EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award

Recipients in 2024 (Thesis in 2023 or 2022)

List of Committee Members

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in systems design methods and tools, simulation and validation, embedded software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical, secure and learning systems	Dr. Stefan Nikolic	Automating the Design of Programmable Interconnect for Reconfigurable Architectures	Paolo Ienne (EPFL, CH)	EPFL	Switzerland
New directions in system-on-chip platforms co-design, novel architectures for future computing in design flows, and power management	** NO AWARD GIVEN **
New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies (such as quantum-, neuromorphic- or biological computing	Dr. Nan Wu	Machine Learning Empowered Agile Hardware Design and Design Automation	Yuan Xie (University of California at Santa Babara, US)	University of California at Santa Babara	USA
New directions in safety, reliability, security-aware hardware design, validation and test	Dr. Zhixin Pan	Defending systems against malicious attacks using machine learning	Prabhat Mishra (University of Florida, US)	University of Florida, US	USA

Recipients in 2023 (Thesis in 2022 or 2021)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in systems design methods and tools, simulation and validation, embedded software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical, secure and learning systems	Dr. Xiaochen Peng	Benchmark Framework for 2-D/3-D Integrated Compute-in-Memory based Machine Learning Accelerator	Prof. Shimeng Yu	Georgia Tech	USA
New directions in system-on-chip platforms co-design, novel architectures for future computing in design flows, and power management	Dr. Martin Rapp	Machine Learning for Resource-Constrained Computing Systems	Prof. Joerg Henkel	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Germany
New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies (such as quantum-, neuromorphic- or biological computing).	Dr. Zhiyao Xie	Intelligent Circuit Design and Implementation with Machine Learning	Prof. Yiran Chen and Prof. Hai Li	Duke University	USA
New directions in safety, reliability, security-aware hardware design, validation and test	Dr. Hasan Hassan	Improving DRAM Performance, Reliability, and Security by Rigorously Understanding Intrinsic DRAM operations	Prof. Onur Mutlu	ETHZ	Switzerland

Recipients in 2022 (Thesis in 2021 or 2020)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical and secure systems.	Dr. Lana Josipovic	High-level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits	Prof. Paolo Ienne	EPFL	Switzerland
New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies.	Dr. Wei Ye	Design for Manufacturability and Reliability through Learning and Optimization	Prof. David Z. Pan	University of Texas at Austin	USA
New directions in safety, reliability and security-aware hardware design, validation and test for systems and circuits	Dr. Sayandeep Saha	Revisiting Fault Analysis of Block Ciphers: Attacks, Defenses, and Vulnerability Assessment Frameworks	Prof. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Prof. Pallab Dasgupta	Indian Institute of Technology	India

Recipients in 2021 (Thesis in 2020 or 2019)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical and secure systems	Dr. Linghao Song	Accelerator Architectures for Deep learning and Graph Processing	Prof. Yiran Chen and Prof. Hai Li	Duke University	USA
New directions in system-on-chip platforms co-design, novel emerging architectures and system- level management	Dr. Eleonora Testa	Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis in Advanced Technologies	Prof. Giovanni de Micheli and Dr. Mathias Soeken	EPFL	Switzerland
New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies	Dr. Dennis Gnad	Remote Attacks on FPGA Hardware	Prof. Mehdi Tahoori	KIT	Germany
New directions in safety, reliability and security-aware hardware design, validation and test for systems and circuits	Dr. Jeremie Kim	Improving DRAM Performance, Security and Reliability by Understanding and Exploiting DRAM Timing Parameter Margins	Prof. Onur Mutlu	Carnegie Mellon University	USA

Recipients in 2020 (Thesis in 2019 or 2018)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
–	Dr. Eric Schneider	Multi-Level Simulation of Nano-Electronic Digital Circuits on GPUs	Prof. H-J Wunderlich	University of Stuttgart	Germany
–	Dr. Fabio Passos	A Multilevel Approach to the Systematic Design of Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits	Dr. Francisco V. Fernandez and Dr. Elisenda Roca	University of Sevilla	Spain
–	Dr. Ahmedullah Aziz	Device-Circuit Co-design Employing Phase Transition Materials for Low Power Electronics	Prof. Sumeet Gupta	Purdue University	USA
–	Dr. Innocent Agbo	Reliability Modeling and Mitigation for Embedded Memories	Prof. S. Hamdioui	University of Delft	The Netherlands
Quantum Computing Systems	Dr. Alwin Zulehner	Design Automation for Quantum Computing	Prof. R. Wille	University of Linz	Austria

