EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award 2003

In recognition of the importance of university research to the advancement of design automation and test, and to encourage young researchers to work in the field, EDAA has established an award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in 4 categories: 

1. new directions in embedded system design automation 
2. new directions in physical design automation
3. new directions in system test 
4. innovative embedded system design.

The winners of the 2003 award are:

Area	Winner	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
Innvovative embedded system design	Alberto García-Ortiz	Stochastic Data Models for Power Estimation at High-Levels of Abstraction	Manfred Glesner	TU Darmstadt	Germany
New directions in embedded system design automation	Samarjit Chakraborty	System-Level Timing Analysis and Scheduling for Embedded Packet Processors	Lothar Thiele	Swiss Federal Institut of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
New Directions in Physical Design Automation (split award)	Dimitrios Velenis	Delay Uncertainty in High Performance Clock Distribution Networks	Eby G. Friedman	University of Rochester, New York	USA
New Directions in Physical Design Automation (split award)	Ruiqi Tian	Layout Optimization with Dummy Features for Chemical-Mechanical Polishing Manufa	Martin D. F. Wong	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	USA
New Directions in System Test	Vikram Iyengar	Test Planning and Plug-and-Play Test Automation for System-on-Chip	Krishnendu Chakrabarty	Duke University, NC	USA

Award Chair:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Ernst
Institut fuer Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
Hans-Sommer-Str. 66
D-38106 Braunschweig
Germany

Email: r.ernst@tu-bs.de