2024 Award Winners

William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award

Frontend : “An Agile Framework for Efficient LLM Accelerator Development and Model Inference. “
Lvcheng Chen, Ying Wu, Chenyi Wen, Shizhang Wang, Li Zhang, Bei Yu, QI SUN and Cheng Zhuo

Backend: “A Neural-Ordinary-Differential-Equations Based Generic Approach for Process Modeling in DTCO: A Case Study in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization and Copper Plating”
Yue Qian and Lan Chen


ICCAD 10 Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award

Tsung-Wei Huang and Martin D.F. Wong,
“OpenTimer: A high-performance timing analysis tool”
2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)


2024 Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award

Mahdi Nikdast (Colorado State University)
"for outstanding contributions to design methodologies, optimization, and automation targeting emerging integrated photonic systems-on-chip."


2024 Outstanding Service Recognition Award

Evangeline Young (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"for outstanding service to the EDA Community as ICCAD General Chair in 2023"


Best Reviewer Award

Jongeun Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Leslie Hwang, Arizona State University
Lana Josipovic, ETH Zurich