David Z. Pan received his Ph.D. degree (with honor) in Computer Science from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
in 2000. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Research Staff Member with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
He has been serving as an Associate Editor for four premier IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (since 2006), IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (since 2007), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (since 2007), and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (2006-2007). He is also an Associate Editor for the IEEE CAS Society Newsletter (since 2007) and a Guest Editor of TCAD Special Section on “International Symposium on Physical Design” in 2007 and 2008. He is a member in the Design Technology Working Group of International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS). He is an elected officer in the IEEE CANDE Committee (Workshop Chair in 2007, Secretary in 2008, and Chair in 2009) and a member of the ACM/SIGDA Technical Committee on Physical Design since 2006 (Chair since 2009). He is the General Chair of ISPD 2008 and Steering Committee Chair of ISPD 2009. He has served in the Technical Program Committees of major VLSI/CAD conferences, including ASPDAC (Topic Chair), DAC, DATE, ICCAD, ISPD (Program Chair), ISQED (Topic Chair), ISCAS (CAD Track Chair), SLIP (Publication Chair), among many others. He is a Technical Advisory Board member of Pyxis Technology, Inc.
He has received a number of awards for his research contributions and professional services, including the ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award (2005), NSF CAREER Award (2007), UCLA Engineering Distinguished Young Alumnus Award (2009), SRC Inventor Recognition Award three times (2000 and 2008), IBM Faculty Award three times (2004–2006), IBM Research Bravo Award (2003), SRC Techcon Best Paper in Session Award twice (1998 and 2007), ICICDT Best Student Paper Award (2009), 5 Best Paper Award Nominations at DAC/ICCAD/ASPDAC, Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Research Award (2000), eASIC Placement Contest Grand Prize (2009), ISPD Routing Contest Awards (2007), and ACM Recognition of Service Award (2007 and 2008). He is a Cadence Distinguished Speaker in 2007 and an IEEE CAS Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2008–2009.
Dr. Pan is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM/SIGDA, SPIE, and ASEE.