Award

Jason Cong received the UIUC Grainger College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service “for impactful research and entrepreneurial work on electronic design automation, quantum and customized computing, FPGA, and highly scalable algorithms.”  The other six awardees include a university president, an US Air Force Major General, and highly successful industry leaders and entrepreneurs with significant Read more…

ACM has named Jason Cong, the holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the recipient of the 2024 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Cong is recognized for fundamental contributions to the design and automation of field-programmable systems and customizable Read more…

Congratulations to Sayeef Salahuddin for winning the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award! The IEEE Technical Field Awards are among IEEE’s most prestigious. The Andrew S Grove Award recognizes an individual or team for outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology. Salahuddin is cited “for pioneering contributions to physics of ferroelectrics and integrated Read more…

Congratulations to Suman Datta on being honored for outstanding contributions to semiconductor research! SIA and SRC present the University Research Awards annually to professors who demonstrate excellence in advancing research in semiconductor technology and design. Professors Datta and Flynn will accept the awards at the SIA Awards Dinner on Nov. 21, 2024, in Read more…

Jason Cong Recognized for Significant Contributions to FPGA Design Automation Technology and Electronic System Design Education and Industry The annual award from the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), a SEMI technology community, and the Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Read more…

Prof. Jason Cong has been selected to receive the 2025 ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented at the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) in Austin, TX, on March 16-19, 2025.  This award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of physical design automation Read more…

Congratulations to Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, for being one of six Penn State faculty elected to the 2023 cohort of AAAS Fellows!UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Six Penn State faculty members in areas ranging from neuropharmacology to computer architecture have been elected to the 2023 cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Read more…

Congratulations to Jason Cong for being one of five UCLA faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.New members were elected “for their accomplishments and for the curiosity, creativity and courage required to reach new heights,” said David Oxtoby, the academy’s Read more…

Congratulations to Vijaykrishnan Narayanan for being honored with Evan Pugh University Professorship, the University’s highest faculty honor.UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Five Penn State professors have been named Evan Pugh University Professors, an elite and prestigious distinction conferred by the University on only 79 faculty members since the establishment of the designation in 1960.  

Congratulations to Nam Sung Kim and Shimeng Yu for receiving the 2023 Outstanding Research Award from Intel! Professor Nam Sung Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USARethinking Communication Infrastructure for Edge and Cloud Applications Prof. Kim and his team of researchers have been conducting advanced system innovations that promote new technologies on Intel Read more…