (TCAD), IEEE Design and Test of Computers, IET Computers and DigitalTechniques (IET CDT).Huazhong YangTsinghua University, ChinaHuazhong Yang is currently a Professor in the department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.Dr. Yang is a recipient of National Outstanding Youth Fund Project, and he is also a professor of YangtzeRiver scholars authorized by the Ministry of education. His research focuses on the IoT chip design andrelated application systems, SoC low power circuits and systems, EDA technology, etc. He has publishedmore than 330 research papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, and gained more than 70Chinese patents authority. He served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Tran CAS-II from January 2010 toDecember 2013. He is the Associate Editor of?International Journal of Electronics from 2007 and Journal ofCircuits, Systems, and Computers from 2009. He organized the TPC meeting of ASPDAC 2013 as co-chairswith Prof. Yuan Xie.

SecretariesYu WangTsinghua University, ChinaDr. Yu Wang is an Associate Prof. in EE Dept, Tsinghua University. Dr. Wang’s research mainly focuses onparallel circuit analysis, application specific hardware computing (especially on the Brain related problems),and power and reliability aware system design methodology. Dr. Wang has authored and coauthored over100 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is the recipient of IBM X10 Facaulty Award in 2010,Best Paper Award in ISVLSI 2012, Best Poster Award in HEART 2012, and 6 Best Paper Nomination inASPDAC/CODES/ISLPED. He serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Trans on CAD, Journal of Circuits,Systems, and Computers. He serves as the TPC secretary for ASPDAC 2013, and serves as the ASPDACTPC member from 2010 to 2012 and 2014/15. He was the TPC Co-Chair of ICFPT 2011, Finance Chair ofISLPED 2012/2013/2014, and serves as TPC member in many important conferences (DAC, FPGA, DATE,ASPDAC, ISLPED, ISQED, ICFPT, ISVLSI, etc).Rong LuoTsinghua University, ChinaDr. Rong Luo is an Associate Prof. in EE Dept, Tsinghua University. Dr. Luo mainly focuses on theresearch related to hardware computing and data mining based technology for big data applications, design

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methedology for wearable devices. She has authored and coauthored over 50 papers in refereed journalsand conferences. Dr. Luo serves as the general secretary of Beijing EDA/SOPC association from 2010. Sheserves as the logistic chair for ASPDAC 2013 TPC meeting.Nozomu Togawa (Tentative)Waseda University, JapanDr. Nozomu Togawa is currently a professor in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda Uni-versity. Dr. Nozomu Togawa’s research mainly focuses on SoC design methodology and image/commmunicationprocessing related to SoC design. Dr. Nozomu Togawa received a number of awards including the BestPaper Award of IEEE ASPDAC 1995, the Azusa Ono Award of Waseda University, and the 2006 IEEEDAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest 1st Place.

Local Arrangement ChairGuang-yu SunPeking University, ChinaDr. Guangyu Sun is an assistant professor of Center for Energy-efficient Computing and Applications(CECA) at Peking University. He received his B.S. and M.S degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing,in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the PennsylvaniaState University in 2011. His research interests include computer architecture, VLSI Design, and electronicdesign automation (EDA). He has published 40+ journals and refereed conference papers in these areas. Dr.Sun is an active volunteer in the communities of computer architecture, VLSI, and design automation. Hehas been serving as a program committee member and track chair for several conferences in these areas,including DATE, ASP-DAC, GLSVLSI, VLSID, and NAS. He served as the local arrangement chair andin TPC for ISLPED 2013. He has also served as a peer reviewer and technical referee for several journals,which include IEEE Micro, IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAD, etc.

Tutorials ChairYu HuChinese academy of sciences, ChinaYu HU received her B.S., M.S. and Ph. D. degrees all in electrical engineering from University of Elec-tronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 1997, 1999, and 2003, respectively. Currently, she is aprofessor at the State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT),Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests generally include architectural-level and circuit-levelreliable design and fault diagnosis techniques. Dr. Hu has published over 70 refereed/peer-reviewed re-search papers and led over 10 research projects supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of thePeople’s Republic of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Beijing Municipal Sci-ence & Technology Commission, and industries. She has served on the Technical Program Committee of anumber of international conferences, including IPDPS, PACT, ASPDAC, ATS, WRTLT and FPT. Dr. Hu re-ceived a number of awards including the Zhu Liyuehua Outstanding Teacher Award from Chinese Academyof Sciences in 2013, the Lu Jia-Xi Young Talent Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, andWangxuan Award for Innovation from China Computer Federation in 2008.

