ASP-DAC 2018 Conference Proposal

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1 ASP-DAC 2018 Conference Proposal June 30, 2014 We are very enthusiastic to propose the idea of hosting ASP-DAC 2018 in Beijing, from January 22 to January 25, in Beijing International Convention Center (BICC). This proposal is organized as follows: Why: Section 1 will discuss the reasons that we believe ASP-DAC 2018 should be host in Beijing Who: Section 2 will present the proposed organizing committee members and sponsors Where/When: Section 3 will give details on the proposed venue and dates 1 Why: Reasons to Host ASP-DAC in Beijing We believe that there are many strong reasons to bring ASP-DAC to Beijing. As China s capital, Beijing is one of the world s truly imposing cities. With a 3,000 years History and 11 million people, covering 16,808 square kilometers in area, it is the political, cultural and economic center of the People s Republic of China. The Booming of IC Industry in China. China is already the biggest manufacturer of electronics, and also one of the largest markets for them. In 2013, China-based companies made almost 1.5 billion mobile phones and 340 million PCs, and the country integrated circuit imports reached US $231 billion. On June 26, 2014, the government published new policy guidelines 1, laying out a blueprint to develop the domestic integrated circuit industry, propping up its IC design and EDA industry with new policies and financial support intended to turn the country into a semiconductor-making powerhouse by Strong IC Design/EDA Research in China. Research in IC design and design automation has been very active in China. Recent ASPDAC submission statistics have shown that a large percentage of paper submssions/accepted papers are from China or China-born professors/researchers from US or Europe (For example, in ASPDAC2013, 41 out of 311 submissions were from China). The submission statistics in the last 10 years of ASP-DAC s history (see Table 1) show that the ASP-DAC submissions from China is always among the Top 3 Asia countries (together with Taiwan and Japan). In addition, Beijing has many top universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Chinese Academy of Science. First ASP-DAC in Beijing (second time in Mainland China). Even though there are very active R&D activities in China, ever since the beginning of ASP-DAC in 1995, during its almost 20-years history, it has never been held in Beijing, the capital of China. In fact, it was only held once in Mainland China, which was ASPDAC 2005 in Shanghai (see Table 2 for the locations of prior ASP-DAC conferences). If the bidding is successful, it will be the first time that ASP-DAC comes to Beijing, and the second time in mainland China

2 Boosting the Influence of ASP-DAC and The Attendees/Submissions. Since China has a large population of IC designers, it always attracts a large number of local attendees when an International conference is held in China. Due to the booming of China s high-tech industry/economy, it can also attract a large number of foreign attendees from overseas. Such trends have been demonstrated by many other conferences (such as International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2008, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2013), and also demonstrated by ASP-DAC 2005, when ASP-DAC was held in Shanghai, the submission number was the peak in ASP-DAC s history (692 submissions, compared to the average 300 submissions in other years). Even if we didn t count all the submissions from China in that year (214), the rest of 478 submissions from other countries was still the record in ASP-DAC s history. We strongly believe that ASP-DAC 2018 in Beijing will have the same magnetic for researchers/engineers from both China and other countries, and make another new record in ASP-DAC s history, not only in submission/attendee numbers, but also in the program s quality. A Win-win proposal for both ASP-DAC and China s IC academia/industry. If ASP-DAC 2018 is held in Beijing, it will help the influence and recognition of ASP-DAC conference by more of local academia and industry who are working in this field. On the other hand, ASP-DAC attendees, especially graduating postgraduate students, will be able to find potential job and academia opportunities in China, especially in Beijing, the capital of China. China has given the IC industry a very high priority in the next 10 years with billions of investment, we believe more researchers from both industry