WD2AT

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: 3^rd Floor Lobby
	Technical Sessions: Conference Room A, 3^rd 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, 2^nd 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: 3^rd 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: 1^st Floor Lobby
	Technical Sessions: Ballroom A, 1^st 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, 1^st Floor
12:15-1:30pm	Lunch: Gold Room, 2^nd 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.