First CRA-W/CDC Workshop on Diversity in Design Automation and Test:

Putting D(iversity) in Design Automation and Test

(WD2AT)

Pittsburgh, PA

May 23-24, 2011

 

ORGANIZERS:

Diana Marculescu1, Shawn Blanton1, Jun Yang2, Natasa Miskov-Zivanov2, Alex K. Jones2

1Carnegie Mellon University and 2University of Pittsburgh

Contact: {dianam, blanton}@ece.cmu.edu, {juy9, nam66, akjones}@pitt.edu

 



DESCRIPTION:

The focus of this workshop is on design automation and test (DA&T), an area recognized as a clear field within computing with the goal of developing software tools for designing and testing electronic systems. The field is home to more than 20 conferences, symposia, and workshops targeting DA&T of electronic systems, from system-level, to register transfer-, gate- or circuit-level tools. While the classic focus of DA&T has been on electronic/silicon systems, more recently non-silicon computing substrates or non-computing applications have received a lot of attention. For example, bio-DA (either from a modeling/analysis or bio-synthesis perspective) and DA for large-scale systems have started to be viewed as some of the emerging directions in DA&T.

 

This workshop is intended to provide senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and early post-doctoral researchers from underrepresented groups (women and minority) an overview of the field, research directions, and career paths in design automation and test. Funding is available to help cover travel costs and subsistence (hotel, food) during the workshop for attendees.

 

FINAL AGENDA (Event Pictures)

 

Monday, May 23

8:15-8:55am

Breakfast: 3rd Floor Lobby

 

Technical Sessions: Conference Room A, 3rd Floor

8:55-9am

Welcome from the organizers

9-9:15am

Guest speaker: Ed Schlesinger, Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

9:15-10:45am

Design Automation and Test: Perspectives of the Past 40 Years and Present (invited talks)

Confirmed invited speakers: Randy Bryant (CMU), Bill Joyner (SRC), Steven Levitan (U. of Pittsburgh)

10:45-11am

Break : 3rd Floor Lobby

11am-12:15pm

Starting Out in DA&T Research (panel)

Confirmed invited panelists: Anne Meixner (Intel Corp.), Fred Higgs (CMU), Farinaz Koushnafar (Rice U.), Russ Joseph (Northwestern U.)

12 :15-1:30pm

Lunch : Gold Room, 2nd Floor

1:30-2:45pm

Career Paths in Design Automation and Test (panel)

Confirmed invited panelists: Linda Milor (Georgia Tech), Renu Mehra (Synopsys), Ian Harris (UC Irvine), Jayashree Saxena (Texas Instruments)

2:45-3:45pm

Break and Posters I: 3rd  Floor Lobby

3:45-5pm

Advancing Your Career (panel)

Confirmed invited panelists: Margaret Martonosi (Princeton U.), Anne Gattiker (IBM Corp.), William Robinson (Vanderbilt U.), Shawn Blanton (CMU)

6:30pm

Dinner and social event: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Foster Overlook

Walking directions from Pitt’s University Club or from Holiday Inn

Guest speaker: Sylvanus N. Wosu, Associate Dean for Diversity and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday, May 24

8:30-9:15am

Breakfast: 1st Floor Lobby

 

Technical Sessions: Ballroom A, 1st Floor

9:15-11:15am

Hot Topics in Design Automation and Test (invited talks)

Confirmed invited speakers: Iris Bahar (Brown U.), Chris Myers (U. of Utah), Peter Feldmann (IBM Corp.), Radu Marculescu (CMU)

11 :15am-12 :15pm

Break and Posters II: Ballroom A, 1st Floor

12:15-1:30pm

Lunch: Gold Room, 2nd Floor

1:30pm

End of workshop

 

 

 

Poster Session Schedule

 

Monday :

 

 

Nga

Dang

University of California, Irvine

Leslie

Hwang

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Naghmeh

Karimi

Duke University

Manjari

Kulkarni

Portland State University

Daniel

Limbrick

Vanderbilt University

Shilpa

Pendyala

University of South Florida

Tanaya

Sahu

University of California, Los Angeles

Jonatan

Sierra Suarez

Carnegie Mellon University

Jing

Xie

Penn State University

 

 

 

Tuesday :

 

 

Luis

Bathen

University of California, Irvine

Beenish

Chaudry

Indiana University

Haera

Chung

Portland State University

Radu

David

Carnegie Mellon University

Suvarna

Mane

Virginia Institute of Technology

John

Porche

Carnegie Mellon University

Adrian

Trejo

Carnegie Mellon University

Zhaobo

Zhang

Duke University

Jishen

Zhao

Penn State University

 

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES (by type of opening):

      Industry positions

      Graduate school

 

RESUME DATABASE (by career objective):

      Permanent positions

      Internships

      Graduate school

      Postdoc positions

 

VENUE AND LODGING:

The Workshop will take place at University of Pittsburgh’s University Club. Lodging for non-local attendees will be provided for the duration of the workshop at the nearby Holiday Inn University Center. Here are walking direction from the hotel to the meeting place and back.

 

APPLICATION (completed):

The application deadline for interested attendees to the workshop is April 25, 2011. Selected participants will be notified by April 29, 2011.   Applications should be sent via email to Diana Marculescu (dianam@cmu.edu).  Please fill in all fields of this spreadsheet and send via email to the address above along with: (i) A one-page statement on "What do you expect to get from and contribute to this workshop?"  Please make sure you address both parts of the question; and (ii) A one-page description of a research poster, if you would like to present one (in that case, make sure you mark the corresponding field in the spreadsheet).

 

IMPORTANT DATES (completed):

Application deadline: Monday, April 25, 2011 (extended)

Notification of acceptance: Friday, April 29, 2011

 

SPONSORS:

The workshop is part of a series of Discipline-specific Mentoring Workshops organized by Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC). Additional support for this workshop comes from: Carnegie Mellon University (Dept. of ECE, Office of Vice Provost for Education, Offices of Assist. Vice Provosts for Undergraduate and Graduate Education), University of Pittsburgh (Swanson School of Engineering),  ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, Semiconductor Research Corporation/Education Alliance, Synopsys, and Texas Instruments.