and academia will pay more attentions to ASPDAC conferences in the future. If we can have this great event in China, it will bring great benefits to both China IC industry and ASPDAC conference. Will Air Pollution Be A Concern? One of the concerns of hosting a conference in Beijing may be the serious air pollution issues in the past several years. Attendees may worry of visiting Beijing during winter time, when air pollution was serious. Fortunately, Chinese government has realized this issue, and has proposed many effective ways to fight the air pollution problem. In fact, Beijing s government has guaranteed a 5% PM2.5 decrease in early We believe that when ASPDAC is held in 2018, which is almost 3.5 years from now, the air pollution problem has been well under controlled by the government. Table 1: submission numbers from different areas in previous ASPDAC. Country USA China Taiwan Japan Germany Korea India Hong Kong Canada France Iran Others Total Who: Organizing Committee and Sponosors This section gives a brief overview of the possible organizing committee members. The CV for selected OC members are attached at the end of the proposal as appendix. Both general co-chairs Prof. Yuan Xie and Prof. Huazhong Yang are well-known world-class leading expert in many areas. Yuan Xie has also been a very active participant in ASP-DAC, with 25 ASPDAC 2

3 Table 2: Previous ASPDAC with place and time. ASPDAC No. Place and Time 21st ASP-DAC Macao (2016) 20th ASP-DAC Makuhari, Japan (Jan 19-22, 2015) 19th ASP-DAC Singapore (Jan.20-23, 2014) 18th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.22-25, 2013) 17th ASP-DAC Sydney, Australia (Jan.30-Feb.2, 2012) 16th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.25-28, 2011) 15th ASP-DAC Taipei, Taiwan (Jan.18-21, 2010) 14th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.19-22, 2009) 13th ASP-DAC Seoul, Korea (Jan.21-24, 2008) 12th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.23-26, 2007) 11th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.24-27, 2006) 10th ASP-DAC Shanghai, China (Jan.18-21, 2005) 9th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.27-30, 2004) 8th ASP-DAC Kitakyushu, Japan (Jan.21-24, 2003) 7th ASP-DAC Bangalore, India (Jan.7-11, 2002) (with VLSI Design 2002) 6th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.30-Feb.2, 2001) 5th ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Jan.25-28, 2000) 4th ASP-DAC Hong Kong (Jan.18-21, 1999) 3rd ASP-DAC Yokohama, Japan (Feb.10-13, 1998) 2nd ASP-DAC Makuhari, Japan (Jan.28-31, 1997) 1st ASP-DAC Makuhari, Japan (Aug.29-Sep.1, 1995) (with VLSI95, CHDL95) papers, and 3 ASPDAC Best Paper Candidates, 1 ASPDAC Best Paper Award, and both general cochairs have worked as TPC chair and vice-chair for ASPDAC The team has worked together in the TPC of ASPDAC for years, and the TPC meeting organization for ASP-DAC 2013 (TPC meeting held in Tsinghua University in Beijing, September 2012). Both Prof. Yu Wang and Prof. Rong Luo are from Beijing, and serve as the secretaries for OC, because they did the similar work as in the TPC meeting of ASP-DAC Prof. Nozomu Togawa who also serves as the OC secretary will help to coordinate with EC. The rest of the OC worked together in ASP-DAC TPC, and they have a successful experience in organizing the International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (ISLPED) 2013 in Beijing, which was highly recognized as one of the best in ISLPED s history. The proposed OC members and their affiliations are listed in Table 3. Sponsorship: The Conference Sponsors will include IEEE/CAS, ACM/SIGDA, Beijing Chapter of IEEE/CAS, IEEE CEDA, and ACM SIGDA. Local Academia Sponsorship will include Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academic of Science, and NSFC. These local institutes have been confirmed to be the sponsor of ASPDAC 2018, but the formal confirmation letters will be available later. Possible industrial financial support will include the following companies: a) EDA companies such as Huada Empyrean Software, Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor graphics; b) System Companies such as Huawei, Microsoft, IBM; c) IC Design companies such as AMD, intel, MediaTek; d) Foundries such as TSMC, Globalfoundry, and SMIC. The organizing committee is composed of the following professors as shown in Table 3 (CVs of the selected committee members are provided in the appendix). 3 Where/When: The Proposed Conference Venue and Date We propose ASP-DAC 2018 to be held in the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC). BICC is located in the Olympic Village, a flourishing area of Beijing, which has a collection of conference centers, businesses, shopping centers and entertainment venues. BICC is right across the street from the center of 3

