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. 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), SRC Inventor Recognition Award (2000 and 2008), IBM Faculty Award (2004–2006), IBM Research Bravo Award (2003), SRC Techcon Best Paper in Session Award (1998 and 2007), Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Research Award (2000), ISPD Routing Contest Awards (2007), eASIC Placement Contest Grand Prize (2009), several Best Paper Award Nominations at DAC/ICCAD/ASPDAC, 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.