{"id":2379,"date":"2026-09-18T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:29:17","slug":"jason-cong-received-the-pender-award-from-penn-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"Jason Cong Receives the Pender Award from Penn Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-opt-id=1454252928  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/mlhg4gntrt4y.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jason-Cong-SQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t<b>Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong for receiving the Pender Award from Penn Engineering!<\/b>Prof. Jason Cong received the\u00a0Pender\u00a0Award\u00a0from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania on March 18, 2025 \u201cfor groundbreaking contributions in field-programmable gate arrays and electronic design automation\u201d. \u00a0Established in 1972, the\u00a0Pender\u00a0Award, initiated in 1972,\u00a0\u00a0is\u00a0the school\u2019s highest honor, and it\u00a0is named for Harold Pender, the\u00a0founding Dean of Penn\u2019s Moore School of Electrical Engineering, who led the school during the development and debut of ENIAC in 1945.\u00a0 Past recipients represent some of the most distinguished figures in engineering, recognized for their profound contributions to society. Recent honorees include Shafi Goldwasser, Yann LeCun, Barbara Liskov, Robert Kahn, and Vinton Cerf.For the full list of recipients, please see\u00a0link\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/events.seas.upenn.edu\/distinguished-lectures\/pender-lecture\/__;!!Mih3wA!AjHelDKW8os2wVpI1jG2kwyb3B59HVTkZe6mXjIjEjybvSiWVpYVTI-W_jZmzSQUpgIaIEB9CLrutO35$\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/events.seas.upenn.edu\/distinguished-lectures\/pender-lecture\/__;!!Mih3wA!AjHelDKW8os2wVpI1jG2kwyb3B59HVTkZe6mXjIjEjybvSiWVpYVTI-W_jZmzSQUpgIaIEB9CLrutO35$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1789838484054000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0F31pLD3ftmdssXWVj8btG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/events.seas.<wbr \/>upenn.edu\/distinguished-<wbr \/>lectures\/pender-lecture\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong for receiving the Pender Award from Penn Engineering!Prof. Jason Cong received the\u00a0Pender\u00a0Award\u00a0from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania on March 18, 2025 \u201cfor groundbreaking contributions in field-programmable gate arrays and electronic design automation\u201d. \u00a0Established in 1972, the\u00a0Pender\u00a0Award, initiated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prism.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}