4 2008 Beijing Olympic Games C Beijing National Stadium, known as the Bird s Nest, and the Aquatic Center, known as the Water Cube. Table 3: The organizing committee. Title Name Affiliation General Co-Chairs Yuan Xie University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Huazhong Yang Yu Wang Secretaries Rong Luo Nozomu Togawa Waseda University, Japan Local Arrangement Chair Guang-yu Sun Peking University, China Tutorials Chair Yu Hu Chinese academy of sciences, China Finance Co-Chairs Yun Liang Peking University, China Yin-he Han Chinese academy of sciences, China Fan Yang Fudan University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Deming Chen UIUC, USA Koji Inoue Kyushu University, Japan Publication Chair Yu-chun Ma Registration Chair Zuo-chang Ye Industry Liaison Chair Wen-ting Hou Mediatek, China Design Contest Chair Wenjian Yu Exhibition Chair Yong-pan Liu Web Chair Guo-jie Luo Peking University, China Designers Forum Chair Qiang Xu Chinese University in HK, China Student Forum Chair Jiang Xu HKUST, China Convention Facilities and Services: BICC has a total of 60,000 square meters and has over 40 conference rooms. It has an Exhibition Hall of 5,000 square meters and 20,000 square meters of office space. This conference hall is equipped with state-of-art auxiliary facilities, simultaneous interpretation system for six languages, projection devices and adjustable lighting system. VIP rooms are also available. Convenient Transportation: BICC is on the North 4th Ring Road of Beijing and along the capital axis line. It is 20 kilometers from the Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) and 9 kilometers from the city center. From the airport, the easiest way to reach BICC is to take a taxi, which will cost about 100CNY. It can be also reached by Airport Express Line from Terminal 3 or Terminal 2 to Sanyuanqiao station, then take subway line 10 to Beitucheng station, and transfer subway line 8 to the Olympic park station. Hotel Capacity and Expected Room Rates: There are abundant hotels close to BICC at reasonably good rates including Intercontinental Hotel, Beijing Continental Grand Hotel, Best Western OL Stadium Hotel, 4

5 Grand SkyLight Catic Hotel, Celebrity International Grand Hotel,etc. A five-start hotel room costs around CNY, while a four-star hotel room costs around CNY. Proposed Social Program. The social program will be held on the Hall for Listening to Orioles in Summer Palace. The ancient Chinese liken the warble of an oriole to beautiful songs and melodies, hence the name. The hall used to be a theater. When the Great Theatre Building was completed, it served as a residence for imperial concubines. Zhenfei, the concubine of Emperor Guangxu, was put house arrest here after the 1898 Reform Movement failed because she was strong supporter of the Reform. Now the hall is one of the most famous restaurants in China, featuring imperial dishes and desserts. It is a must for many foreign visitors to have lunch here when they come to Beijing. More than one hundred й ݳ ẕ heads of state worldwide have dined here and the late Premier Zhou Enlai has held banquets here in honor of state guests. of state guests. ३ ޜݻ ഝ We arrange two excursions during ASPDAC 2013 TPC meeting in Beijing, one is the inside city tour (Forbidden City, and etc), the other is a outside city tour (Great Wall, and etc). We can organize or arrange 㾯ᆹ 5 ቄ

6 more interesting 2-3 day or even longer time tours to Xian, Haerbin, and etc. When: Proposed Conference Date. We propose the dates for ASP-DAC 2018 to be Jan 22-25, It is more than three-week before the Lunar Chinese New Year (Feb. 16). There are no related conferences to be held at the same time. 4 First pass budget 4.1 Incomes: 270K$ Including registration:400 Regs, $600 average per Reg, totally 240K$, and sponsorship:30k$ 50K$ 4.2 Expense: 270K$ Including the items as shown in Table 4: Table 4: Expense budget. Use Budget Surplus 20% X 270K$ TPC/OC meeting 10K$ Printing and AD 10K$ Publicity USB/PAD bags 10K$ IEEE Pub fee 10K$ Finance related Registration web 15K$ (5% of the reg) VISA payment charge 3K$ (3-5% of all the payment by VISA card) Conference room 25K$ On-site Food 60K$ Banquet 65K$ Student travel/design contest award 10K$ Total 270K$ 5 