This is a special workshop organized for current, or soon to be, young faculty in the field of electronic design automation (EDA). The workshop will be organized as presentations by EDA senior professionals, with additional opportunities to network with some of the established researchers and funding officers in the field of EDA. The themes this year include: Getting an Academic Job, Research ‐ papers, conferences and grants, The NSF proposal process for CAREER and other programs, Teaching ‐ Best practices, Special Issues, University programs in EDA industries, and a “Speed Networking” lunch event.
Important Dates:
Registration deadline : April 15, 2016
Award notification : April 23, 2016
Travel Grant Awards: The workshop is targetted for postdocs and senior PhD students (close to graduation), and junior faculty with research expertise in EDA. There is a limited budget for travel support for attendees and hence, award funding decisions will be made by organizing committee of the workshop.
In order to apply for travel grant, please provide your cv and one page summary of your research statement in EDA. Email your materials in pdf to eli@ics.uci.edu and jinjun@us.ibm.com. Please name the subject of the email as "DAC'16 Young Faculty Workshop Travel Support Application".
Sponsors: DAC, ACM/Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA), IEEE/ Council on EDA (CEDA), Cadence, and the National Science Foundation.
Workshop Overview:
Similar to previous events, the event will be organized into various sessions, with each session led by one or two senior faculty, researchers, or representatives from funding agencies and EDA industry. Topics to be covered include establishing a research career, the art of teaching an EDA course, seeking tenure, balancing career and life components, and diversity in academia.
Speed Networking: DAC Young Faculty workshop will emphasize the networking/mentoring aspect through explicit meetings between speakers/mentors and the attendees during a 1.5 hour lunch. This will be in the form of a “speed networking” event. Speed networking is similar to “speed dating” in organization but is different in its goals. While speed dating has the goal of limiting the choice of potential partners, speed networking is about broadening the number of people who you know and who know you.
Current plans call for each attendee to bring a two page resume (in NSF format) and a set of not more than three power‐point slides summarizing their research. Each speaker/mentor will be asked to attend the lunch event and meet sequentially with about 15 attendees for five minutes each. This will let each attendee meet with three speakers/mentors over a 75 minute program. This structured event will strongly encourage aspiring and young faculty to meet and discuss their research ideas with senior practitioners in their field, talk about their research interests, get advice, and perhaps initiate a longer term mentoring relationship.
The workshop program provides the tentative schedule of the talks and list of invited speakers for this event. Hope you enjoy the event.
Organzing Committee:
Jinjun Xiong, IBM Watson Research center, USA
Eli Bozorgzadeh, UC Irvine, USA (eli@ics.uci.edu)
Soha Hassoun, Tufts University, USA
(In memory) Steven Levitan, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA*
Patrick Haspel - Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Michael Huebner - Ruhr Univ. Bochum
* Late Steven Levitan had a crucial role in organzing this workshop and he is one of the founders of this workshop. He will be dearly missed in this event.