UCLA Engineering | 2008 Technology Forum

JASON CONG | Professor and Chair
Computer Science

Advances in Electronic Design Automation for Giga-scale Integration

In this presentation, Dr. Cong will highlight some recent advances in very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit and system design for giga-scale integration. In particular, he will present a number of exciting results on design productivity improvement via system-level and behavior synthesis and highly scalable algorithms, efficient on-chip communication using radio-frequency interconnects, and robust design based on novel statistical optimization techniques for nano-scale devices. These results were achieved with close collaboration with departments of electrical engineering (Professors Frank Chang and Lieven Vandenberghe) and mathematics (Professor Tony Chan).

Jason Cong received his BS degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor and the Chairman of the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a co-director of the VLSI CAD Laboratory. Dr. Cong’s research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems, design and synthesis of system-on-a-chip, programmable systems, novel computer architectures, nano-systems, and highly scalable algorithms. He has published over 250 research papers and led over 30 research projects in these areas. He received four Best Paper Awards selected for the 1995 IEEE Trans. on CAD, the 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), the 2005 ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, and the 2008 International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), respectively. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2000.