Additional Consideration Description of involvement of the local academic or industrial EDA / LSI Design fields. Local academia and industrial EDA and LSI Design companies have taken active part in the bidding and organizing this conference. Proposals for Tutorials (highly recommended to be held). We propose 4 paid tutorials to be conducted in ASP-DAC 2018, mainly for Design Automation for X (X can be anything that is interesting to the Audience). Some free tutorials can also be arranged, for example, Xilinx Professor Workshops. Proposals for LSI Design contest (highly recommended to be held). We will include the LSI Design Contest in our program. We have some experiences in organizing the Design contest in both FPGA conferences and the ISLPED design contest. Proposals for the EDA exhibition or related activities. We will give the exhibition opportunities to the sponsors, and we will push design automation to not only devices/circuits, but also various other systems. 6

7 CVs of the selected committee members: General Co-Chairs Yuan Xie University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Yuan Xie is currently a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Pennsylvania State University and will join University of California at Santa Barbara starting from July 1, He has worked for IBM Microelectronic Division as design engineer before joining Penn State. He also took leave from Penn State and helped AMD start Beijing R&D center and led the AMD Research China team from 2012 to Prof. Xie is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) award, the SRC Inventor Recognition Award, IBM Faculty Award, and several Best Paper Award and Best Paper Award Nominations at IEEE/ACM conferences. He has published more than 200 research papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, in the area of EDA, computer architecture, VLSI circuit designs, and embedded systems. He has served as TPC chair for ASPDAC 2013 and TPC vice-chair for ASPDAC He also served as general co-chair and TPC co-chair for ISLPED 2014 and 2013, respectively. He is currently Associate Editor for ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits (TCAD), IEEE Design and Test of Computers, IET Computers and Digital Techniques (IET CDT). Huazhong Yang Huazhong Yang is currently a Professor in the department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. Dr. Yang is a recipient of National Outstanding Youth Fund Project, and he is also a professor of Yangtze River scholars authorized by the Ministry of education. His research focuses on the IoT chip design and related application systems, SoC low power circuits and systems, EDA technology, etc. He has published more than 330 research papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, and gained more than 70 Chinese patents authority. He served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Tran CAS-II from January 2010 to December He is the Associate Editor of?international Journal of Electronics from 2007 and Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers from He organized the TPC meeting of ASPDAC 2013 as co-chairs with Prof. Yuan Xie. Secretaries Yu Wang Dr. Yu Wang is an Associate Prof. in EE Dept, Tsinghua University. Dr. Wang s research mainly focuses on parallel circuit analysis, application specific hardware computing (especially on the Brain related problems), and power and reliability aware system design methodology. Dr. Wang has authored and coauthored over 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is the recipient of IBM X10 Facaulty Award in 2010, Best Paper Award in ISVLSI 2012, Best Poster Award in HEART 2012, and 6 Best Paper Nomination in ASPDAC/CODES/ISLPED. He serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Trans on CAD, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He serves as the TPC secretary for ASPDAC 2013, and serves as the ASPDAC TPC member from 2010 to 2012 and 2014/15. He was the TPC Co-Chair of ICFPT 2011, Finance Chair of ISLPED 2012/2013/2014, and serves as TPC member in many important conferences (DAC, FPGA, DATE, ASPDAC, ISLPED, ISQED, ICFPT, ISVLSI, etc). Rong Luo Dr. Rong Luo is an Associate Prof. in EE Dept, Tsinghua University. Dr. Luo mainly focuses on the research related to hardware computing and data mining based technology for big data applications, design 7

