ECE students Mehmet Isgenc and Joe Sweeney with post-docs Mayler Martins and Sam Pagliarini won first place at the International Conference in Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) CAD contest. The team, under the guidance of ECE professor Larry Pileggi, took first place in Problem C: Pattern Classification for Integrated Circuit Design Space Analysis, with a $5000 prize. […]
All student presentations at the SONIC YR3 Annual Review Meeting (held on September 30 and October 1, 2015) were eligible for one of the following research awards – The Shannon Award for Excellence in Systems Research, The von Neumann Award for Excellence in Architectures Research, and The Bardeen Award for Excellence in Circuits and Devices Research. […]
Larry Pileggi has been chosen to receive the 2015 SIA University Research Award. This award was established in 1995 by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) to recognize lifetime research contributions to the U.S. semiconductor industry by university faculty. The SIA board members are CEOs and executive VPs of major semiconductor companies. The award is will […]
Tom Jackson and Vehbi Calayir received the John Bardeen Award at the StarNET SONIC review for their collaborative project with researchers at Stanford: “A Cellular Neural Network using CMOS Neurons and RRAM/PCM Synapses.” The group of Thomas Jackson, Vehbi Calayir, S. Burc Eryilmaz, Joon Sohn, Zizhen Jiang, Clare Chen, Ethan Ahn, under the direction of Professors H.-S. […]
Qiuling (Jolin) Zhu, Tobias Graf, H. Ekin Sumbul, Larry Pileggi and Franz Franchetti received a best paper award at the Seventeenth Annual High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for their paper titled: A Logic-in-Memory Accelerated 3D-DRAM for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication. Jolin Zhu presented the paper and accepted the award.
Larry Pileggi received the B.R. Teare Teaching Award that is made to a faculty member within the Carnegie Institute of Technology in recognition of excellence in engineering education. Fred Higgs of Mechanical Engineering also received the award for this year. More details can be found at: http://www.cit.cmu.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_awards/teare.html.