Recipients in 2019 (Thesis in 2018 or 2017)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical and secure systems	Dr. Kaisheng Ma	Self-Powered Internet-of-Things Nonvolatile Processor and System Exploration and Optimization	Prof. V. Narayanan & Prof. John Sampson @ Penn State University and Prof. Y. Xie @ UCSB	Pennsylvania State University	USA
New directions in system-on-chip platforms co-design, novel emerging architectures and system- level management	Dr. Anastasios Psarras	High Performance Networks-on-Chip	Prof. G. Dimitrakopoulos	University of Thrace	Greece
New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies	Dr. Hassan Najafi	New Views for Stochastic Computing: From Time-Encoding to Deterministic Processing	Prof. D. Lilja	University of Minnesota	USA
New directions in safety, reliability and security-aware hardware design, validation and test for systems and circuits	Dr. Meng Li	A Synergistic Framework for Hardware IP Privacy and Integrity Protection	Prof. D. Z. Pan	University of Texas at Austin	USA

Recipients in 2018 (Thesis in 2017 or 2016)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical and secure systems	Dr. Alessandro Biondi	Analysis and Design Optimization of Real-Time Engine Control Software	Prof. G. Buttazzo & Prof. M. Di Natale	Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa	Italy
New directions in system-on-chip platforms co-design, novel emerging architectures and system- level management	Dr.-Ing. Matthias Jung	System-Level Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of DRAM Memories and Controller Architectures	Prof. B. Jacob & Prof. N. Wehn	Technical University of Kaiserslautern	Germany
New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies	Dr. Rajendra Bishnoi	Reliable Low-Power and High Performance Spintronic Memories	Prof. M. Tahoori and Dr. G. Prenat	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
New directions in safety, reliability and security-aware hardware design, validation and test for systems and circuits	Dr.-Ing. Tobias Schneider	Hardware-Based Countermeasures Against Physical Attacks	Prof. T. Guneysu & Prof. A. Moradi	Ruhr-University at Bochum	Germany

Recipients in 2017 (Thesis in 2016 or 2015)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical and secure systems	Dr. Marco Zimmerling	End-to-end Predictability and Efficiency in Low-power Wireless Networks	Prof. Lothar Thiele	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ)	Switzerland
New directions in system-on-chip platforms co-design, novel architectures and system-level management	Dr. Bingjun Xiao	Communication Optimization for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing	Prof. Jason Cong	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies	Dr. Kai Hu	Optimization, Testing and Design-for-Testability of Flow-Based Microfluidic Biochips	Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty	Duke University	USA
New directions in robust circuit design, reliability-aware design and system test	Dr. Veit Benedikt Kleeberger	Resilient Cross-Layer Design of Digital Integrated Circuits	Prof. Ulf Schlichtmann	Technical University of Munich	Germany

Recipients in 2016 (Thesis in 2015 or 2014)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Abbas Rahimi	From Variability-Tolerance to Approximate Computing in Parallel Computing Architectures	Prof. Rajesh K. Gupta and Prof. Luca Benini	University of California (in San Diego)	USA
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Luca Gaetano Amaru	New Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis and Verification	Prof. Giovanni De Micheli and Prof. Andreas P. Burg	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne – EPFL	Switzerland
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Xiaoming Chen	Algorithm Parallelization and Architecture Optimization for Irregular Problems	Prof. Huazhong Yang	Tsinghua University	China
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. David Hai Lin	QED Post-Silicon Validation and Debug	Prof. Subhasish Mitra	Stanford University	USA

Recipients in 2015 (Thesis in 2014 or 2013)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Nan Guan	New Techniques for Building Timing-Predictable Embedded Systems	Prof. Wang Yi	Uppsala University	Sweden
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Zhenyu Sun	High-Performance and Low-Power Magnetic Material Memory Based Cache Design	Prof. Hai Li	University of Pittsburgh	USA
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Bei Yu	Design for Manufacturing with Advanced Lithography	Prof. David Z. Pan	University of Texas at Austin	USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Brandon Robert Noia	Design-for-Test and Test Optimization Techniques for TSV-based 3D Stacked ICs	Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty	Duke University	USA