8 methedology for wearable devices. She has authored and coauthored over 50 papers in refereed journals and conferences. Dr. Luo serves as the general secretary of Beijing EDA/SOPC association from She serves as the logistic chair for ASPDAC 2013 TPC meeting. Nozomu Togawa Waseda University, Japan Dr. Nozomu Togawa is currently a professor in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University. Dr. Nozomu Togawa s research mainly focuses on SoC design methodology and image/commmunication processing related to SoC design. Dr. Nozomu Togawa received a number of awards including the Best Paper Award of IEEE ASPDAC 1995, the Azusa Ono Award of Waseda University, and the 2006 IEEE DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest 1st Place. Local Arrangement Chair Guang-yu Sun Peking University, China Dr. Guangyu Sun is an assistant professor of Center for Energy-efficient Computing and Applications (CECA) at Peking University. He received his B.S. and M.S degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in His research interests include computer architecture, VLSI Design, and electronic design automation (EDA). He has published 40+ journals and refereed conference papers in these areas. Dr. Sun is an active volunteer in the communities of computer architecture, VLSI, and design automation. He has been serving as a program committee member and track chair for several conferences in these areas, including DATE, ASP-DAC, GLSVLSI, VLSID, and NAS. He served as the local arrangement chair and in TPC for ISLPED He has also served as a peer reviewer and technical referee for several journals, which include IEEE Micro, IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAD, etc. Tutorials Chair Yu Hu Chinese academy of sciences, China Yu HU received her B.S., M.S. and Ph. D. degrees all in electrical engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 1997, 1999, and 2003, respectively. Currently, she is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests generally include architectural-level and circuit-level reliable design and fault diagnosis techniques. Dr. Hu has published over 70 refereed/peer-reviewed research papers and led over 10 research projects supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People s Republic of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, and industries. She has served on the Technical Program Committee of a number of international conferences, including IPDPS, PACT, ASPDAC, ATS, WRTLT and FPT. Dr. Hu received a number of awards including the Zhu Liyuehua Outstanding Teacher Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, the Lu Jia-Xi Young Talent Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, and Wangxuan Award for Innovation from China Computer Federation in Finance Co-Chairs Yun Liang Peking University, China Dr. Yun Liang is an assistant professor in Center for Energy-efficient Computing and Applications (CECA) at Peking University. He received his B.S. degree from Tongji University, Shanghai in He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in He was a research scientist in ADSC, UIUC before he joined PKU in His research interests include compiler, computer 8

9 architecture, and embedded system. He has published 30+ journals and refereed conference papers in these areas. Dr Liang has served as a program committee member and track chair for several conferences in these areas, including DATE, ASP-DAC, and CASES. His research wins best paper award at FCCM 12 and best award nominations at DAC 12, CODES+ISSS 08, FPT 11. Yin-he Han Chinese academy of sciences, China Yinhe Han is Associate Professor in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Han received his Ph. D degree from CAS in He is interested on VLSI design, novel architecture specially on on-chip network and fault-tolerant computing. He has published more than 40 papers on this area, including several top conference papers, include HPCA12, ISCA11, ISCA10, DAC1113, etc.. Prof. Hans honors include National (China) Outstanding Dissertation Award Candidates (2008), Outstanding Dissertation Award of China Computer Federation, State Technological Invention Award 2012, Best Paper Award of the 2003 Asian Test Symposium. He served as TPC member in many important chip design and architecture conferences (HPCA, PACT, etc.) He served as the Financial Chair of HPCA 2013, and help with the local industry liaison for ISLPED Publicity Co-Chairs Fan Yang Fudan University, China Dr. Fan Yang is an Associate Prof. in Microelectronics Department, Fudan University. His research interests focuses on circuit simulation and modeling. He received the first-class Award of Natural Science from Shanghai Government