Events

The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded Professor Nikil Dutt with the title of ACM Distinguished Scientist. The ACM recognizes members who have made significant accomplishments or achieved significant impacts in the computing field.

Minyoung Kim, a CECS graduate student pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, received two awards - "Best System Architecture Award" and "Best Overall Idea Award" - at the 2007 IEEE Real Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) PhD Forum held in Tucson, AZ. The RTSS PhD Forum, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is designed to discuss […]

Dr. Rainer Doemer, assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, has been honored by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The prestigious award, along with a $400,000 grant, was in recognition of his research in modeling embedded computer systems, and more specifically, "Result-Oriented System-Level Modeling for Efficient Design of Embedded Systems."

Congratulations to Professor Fadi Kurdahi for his award from his alma mater, American University of Beirut. Professor Kurdahi was recognized for his contributions to design automation of digital systems. The Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut recognized six of its alumni with awards during the Seventh FEA Student Conference, which […]

Mohammad Ali Ghodrat, Tony Givargis, and Alex Nicolau recently received the Best Paper Award for CASES 2008 for their “Control Flow Optimization in Loops Using Interval Analysis.” Congratulations! Abstract of Paper:  The work presents a novel loop transformation technique, particularly well suited for optimizing embedded compilers, where an increase in compilation time is acceptable in […]

Adapted 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 […]

The paper "Efficient Simulation of Large-Scale Spiking Neural Networks Using CUDA Graphics Processors" authored by Jayram Moornikara, Nikil Dutt, Jeffrey Krichmar, Alex Nicolau, and Alex Veidenbaum was recognized with a Best Paper Award at the 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2009). IJCNN is the premier international conference in the area of neural […]