Recipients in 2014 (Thesis in 2013 or 2012)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Weiwei Chen	Out-of-Order Parallel Simulation for Electronic System-Level Design	Prof. Rainer Domer	University of California, Irvine	USA
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Younghyun Kim	Design and Runtime Optimizations of Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems	Prof. N. Chang	Seoul National University	Korea
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Hongbo Zhang	Design-Technology Co-Optimization in Next Generation Lithography	Prof. M. D. F. Wong	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Yanjing Li	Online Self-Test, Diagnostics, and Self-Repair for Robust System Design	Prof. S. Mitra	Stanford University	USA

Recipients in 2013 (Thesis in 2012 or 2011)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Bjorn B. Brandenburg	Scheduling and Locking in Multiprocessor Real-Time Operating Systems	Prof. James H. Anderson	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Guangyu Sun	Exploring Memory Hierarchy Design with Emerging Memory Technologies	Prof. Yuan Xie	Penn State University	USA
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Rani S. Ghaida	Design Enablement and Design-Centric Assessment of Future Semiconductor Technologies	Prof. Puneet Gupta	UCLA, Los Angeles	USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Xiao Liu	Trace-Based Post-Silicon Validation for VLSI Circuits	Prof. Qiang Xu	The Chinese University of Hongkong	Hongkong

Recipients in 2012 (Thesis in 2011 or 2010)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Viacheslav Izosimov	Scheduling and Optimization of Fault-Tolerant Distri-buted Embedded Systems	Prof. Zebo Peng	Linkping University	Sweden
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Paul Somnath	Computing with Memory for Energy-Efficient Robust Systems	Prof. Swarup Bhunia	Case Western Reserve University, OH	USA
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Kwangok Jeong	Variability Assessment and Mitigation in Advanced VLSI Manufacturing Through Design-Manufacturing Co-Optimization	Prof. Andrew B. Kahng	University of California, San Diego	USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Stephan Eggersgl	Robust Algorithms for High Quality Test Pattern Generation Using Boolean Satisfiability	Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler	University of Bremen	Germany

Recipients in 2011 (Thesis in 2010 or 2009)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Lars Bauer	RISSP: a run-time adaptive reconfigurable embedded processor	Prof. Jörg Henkel	University of Karlsruhe	Germany
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Ajay Kumar Verma	Pre-synthesis optimization of arithmetic circuits	Prof. Paolo Ienne	EPFL	Switzerland
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Dirk Koch (ex aequo) Dr. David Papa	Architectures, methods and tools for distributed run-time reconfigurable FPGA-based systems Broadening the scope of multi-objective optimizations in physical synthesis of integrated circuits	Prof. Jürgen Teich Prof. Igor Markov	University of Erlangen-Nürnberg University of Michigan	*Germany *USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Ho Fai Ko	New algorithms and architectures for post-silicon validation	Prof. Nicola Nicolici	McMaster University	USA

Recipients in 2010 (Thesis in 2009 or 2008)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Arne Hamann	Iterative design space exploration and robustness optimization for embedded systems	Prof. Rolf Ernst and Lothar Thiele	Technische Universität Braunschweig	Germany
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Ben Jamaa Mohamed Haykel	Fabrication and design of nanoscale regular circuits	Prof. Giovanni de Micheli and Yusuf Leblebici	EPFL	Switzerland
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Trent McConaghy	Variation-aware structural synthesis and knowledge extraction of analog circuits	Prof. Georges Gielen	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Smita Krishnaswamy	Design, analysis and test of logic circuits under uncertainty	Prof. John Hayes and Igor Markov	University of Michigan	USA

Recipients in 2009 (Thesis in 2008 or 2007)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Umit Y. Ogras	Modeling, analysis and optimization of network-on-chip communication architectures	Prof. Radu Marculescu	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Chrysostomos Nicopoulos	Network-on-Chip Architectures: A Holistic Design Exploration	Prof. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan and Prof. Kenneth Jenkins	The Pennsylvania State University	USA
New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS	Dr. Amith Singhee	Novel Algorithms for Fast Statistical Analysis of Scaled Circuits	Prof. Rob A. Rutenbar	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Dongwoo Hong	Efficient Test Methodologies for High-Speed Serial Links	Prof. Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng	University of California Santa Barbara	USA