in He also received the Best Paper Award nomination from IEEE/ACM DAC in He serves as the TPC member in ICCD and ASPDAC from 2012 to Deming Chen, UIUC, USA Dr. Deming Chen obtained his BS in computer science from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1995, and his MS and PhD in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He worked as a software engineer between and He has been an associate professor in the ECE department of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since He is a research associate professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor in the CS department. He has published more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers in the areas of FPGA (synthesis, computing, architecture), EDA (system-level/high-level/logic synthesis), GPU (compilation, computing), nanotechnology (device modeling, nano-circuits, nano-architectures), and heterogeneous computing (application mapping for systems with multicore/fpga/gpu). In the recent years, he is also actively involved with other research directions, such as computational genomics, hardware security, and computation in smart grid. He has served as PI/Co-PI on 18 research grants administered by US Federal agencies as well as the industry with a total amount of funding of $3.4M to support his research so far. In addition, he has been a seconded faculty member for the Illinois ADSC center in Singapore since March 2010, supervising a research group there with a total amount of funding of $2.7M dedicated to his group in ADSC. He has received Five Best Paper Awards (ASPDAC 09, SASP 09, FCCM 11, SAAHPC 11, and CODES+ISSS 13) and numerous other awards. Koji Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan He is currently an Associate Prof. in Department of Informatics, Kyushu University. His research mainly focuses on 3D IC, reconfigurable computing, high-performance/low-power micro-architecture, dependable computing (security and reliability), and performance prediction/simulation/analysis. He has published over 100 papers. 9

10 Publication Chair Yu-chun Ma Dr. Yuchun Ma is an Associate Prof. in CS Dept, Tsinghua University. Her research mainly focuses on physical design automation algorithm for ASIC and FPGA designs, optimization methodologies for 3D ICs and high level synthesis algorithms. Prof.Ma has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences. Several papers got the best paper awards or nominations including: Best Paper Award in ISVLSI 2012, Best Poster Award in ASCICON 2007/2001, and Best Paper Nomination in ASPDAC Due to her excellent teaching ability, she got the First Prize at Beijing Teaching skills competition in 2013.She serves as the TPC chair for ICFPT 2014, and serves as the ASPDAC TPC member since She is the steering committee member of ASPDAC and Finance Chair of ICFPT 2010, and serves as TPC member in many important conferences. Registration Chair Zuo-chang Ye Dr. Zuochang Ye is an Associate Prof. in Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University. Dr. Ye mainly focuses on the research related to modeling, analysis and simulation for VLSI circuits, and application of statistical analysis. He has published over 40 papers. Dr. Ye is IEEE Senior Member since He serves as the reviewer for IEEE TCAD, TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TMTT, ACM TODAES, and TPC Member of DAC 2014, ICCAD10 13, ASP-DAC10 11, DATE10, PATMOS Industry Liaison Chair Wen-ting Hou Mediatek, China Dr. Wenting Hou got her bachelor degree from Xian Jiaotong University at 1998, Phd. degree from Tsinghua University at She worked inside EDA companies around 7 years, such as Cadence, Synopsys as senior R&D engineer. Now she is working at Mediatek as Design Automation team manager. Her interested research areas include physical design automation, transistor simulation technology and automation tool in RTL level. She holds one US patent and has published more than 10 papers. Among these papers, there are 4 papers at Design Automation Conference, and one paper got best paper candidate at DAC She was technical program committee member at ISQED Design Contest Chair Wenjian Yu Dr. Wenjian Yu is an Associate Professor with Dept. Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. Dr. Yu s research mainly focuses on physical modeling and simulation of integrated circuits, and a broad range of numerical algorithms, stochastic algorithms and their parallelization. Dr. Yu has authored/coauthored two books and over 130 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He was the recipient of the distinguished Ph.D. Award from Tsinghua University in 2003, and 3 Best Paper Nomination in ASPDAC/ISQED. Dr. Yu has been an IEEE senior member since Dr. Yu serves as a Member of Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal and Journal of Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics since He also serves as a TPC member of international conferences including ASPDAC, ICCAD, SLIP, ICFPT, CSTIC etc. Exhibition Chair Yong-pan Liu 10

