Awards

The recently published Academic Research Ranking by Microsoft Corp (http://academic.research.microsoft.com/) ranks 20 Computer Science topics from Algorithms and Theory to the World Wide Web including 2.4 million publications. In the specific topic titled Hardware and Architecture, which is particularly pertinent to the UCI Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS), it ranks over one-hundred thousand researchers world wide. CECS is very highly ranked by sharing 6th place with MIT, UCLA, Princeton and UIUC with 4 faculty in the top 100. First on the list is UCB with 10 in 100, followed by Stanford with 9, Michigan with 7 and UCSD and CMU with 5 faculty members in the top 100...

From EDAA Press Release: The EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award 2010 goes to Daniel D. Gajski.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to individuals who made outstanding contributions to the state of the art in electronic design, automation and testing of electronic systems in their life. In order to be eligible, candidates must have made innovative contributions which had an impact on the way electronic systems are being designed.

Past recipients have been Kurt Antreich (2003), Hugo De Man (2004), Jochen Jess (2005), Robert Brayton (2006), Tom W. Williams (2007), Ernest S. Kuh (2008) and Jan M. Rabaey (2009). The Award will be presented at the plenary session of the 2010 DATE Conference, to be held 8-12 March in Dresden, Germany.

Gabor Madl, a CECS graduate student pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, received the 2008 ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award at the 2007 Embedded Systems Week Conference held in Salzburg, Austria. This award recognizes one student researcher from each of the professional societies (ACM SIGBED and ACM SIGSOFT), promoting the crossover of ideas between […]

Jelena Trajkovic, a PhD candidate in computer science, and Professor Daniel D Gajski, received best paper award at the second International Embedded System Symposium that took place in Irvine, California from May 30th to June 1st 2007. Their paper is titled “Automatic Data Path Generation from C Code for Custom Processors.” The paper was selected […]

Payam Heydari, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and a Calit2 academic affiliate at UC Irvine, has won this year’s prestigious Guillemin- Cauer Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Heydari is also the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award, which puts him in an elite group […]

Bita Gorjiara has won the prestigious Hami Award of Excellence in Engineering Education for the year 2007. Sponsored by the Fanni Reunion Foundation, the Hami award recognizes outstanding M.Sc. and Ph.D. graduates with a previous degree from University of Tehran. Each year, Hami award is given to one or two students with excellent academic record […]

Love Singhal, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and professor of computer science Eli Bozorgzadeh received the Best Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'06) that took place in Madrid, Spain, August 28-30 2006. The awarded paper is titled "Multi-layer Floorplanning on a Sequence of Reconfigurable Designs." […]

Graduate Student  Sudeep Pasricha has been selected for the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC) fellowship award for 2005/2006. He was also a previous recipient of this award for the term of 2004/2005.

Professor Daniel Gajski has been presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oldenburg, Germany in recognition of his contributions in the areas of Embedded Systems and Design Science.

Graduate student Sudeep Pasricha and Professor Nikil Dutt, proudly receive their Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2006 (ASPDAC 2006) which took place in Yokohama, Japan on January 24, 2006. Their award winning technical paper is entitled "Constraint-driven Bus Matrix Synthesis for MPSoC."

Payam Heydari has been announced the winner of the 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award for his journal entitled "Analysis of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate Noise" published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems , vol. 51, no. 12, pages 2404-2416, December 2004.

The Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) announces that it is receiving graduate student applications for two Henry T. Nicholas, III Research Fellowships for the 2005-2006 academic year.