Jingsheng Jason Cong

University of California, Los Angeles

Computer Science Department

4731J Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095

Tel: (310) 206-2775

E-mail: cong@cs.ucla.edu

 

 

 

Education

·          Ph.D. in Computer Science:  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990

·          M.S. in Computer Science: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987

·          B.S. in Computer Science: Peking University, 1985

 

Professional Experience

1990–Present     

University of California, Los Angeles,

·          Chancellor’s Professor (2008 – present), Computer Science Department

·          Associate Vice Provost – Internationalization (2010 – present)

·          Director, Center of Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) (2009 – present)

·          Co-Director, VLSI CAD Laboratory (1991 – present)

·          Department Chair (2005 – 2008), Computer Science Department

·          Professor  (1998 – present); Associate Professor  (1994 – 1998); Assistant Professor (1990 – 1994)

 

2006–Present: Co-founder and Chief Technology Advisor, AutoESL Design Technologies

2003–2008: Chief Technology Advisor, Magma Design Automation

1998–2003: Founder and President, Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. (acquired by Magma in 2003)                

1994 (summer): Visiting Faculty, Intel Corporation

1986–1990: Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

·         IEEE Circuits and System (CAS) Society Technical Achievement Award (2010), for seminal contributions to electronic design automation, especially in FPGA synthesis, VLSI interconnect optimization, and physical design automation.

·          Best Paper Award, 2009 IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP)

·          Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award (2009)

·          ACM Fellow (2008), for contributions to electronic design automation.

·          Best Paper Award, 2008 International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

·          Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award (2006)

·          Outstanding Alumni Award of Peking University (2005)

·          Best Paper Award, 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) (April 2005)

·          Best Paper Award, ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (2005)

·          Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2004-2005)

·          Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2004)

·          Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Award (2000), for his work in area "Interconnect Estimation Planning  and Synthesis for Deep Sub-micron Designs".

·          IEEE Fellow (2000), for seminal contributions in computer-aided design of integrated circuits, especially in physical design automation, interconnect optimization, and synthesis of field-programmable gate-arrays.

·          Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award (2000)

·          Guest Professorship, Peking University (2000)

·          ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Award (1998)

·          ACM Recognition of Service Award (1997)

·          Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design from IEEE Circuits and System Society (1995)

·          National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1993)

·          Northrop Corporation Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award from UCLA (1993)

·          National Science Foundation Engineering Research Initiation Award (1991)

·          Ross J. Martin Award for Excellence in Research from University of Illinois (1989)

·          DEC Fellowship in Computer Science (1988)

·          Best Graduate Award from Peking University (1985)

 

Editorship

·          Editorial Board Member of Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation (2005 - present)

·          Advisory Board Member , IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2001-present),

·          Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (1995 – 2005)

·          Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (1999 – 2002)

·          Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Special Issues on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (1997 – 1998)

 

Services To Professional Conferences and Symposia (selected)

·          Program Committee Member (2010), Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE)

·          Member of Panel Committee (2008 – 2009), Strategy Committee (2005-2007),  Program Committee Member (1997-2001), Design Automation Conference (DAC)

·          Program Committee Member (1995 – 2010), General Chair (1998), Program Chair (1997), Publicity Chair (1996), ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGA)

·          Program Committee Member (2005 – 2009), International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications.

·          Program Committee Member (1994 – 2009), Program Co-Chair (1999), Publication Chair (1998), Publicity Chair (1996), IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)

·          Program Committee Member (2009), IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors

·          Program Committee Member and EDA Subcommittee Chair (2009), International Symposium on VLSI Design,  Automation and Test (VLSI-DAT)

·          General Co-Chair (2005, 2007), ASICON

·          General Co-Chair (2005), Program Co-Chair (2003), Program Committee Member (2006), Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

·          Program Committee Area Chair (1996), Program Committee Member & Session Chair (1993-1996, 2002), IEEE International Conference on Computer – Aided Design (ICCAD).

·          Program Co-Chair for Tools and Methodology Track, 2003, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)

·          Program Committee Member (1998 – 2003), Steering Committee Member (2004-2006), International Symposium on Physical Design

·          General Chair (1993), Program Committee Member (1993, 1996), ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop  

 

Services to Professional Societies

·          Board of Governors, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2000 – 2004)

·          Member of Advisory Board of ACM SIGDA (1993 – 1999)

 

Industry Advisory Boards

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Raytheon Corporation for DARPA TRUST Program (2007 – 2008)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Kilopass Technology Inc. (2004 – 2005)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of eASIC Corporation (2001 – present)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Get2Chip, Inc. (2000 – 2003) until its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in 2003.

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Atrenta, Inc. (2002 – 2003; 2007- present)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Ultima Interconnect Technologies, Inc. (1996 – 2000). Ultima merged with BTA and formed Celestry Technologies, which was acquired by Cadence in 2002.

