9/22/2025: Congrats to my former PhD student Keren Zhu (PhD 2022) for being named
𝐌𝐈𝐓 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰’𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 35 (TR35) 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 2025!
5/10/2025: Our paper "APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance" was recognized as an
Honorable Mention Outstand Paper at MLSys 2025!
7/25/2024: Congratulations to Shupeng Ning (co-supervised with Prof.
Ray Chen) for winning the Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition.
6/25/2024: Congratulations to UTDA alumnus Prof. Bei Yu for winning the prestigious DAC Under-40 Innovators Award.
5/29/2024: UTDA team (Souradip and co-authors) won the Poster Competition 1st Place at the Annual SRC CADT Review.
5/7/2024: Our FCCM 2024 paper "A Data-Driven, Congestion-Aware and Open-Source Timing-Driven FPGA Placer Accelerated by GPUs" won the Best Paper Award! Congratulations to Zhili and Rachel!
4/7/2024: Congratulations to my former PhD student Jiaqi Gu (co-advised by Prof. Ray Chen) for winning the UT Austin-wide Outstanding Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Biological and Life Sciences in 2024. Jiaqi is an Assistant Professor at ASU now.
11/28/2023: Congratulations to Hyunsu Chae for receiving Cadence Diversity in Technology Scholarship for 2023!
11/21/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Mark Haoxing Ren, UTDA alumnus and currently Director of Design Automation Research at Nvidia for his elevation to IEEE Fellow!
2025 Honorable Mention Outstand Paper, The 8th Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys)
2025 Honorable Mention Paper Award, International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA)
2024 Best Paper Award, The 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)
2024 Honor for PhD Student Jiaqi Gu (co-advised by Prof. Ray Chen): UT Austin Graduate School Outstanding Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Engineering, Physical Science, and Biological and Life Sciences (one per year for the entire UT Austin)
2024 Honor for PhD Student Shupeng Ning (co-advised with Prof. Ray Chen): Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition Winner
2023 MLCAD FPGA Macro-Placement Contest First Place (Students: Zhili Xiong, Rachel S. Rajarathnam, Zhixing Jiang, Hanqing Zhu)
2023 Honor for PhD Student Jiaqi Gu (co-advised by Prof. Ray Chen): UT-ECE Margarida Jacome Dissertation Prize
2022 Honor for PhD Students Chenghao Cheng, Jiaqi Gu and Hanqing Zhu: Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition Winner
2022 Honor for PhD Student Wei Ye: EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award
2021 ACM Fellow, for contributions to electronic design automation, including design for manufacturing and physical design
2021 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award
2021 Honor for PhD Student Jiaqi Gu (co-advised by Prof. Ray Chen): First Place, ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals (Graduate Category)
2021 Honor for PhD Student Zhoufeng Ying (co-advised with Prof. Ray Chen): UT-ECE Margarida Jacome Dissertation Prize
2021 Honor for PhD Student Ahmet Budak: ADI Outstanding Student Designer Award
2020 Honor for PhD Student Jiaqi Gu: ACM/SIGDA Student Research Competition Gold Medal
2020 Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering, UT Austin
2020 Best Paper Award,
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)
2020 Prolific Author Award, 25th ACM/IEEE Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
2020 ASP-DAC 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award Candidate
2020 Best Paper Award, 25th ACM/IEEE Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
2019 Best Paper Award, 56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2019 Cadence Academic Collaboration Award "for contributions to design for manufacturing and physical design of integrated circuits and systems, and educating a diverse body of outstanding EDA professionals to industry"
2019 IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Distinguished Lecturer
2018 Best Paper Award, Integration - the VLSI Journal
2018 Honor for PhD Student Xiaoqing Xu: ACM Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation
2017 Honor for PhD Student Meng Li: ACM/SIGDA Student Research Competition Gold Medal
2017 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
2017 ACM ISPD Contest: First Place
2017 SPIE Fellow, for achievements in IC design for manufacturing with advanced lithography
2016 Honor for PhD Student Xiaoqing Xu: ACM/SIGDA Student Research Competition Gold Medal
2016 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) FPGA Placement Contest: First Place
2016 Franco Cerrina Memorial Best Student Paper Award, SPIE Advanced Lithography
2015 Best in Session Award, SRC Techcon
2015 ASP-DAC Frequently Cited Author Award (as one of the top 3 cited authors in the 20 years of ASP-DAC).
2015 ASP-DAC 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award Candidate
2015 Honor for PhD Student Bei Yu: EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award
2014-2020 Engineering Foundation Endowed Professorship #1, UT Austin
2014 RAISE Faculty Excellence Award (Recognizing Asian & Asian American Faculty & Staff Instilling Strength and Excellence), Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff Association (AAAFSA) and Asian Desi Pacific Islander American Collective (APAC), UT Austin.
2014 Best Paper Award, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)
2014 IEEE Fellow, for contributions to design for manufacturability in integrated circuits
2014 Communications of the ACM, Research Highlights
2013 ICCAD CAD Contest, the 2nd Place
2013 William J. McCalla Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
2013 SRC Technical Excellence Award for "Nanometer IC Design for Manufacturability", with the citation "In recognition of your key contributions to technology that have significantly enhanced the productivity of the semiconductor industry"
2013-2014 Earl N. & Margaret Brasfield Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering, UT Austin
2013 DAC Top 10 Author in Fifth Decade
2013 DAC Prolific Author Award (DAC 25 Club: has published 25 or more papers at DAC)
2012 Best Paper Award, 17th IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC)
2011 Overseas and Hong Kong/Macau Scholars Collaborative Research Award (a.k.a. Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar) by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)