News/Events

• Dr. Taskin started and will serve as the treasurer of the IEEE Central Pennsylvania,Pittsburgh, Philadelphia Joint Sections Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Chapter.

• Tutorial delivered at ICCD 2015: "Sigil and SynchroTrace: Communication-Aware Workload Profiling and Memory- NoC Simulation" @ IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015, New York City, NY (with Prof. Mark Hempstead, Tufts University, Stephan Diestelhorst, ARM Research).

• Two familiar faces on the cover of the 2014-15 report from the Drexel Fellowship Office; Paco as a mentor (GRFP 2014) and Scott for having received the NDSEG and GRFP this year in 2015. Drexel Fellowship Office 2014-2015 Report

• Mike Lui will give a tutorial on "Communication-Aware Workload Profiling and Memory-NoC Simulation with Sigil and SynchroTrace" @ International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2015.

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• Dr. Taskin and Dr. Salman (Stony Brook University) gave a tutorial on "Low Voltage Power Delivery and Clocking in Nanoscale Technologies: Basics to Recent Advances" @ IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal [1].

• Renamed "Drexel VLSI Lab" to "Drexel VLSI and Architecture Lab" to more accurately reflect the current Research portfolio.

• Scott Lerner received 52nd DAC Richard Newton Young Fellowship from Design Automation Conference in 2015.

• Scott Lerner received the DoD NSDEG fellowship (declined) in 2015.

• Scott Lerner received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2015. Drexel Fellowship Office news

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• Giordano Salvador (REU 2013, REU 2014, also independent research, UPenn) received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2015, will attend UIUC.

• Michael Miller (REU 2013, Goshen College) received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2015, will attend CMU.

• Can Sitik and Karthik Sangaiah received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2015.

• Prof. Taskin is the TPC chair for IEEE/ACM System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP) Workshop 2015 [2]

• Scott Lerner received the A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Program travel grant from Design Automation Conference in 2014.

• Karthik Sangaiah received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2014. Drexel Fellowship Office news

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• Can Sitik received the Leroy L. Rosser fellowship from Drexel University in 2014.

• Karthik Sangaiah received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2014.

• Best paper nomination for Can Sitik at the ACM GLSVLSI 2013 for the paper entitled "Skew-Bounded Low Swing Clock Tree Optimization".

• Can Sitik received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2013.

• Prof. Taskin is selected the "Young Electrical Engineer of the Year 2013" by the IEEE Philadelphia Section.

• Prof. Taskin organized and presented a tutorial on "Resonant Clocking" with Prof. Matthew Guthaus of UCSC and Drexel VLSI Lab Alumni Dr. Vinayak Honkote of Intel at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2012 in San Jose, CA. program link

• Drexel student newspaper article on hybrid wireless NoC project Drexel Triangle link
• News release from Drexel about our hybrid wireless NoC project August 2012 DrexelNOW link

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• Dr. Taskin received the ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service Award in 2012.

• Ying Teng received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2012.

• See our article titled "What is Wireless Interconnect?" in the February 2012 edition of the ACM SIGDA newsletter to 3000+ recipients.

• Ying Teng received the N. Bilgutay fellowship from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2011.

• Here is the report for the Drexel Office of International Programs travel award for Dr. Taskin to ISCAS'11. [3]

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• Ying Teng's first journal paper "Look-up Table Based Low Power Rotary Traveling Wave Design Considering the Skin Effect" is featured on the cover of the Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE) in December 2010. Check out the Publications page for details.

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• Ankit More received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2010.

• Jianchao Lu and Ying Teng presented their work in University Booth, at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, CA, in 2010.

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• Sharat Chandra recipient of the Young Student Support Program Award for the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, CA in 2010:

Young Student Support Program DAC

• The NSF-funded REU Site opportunity on "Computing for Power and Energy" directed by Dr. Taskin is starting in Summer 2010: REU Site on Computing for Power and Energy: The Old, The New and The Renewable. This site will run for the next three years.

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• Vinayak received the first N. Bilgutay fellowship from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2010.

• Jianchao Lu and Vinayak Honkote presented their work in University Booth and Ph.D. Forum, respectively, at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in San Francisco, CA, in 2009.

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• Jianchao Lu and Vinayak Honkote participated in the SIGDA CADAthlon at ICCAD 2008 in San Jose, CA.

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• Accepting the A. Richard Newton Award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in 2007.

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• Drexel Senior Design team, also winners of the CE award, presented at the University Booth at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in San Diego, CA, in 2007.

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