11 Dr. Yongpan Liu is an associate professor in Dept. of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University. His main research interests include low power VLSI design, emerging device based circuits and systems and design automation. His research is supported by NSFC, 863, 973 Program and Industry Companies such as Intel, Rohm, IBM and so on. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and led over 6 SoC design projects for sensor applications and has received the ISLPED2012/2013 Design Contest Award and several Best Paper Candidates. He is an IEEE(IEICE) member and has been invited to serve on several conference technical program committees (DAC, ASP-DAC, ISLPED, ICCD, A-SSCC, etc). He serves as the secretary of ACM SIGDA North China Chapter and Steering Committee member of Asia Smart Sensor Workshop. Web Chair Guo-jie Luo Peking University, China Guojie Luo is an assistant professor in the Center for Energy-Efficient Computing and Applications (CECA), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Peking University since His current research interests include physical design automation, scalable algorithms, and advanced design technologies for 3D ICs. He published 20+ papers, including 3 journal papers. He served as a TPC member of ASP-DAC 2013, 2014, NanoArch 2013, 2014, ISPD 2014, and ICCAD 2014; he also served as a reviewer for the following publications: IEEE TCAD, IEEE TVLSI, ACM TRETS, ACM JETC. He designed and implemented 3D-Craft, a state-of-the-art 3D physical design flow, and his PhD thesis Placement and Design Planning for 3D Integrated Circuits won the 2013 ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation. Designers Forum Chair Qiang Xu Chinese University in HK, China Qiang Xu is an Associate Professor in CSE Dept., The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Xu s research interests include VLSI testing, fault-tolerant computing, and trusted computing. He has authored and coauthored more than 100 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. He received Best Paper Award at DATE 04 and he has four other papers nominated for Best Paper Award at ICCAD/DATE/ASPDAC. He serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Design & Test Magazine. He is the TPC co-chair for IEEE Asian Test Symposium 2014, and he has served as TPC members for a number of conferences in VLSI design and testing (DAC, ICCAD, ITC, DATE, ASPDAC, ICFPT, etc.). Student Forum Chair Jiang Xu HKUST, China Jiang Xu received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. From 2001 to 2002, he worked at Bell Labs, NJ, as a Research Associate and discovered the First Generation Dilemma in platform-based SoC design methodologies. He was a Research Associate at NEC Laboratories America, NJ, from 2003 to 2005 and working on Network-on-Chip designs and implementations. He joined a startup company, Sandbridge Technologies, NY, from 2005 to 2007 and worked on the development and implementation of two generations of NoC-based ultra-low power Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip for mobile platforms. Dr. Xu established Mobile Computing System Lab and Xilinx-HKUST Joint Lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He currently serves as the Area Editor of NoC, SoC, and GPU for ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. He served on the steering committees, organizing committees, and technical program com- 11

12 mittees of many international conferences, including ICCAD, CASES, ICCD, EMSOFT, CODES+ISSS, NOCS, RTCSA, ASP-DAC, etc. Dr. Xu is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He authored and coauthored more than 80 book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He coauthored a book titled Algorithms, Architecture and System-on-Chip Design for Wireless Applications (Cambridge University Press). His research areas include network-on-chip, multiprocessor system-on-chip, optical interconnect, embedded system, computer architecture, low-power VLSI design, and HW/SW codesign. 12