Finance Co-ChairsYun LiangPeking University, ChinaDr. Yun Liang is an assistant professor in Center for Energy-efficient Computing and Applications (CECA)at Peking University. He received his B.S. degree from Tongji University, Shanghai in 2004. He receivedhis Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 2010. He was a researchscientist in ADSC, UIUC before he joined PKU in 2012. His research interests include compiler, computer

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architecture, and embedded system. He has published 30+ journals and refereed conference papers in theseareas. Dr Liang has served as a program committee member and track chair for several conferences in theseareas, including DATE, ASP-DAC, and CASES. His research wins best paper award at FCCM’12 and bestaward nominations at DAC’12, CODES+ISSS’08, FPT’11.Yin-he HanChinese academy of sciences, ChinaYinhe Han is Associate Professor in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Prof. Han received his Ph. D degree from CAS in 2006. He is interested on VLSI design, novel archi-tecture specially on on-chip network and fault-tolerant computing. He has published more than 40 paperson this area, including several top conference papers, include HPCA12, ISCA11, ISCA10, DAC1113, etc..Prof. Hans honors include National (China) Outstanding Dissertation Award Candidates (2008), Outstand-ing Dissertation Award of China Computer Federation, State Technological Invention Award 2012, BestPaper Award of the 2003 Asian Test Symposium. He served as TPC member in many important chip designand architecture conferences (HPCA, PACT, etc.) He served as the Financial Chair of HPCA 2013, and helpwith the local industry liaison for ISLPED 2013.

Publicity Co-ChairsFan YangFudan University, ChinaDr. Fan Yang is an Associate Prof. in Microelectronics Department, Fudan University. His research inter-ests focuses on circuit simulation and modeling. He received the first-class Award of Natural Science fromShanghai Government in 2012. He also received the Best Paper Award nomination from IEEE/ACM DACin 2014. He serves as the TPC member in ICCD and ASPDAC from 2012 to 2013.Deming Chen,UIUC, USADr. Deming Chen obtained his BS in computer science from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1995,and his MS and PhD in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and 2005respectively. He worked as a software engineer between 1995-1999 and 2001-2002. He has been an as-sociate professor in the ECE department of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since 2011. He is aresearch associate professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor inthe CS department. He has published more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers in the areas ofFPGA (synthesis, computing, architecture), EDA (system-level/high-level/logic synthesis), GPU (compila-tion, computing), nanotechnology (device modeling, nano-circuits, nano-architectures), and heterogeneouscomputing (application mapping for systems with multicore/FPGA/GPU). In the recent years, he is alsoactively involved with other research directions, such as computational genomics, hardware security, andcomputation in smart grid. He has served as PI/Co-PI on 18 research grants administered by US Federalagencies as well as the industry with a total amount of funding of $3.4M to support his research so far. Inaddition, he has been a seconded faculty member for the Illinois ADSC center in Singapore since March2010, supervising a research group there with a total amount of funding of $2.7M dedicated to his groupin ADSC. He has received Five Best Paper Awards (ASPDAC’09, SASP’09, FCCM’11, SAAHPC’11, andCODES+ISSS’13) and numerous other awards.Koji Inoue,Kyushu University, JapanHe is currently an Associate Prof. in Department of Informatics, Kyushu University. His research mainlyfocuses on 3D IC, reconfigurable computing, high-performance/low-power micro-architecture, dependablecomputing (security and reliability), and performance prediction/simulation/analysis. He has published over100 papers.

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Publication ChairYu-chun MaTsinghua University, ChinaDr. Yuchun Ma is an Associate Prof. in CS Dept, Tsinghua University. Her research mainly focuses onphysical design automation algorithm for ASIC and FPGA designs, optimization methodologies for 3D ICsand high level synthesis algorithms. Prof.Ma has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and con-ferences. Several papers got the best paper awards or nominations including: Best Paper Award in ISVLSI2012, Best Poster Award in ASCICON 2007/2001, and Best Paper Nomination in ASPDAC 2010. Dueto her excellent teaching ability, she got the First Prize at Beijing Teaching skills competition in 2013.Sheserves as the TPC chair for ICFPT 2014, and serves as the ASPDAC TPC member since 2010. She is thesteering committee member of ASPDAC and Finance Chair of ICFPT 2010, and serves as TPC member inmany important conferences.

Registration ChairZuo-chang YeTsinghua University, ChinaDr. Zuochang Ye is an Associate Prof. in Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University. Dr. Ye mainlyfocuses on the research related to modeling, analysis and simulation for VLSI circuits, and application ofstatistical analysis. He has published over 40 papers. Dr. Ye is IEEE Senior Member since 2013. He servesas the reviewer for IEEE TCAD, TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TMTT, ACM TODAES, and TPC Member of DAC2014, ICCAD10 13, ASP-DAC10 11, DATE10, PATMOS09 12.