Award Chair:Bernard CourtoisCMP46 avenue Felix VialletF-38031 Grenoble CedexFranceEmail:  ">

Recipients in 2008 (Thesis in 2007 or 2006)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design and embedded software	Dr. Srinivasan Murali	Methodologies for Reliable and Efficient Design of Networks on Chips	Prof. Giovanni De Micheli	Stanford University	USA
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Kai-Hui Chang	Functional Design Error Diagnosis Correction and Layout Repair of Digital Circuits	Prof. Igor Markov and Prof. Valeria Bertacco	University of Michigan	USA
New directions in physical design,  design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits	Dr. Puneet Gupta	On Compensation of Systematic Manufacturing Variations in Physical Design	Andrew B. Kahng	University of California	USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Luca Sterpone	Electronics system design techniques for safety critical applications	Matteo Sonza Reorda	Politecnico di Torino	Italy

Award Chair:Bernard CourtoisCMP46 avenue Felix VialletF-38031 Grenoble CedexFranceEmail:  ">

Recipients in 2005 (Thesis in 2006 or 2005)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design	Dr. Roman Lev Lysecky	Warp Processing and Just-in-Time Field-Programmable Gate Array Compilation	Prof. Frank Vahid	Univ. of California at Riverside	USA
New directions in logic and system design	Dr. Frederic Worm	Robust Checkers for Self-Calibrating Designs	Prof. Paolo Ienne and Prof. Patrick Thiran	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Switzerland
New directions in physical design,  design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits	Dr. Fei Su	Synthesis, Testing, and Reconfiguration Techniques for Digital Microfluidic Biochips	Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty	Duke University	USA
New directions in circuit and system test	Dr. Paolo Bernardi	Test Techniques for System-on-Chip	Prof. Matteo Sonza Reorda	Politecnico di Torino	Italy

Award Chair:Bernard CourtoisCMP46 avenue Felix VialletF-38031 Grenoble CedexFranceEmail:  ">

Recipients in 2004 (Thesis in 2005 or 2004)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design	Kris J. V. Tiri	Design for Side-Channel Attack Resistant Security ICs	Professor Ingrid Verbauwhede	Univ. of California at Los Angeles	USA
New directions in logic and system design	Miroslav N. Velev	Formal Verification of Pipelined Microprocessors by Correspondence Checking	Professor Randal E. Bryant	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
New directions in physical design,  design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits	No award given
New directions in circuit and system test	Marcelo Negreiros	Low Cost BIST Techniques for Linear and Non-Linear Analog Circuits	Professor Luigi Carro	Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil

Award Chair:Bernard CourtoisCMP46 avenue Felix VialletF-38031 Grenoble CedexFranceEmail:  ">

Recipients in 2005 (Thesis in 2004 or 2003)

Area	Recipient	Thesis title	Advisor	University	Country
New directions in embedded system design automation	Prabhat Kumar Mishra	Specification-driven Validation of Programmable Embedded Systems	Professor Nikil Dutt, Chair	University of California at Irvine	USA
New directions in physical design automation and CAD for analog circuits	Mustafa Badaroglu	Gate-level characterization and reduction of substrate noise in digital integrated circuits	Prof. dr. ir. Hugo De Man, Prof. dr. ir. Georges Gielen	Katholieke Univ. Leuven	Belgium
New directions in circuit and system test	Kaijie Wu	On Dependable and Secure Hardware Design	Ramesh Karri	Polytechnic  Univ. Brooklyn, NY	USA
Innovative embedded system design	François-Xavier Standaert	Secure and Efficient Use of Reconfigurable Hardware Devices in Symmetric Cryptography	Pr. Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Pr. Jean-Didier Legat	Univ. Catholique de Louvain	Belgium

Award Chair: Bernard Courtois

Recipients in 2004 (Thesis in 2003 or 2002)

Area	Recipient	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 Circuit and System Test	Dr. Said Hamdioui	Testing Multi-Port Memories : Theory and Practice	Prof. dr. ir. A.J. van de Goor	Delft University of Technology	The Netherlands
New Directions in System Test	Dr. 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