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Magma Design Automation (1997 – 2001).  Magma went IPO in 2001 (Nsdq:LAVA)

·          Consultant to Intel Corporation (1994 – 1998)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of DARPA MCM project at Mentor Graphics (1994 – 1996)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Silicon Valley Research (1995 – 1996)

 

Graduated Students

PhD Graduates

1.        Eugene Ding (Ph.D. 1995), MTS, Bell Laboratories

2.        Patrick Madden (Ph.D. 1998), Associate Professor, State Univ. of New York at Binghamton

3.        Cheng-Kok Koh (Ph.D. 1998), Associate Professor, Purdue University

4.        Yeanyow Hwang (Ph.D. 1999), Senior Software Engineer, Synopsys

5.        Chang Wu (Ph.D. 1999), Senior Engineer, Magma Design Automation

6.        Lei He (Ph.D. 1999), Associate Professor, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

7.        Sung-Kyu Lim (Ph.D. 2000), Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

8.        Sarah Songjie Xu (Ph.D. 2000), Senior Manager, Magma Design Automation

9.        David Zhigang Pan (Ph.D. 2000), Associate Professor, University of Austin, Texas

10.     Jie Fang (Ph.D. 2001), Senior Engineer, Broadcom Corporation

11.     Chin-Chih Chang (Ph.D. 2002), Member of Consulting Staff, Cadence

12.     Tianming (Tim) Kong (Ph.D. 2002), Senior Engineer, Magma Design Automation

13.     Xin Yuan (Ph.D. 2003), EDA Software Developer, IBM Corporation

14.     Michail Romesis (Ph.D. 2005), Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

15.     Michael Gang Chen (Ph.D. 2005), Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

16.     Ashok Jagannathan (Ph.D. 2005), Senior Platform Simulation Engineer, Intel Corporation

17.     Deming Chen (Ph. D. 2005), Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

18.     Kenton Sze, (Ph. D. 2006), Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

19.     Yan Zhang (Ph.D. 2006), Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

20.     Min Xie (Ph.D. 2006),  Sr. Member of Technical Staff, KBC

21.     Joey Yizhou Lin, (Ph.D. 2006), Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

22.     Yiping Fan, (Ph.D. 2006), Co-founder and Director of Engineering, AutoESL Design Technologies

23.     Zhiru Zhang (Ph.D. 2007), Co-founder and Director of Engineering, AutoESL Design Technologies

24.     Guoling Han (Ph.D. 2007), Sr. Engineer, AutoESL Design Technologies

25.   Wei Jiang (Ph. D. 2009), Google Inc.

26.   Kirill Minkovich (Ph. D. 2010), Postdoc, HRL Laboratories

 

MS Graduates

 

  1. M'lissa Smith (MS 1992)
  2. Antonios Papandreous (MS 1992)
  3. Huy Cao (MS 1993)
  4. Ka-Kei Kwok (MS 1994)
  5. Jenny Z. Li (MS 1994)
  6. Jeff Liao (MS 1995)
  7. John Peck (MS 1995)
  8. Sung Lim (MS 1997)
  9. David Zhigang Pan (MS 1998)
  10. Liding Sun (MS 1999)
  11. Michail Romesis (MS 2001)
  12. Michael (Gang) Chen (MS 2001)
  13. Deming Chen (MS 2001)
  14. Yizhou (Joey) Lin (MS 2002)
  15. Yiping Fan (MS 2003)
  16. Min Xie (MS 2003)
  17. Zhiru Zhang (MS 2003)
  18. Jie Wei (MS 2004)
  19. Guoling Han (MS 2004)
  20. Wei Jiang (MS 2006)
  21. Kirill Minkovich (MS 2006)
  22. Amit Agarwal (MS 2008)
  23. Yanshu Fan (MS 2009)
  24. Yuhui Huang (MS 2010)

 

Research Interests And Publications

 

Dr. Cong’s research interests include synthesis and layout of VLSI circuits, highly scalable VLSI design algorithms and tools, design and synthesis of programmable circuits and systems, computer architectures, and system-on-a-chip designs.  Currently, he is leading a research group of 10 to 12 Ph. D. students, several research staff members, and several M.S. students working in these areas. He has published over 300 research papers and led over 40 research projects funded by DARPA, NSF, SRC, UC MICRO and various industrial sponsors. A complete publications list is attached.

 

 

PATENTS

 

·         Jason Cong and David Z. Pan, U.S. Patent No. 6,408,427, Issued June 18, 2002, “Wire Width Planning and Performance Optimization for VLSI Interconnects”

·         Jason Cong and David Z. Pan, U.S. Patent No. 7,013,253, Issued March 14, 2006, “Method and Apparatus for Calculation of Crosstalk Noise in Integrated Circuits”

 

 

Publications

 

Invited Talks and Tutorials