Industry Liaison ChairWen-ting HouMediatek, ChinaDr. Wenting Hou got her bachelor degree from Xian Jiaotong University at 1998, Phd. degree from Ts-inghua University at 2003. She worked inside EDA companies around 7 years, such as Cadence, Synopsysas senior R&D engineer. Now she is working at Mediatek as Design Automation team manager. Her inter-ested research areas include physical design automation, transistor simulation technology and automationtool in RTL level. She holds one US patent and has published more than 10 papers. Among these papers,there are 4 papers at Design Automation Conference, and one paper got best paper candidate at DAC 2009.She was technical program committee member at ISQED 2009.

Design Contest ChairWenjian YuTsinghua University, ChinaDr. Wenjian Yu is an Associate Professor with Dept. Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua Uni-versity. Dr. Yu’s research mainly focuses on physical modeling and simulation of integrated circuits, anda broad range of numerical algorithms, stochastic algorithms and their parallelization. Dr. Yu has au-thored/coauthored two books and over 130 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He was the re-cipient of the distinguished Ph.D. Award from Tsinghua University in 2003, and 3 Best Paper Nominationin ASPDAC/ISQED. Dr. Yu has been an IEEE senior member since 2010. Dr. Yu serves as a Memberof Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal and Journal of Computer Aided Design and ComputerGraphics since 2010. He also serves as a TPC member of international conferences including ASPDAC,ICCAD, SLIP, ICFPT, CSTIC etc.

Exhibition ChairYong-pan Liu

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Tsinghua University, ChinaDr. Yongpan Liu is an associate professor in Dept. of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University. His mainresearch interests include low power VLSI design, emerging device based circuits and systems and designautomation. His research is supported by NSFC, 863, 973 Program and Industry Companies such as Intel,Rohm, IBM and so on. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and led over 6SoC design projects for sensor applications and has received the ISLPED2012/2013 Design Contest Awardand several Best Paper Candidates. He is an IEEE(IEICE) member and has been invited to serve on severalconference technical program committees (DAC, ASP-DAC, ISLPED, ICCD, A-SSCC, etc). He serves asthe secretary of ACM SIGDA North China Chapter and Steering Committee member of Asia Smart SensorWorkshop.

Web ChairGuo-jie LuoPeking University, ChinaGuojie Luo is an assistant professor in the Center for Energy-Efficient Computing and Applications (CECA),School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Peking University since 2011. His cur-rent research interests include physical design automation, scalable algorithms, and advanced design tech-nologies for 3D ICs. He published 20+ papers, including 3 journal papers. He served as a TPC member ofASP-DAC 2013, 2014, NanoArch 2013, 2014, ISPD 2014, and ICCAD 2014; he also served as a reviewerfor the following publications: IEEE TCAD, IEEE TVLSI, ACM TRETS, ACM JETC. He designed andimplemented 3D-Craft, a state-of-the-art 3D physical design flow, and his PhD thesis ”Placement and De-sign Planning for 3D Integrated Circuits” won the 2013 ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Awardin Electronic Design Automation.

Designers Forum ChairQiang XuChinese University in HK, ChinaQiang Xu is an Associate Professor in CSE Dept., The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Xu’s researchinterests include VLSI testing, fault-tolerant computing, and trusted computing. He has authored and coau-thored more than 100 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. He received Best Paper Awardat DATE’04 and he has four other papers nominated for Best Paper Award at ICCAD/DATE/ASPDAC. Heserves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Design & Test Magazine. He is the TPC co-chair for IEEE AsianTest Symposium 2014, and he has served as TPC members for a number of conferences in VLSI design andtesting (DAC, ICCAD, ITC, DATE, ASPDAC, ICFPT, etc.).

Student Forum ChairJiang XuHKUST, ChinaJiang Xu received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. From 2001 to 2002, he worked at Bell Labs,NJ, as a Research Associate and discovered the First Generation Dilemma in platform-based SoC designmethodologies. He was a Research Associate at NEC Laboratories America, NJ, from 2003 to 2005 andworking on Network-on-Chip designs and implementations. He joined a startup company, Sandbridge Tech-nologies, NY, from 2005 to 2007 and worked on the development and implementation of two generationsof NoC-based ultra-low power Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip for mobile platforms. Dr. Xu establishedMobile Computing System Lab and Xilinx-HKUST Joint Lab at the Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology. He currently serves as the Area Editor of NoC, SoC, and GPU for ACM Transactions on Em-bedded Computing Systems and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration(VLSI) Systems. He served on the steering committees, organizing committees, and technical program com-

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mittees of many international conferences, including ICCAD, CASES, ICCD, EMSOFT, CODES+ISSS,NOCS, RTCSA, ASP-DAC, etc. Dr. Xu is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE DistinguishedLecturer. He authored and coauthored more than 80 book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals andinternational conferences. He coauthored a book titled Algorithms, Architecture and System-on-Chip De-sign for Wireless Applications (Cambridge University Press). His research areas include network-on-chip,multiprocessor system-on-chip, optical interconnect, embedded system, computer architecture, low-powerVLSI design, and HW/SW codesign.

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