Jingsheng Jason Cong

University of California, Los Angeles

Computer Science Department

4731J Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095

Tel: (310) 206-2775

E-mail: cong@cs.ucla.edu

 

 

 

Education

·          Ph.D. in Computer Science:  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990

·          M.S. in Computer Science: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987

·          B.S. in Computer Science: Peking University, 1985

 

Professional Experience

1990–Present

University of California, Los Angeles, Computer Science Department

·          Chairman (2005 – present)

·          Professor  (1998 – present)

·          Associate Professor  (1994 – 1998)

·          Assistant Professor (1990 – 1994)

 

2006–Present: Chief Technology Advisor and Chairman of the Board, AutoESL Design Technologies

2003–Present: Chief Technology Advisor, Magma Design Automation

  1998–2003: Founder and President, Aplus Design Technologies, Inc.

                       (acquired by Magma Design Automation in June 2003) 

   1994 (summer): Visiting Faculty, Intel Corporation

1986–1990: Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Honors and Awards

·          Best Paper Award, 2008 International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

·          Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award (2006)

·          Outstanding Alumni Award of Peking University (2005)

·          Best Paper Award, ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (June 2005)

·          Best Paper Award, 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) (April 2005)

·          Best Paper Award, ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (January 2005)

·          Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2004-2005)

·          Recipient of Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2004)

·          Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Award (2000)

·          IEEE Fellow (2000)

·          Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award (2000)

·          Guest Professorship, Peking University (2000)

·          ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Award (1998)

·          ACM Recognition of Service Award (1997)

·          Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design from IEEE Circuits and System Society (1995)

·          National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1993)

·          Northrop Corporation Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award from UCLA (1993)

·          National Science Foundation Engineering Research Initiation Award (1991)

·          Ross J. Martin Award for Excellence in Research from University of Illinois (1989)

·          DEC Fellowship in Computer Science (1988)

·          Best Graduate Award from Peking University (1985)

 

Editorship

·          Editorial Board Member of Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation (2005 - present)

·          Advisory Board Member , IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2001-present),

·          Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (1995 – 2005)

·          Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (1999 – 2002)

·          Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Special Issues on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (1997 – 1998)

 

Services To Professional Conferences and Symposia (selected)

·          General Co-Chair (2005, 2007), ASICON

·          General Co-Chair (2005), Program Co-Chair (2003), Program Committee Member (2006), Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

·          Program Committee Member (1997-2001), Member of Strategy Committee (2005-2007), Design Automation Conference (DAC)

·          Program Committee Area Chair (1996), Program Committee Member & Session Chair (1993-1996, 2002),  IEEE International Conference on Computer – Aided Design (ICCAD).

·          Program Co-Chair for Tools and Methodology Track, 2003, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)

·          Program Committee Member (2005 – 2007), International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications.

·          General Chair (1998), Program Chair (1997), Publicity Chair (1996), Program Committee Member (1995 to 2007), ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGA)

·          Program Co-Chair (1999), Publication Chair (1998), Publicity Chair (1996), Program Committee Member (1994 – 2007), IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)

·          Program Committee Member (1998 – 2003), Steering Committee Member (2004-2006), International Symposium on Physical Design

·          General Chair (1993), Program Committee Member (1993, 1996), ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop  

 

Other Professional Services

·          Board of Governors, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2000 – 2004)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Kilopass Technology Inc. (2004 – 2005)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of eASIC Corporation (2001 – present)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Get2Chip, Inc. (2000 – 2003)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Atrenta, Inc. (2002 – 2003)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Ultima Interconnect Technologies, Inc. (1996 – 2000)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Magma Design Automation (1997 – 2001)

·          Member of Advisory Board of ACM SIGDA (1993 – 1999)

·          Consultant to Intel Corporation (1994 – 1998)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of DARPA MCM project at Mentor Graphics (1994 – 1996)

·          Member of Technical Advisory Board of Silicon Valley Research (1995 – 1996)

 

Graduated Students

PhD Graduates

1.        Eugene Ding (Ph.D. 1995), MTS, Bell Laboratories

2.        Patrick Madden (Ph.D. 1998), Associate Professor, State Univ. of New York at Binghamton

3.        Cheng-Kok Koh (Ph.D. 1998), Associate Professor, Purdue University

4.        Yeanyow Hwang (Ph.D. 1999), Senior Software Engineer, Synopsys

5.        Chang Wu (Ph.D. 1999), Senior Engineer, Magma Design Automation

6.        Lei He (Ph.D. 1999), Associate Professor, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

7.        Sung-Kyu Lim (Ph.D. 2000), Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

8.        Sarah Songjie Xu (Ph.D. 2000), Senior Manager, Magma Design Automation

9.        David Zhigang Pan (Ph.D. 2000), Assistant Professor, University of Austin, Texas

10.     Jie Fang (Ph.D. 2001), Senior Engineer, Broadcom Corporation

11.     Chin-Chih Chang (Ph.D. 2002), Member of Consulting Staff, Cadence

12.     Tianming (Tim) Kong (Ph.D. 2002), Senior Engineer, Magma Design Automation

13.     Xin Yuan (Ph.D. 2003), EDA Software Developer, IBM Corporation

14.     Michail Romesis (Ph.D. 2005), Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

15.     Michael Gang Chen (Ph.D. 2005), Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

16.     Ashok Jagannathan (Ph.D. 2005), Senior Platform Simulation Engineer, Intel Corporation

17.     Deming Chen (Ph. D. 2005), Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

18.     Kenton Sze, (Ph. D. 2006), Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

19.     Yan Zhang (Ph.D. 2006), Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

20.     Min Xie (Ph.D. 2006),  Sr. Member of Technical Staff, KBC

21.     Joey Yizhou Lin, (Ph.D. 2006), Member of Technical Staff, Magma Design Automation

22.     Yiping Fan, (Ph.D. 2006), Co-founder and Director of Engineering, AutoESL Design Technologies

23.     Zhiru Zhang (Ph.D. 2007), Co-founder and Director of Engineering, AutoESL Design Technologies

24.    Guoling Han (Ph.D. 2007), Sr. Engineer, AutoESL Design Technologies

 

 

MS Graduates

 

  1. M'lissa Smith (MS 1992)
  2. Antonios Papandreous (MS 1992)
  3. Huy Cao (MS 1993)
  4. Ka-Kei Kwok (MS 1994)
  5. Jenny Z. Li (MS 1994)
  6. Jeff Liao (MS 1995)
  7. John Peck (MS 1995)
  8. Sung Lim (MS 1997)
  9. David Zhigang Pan (MS 1998)
  10. Liding Sun (MS 1999)
  11. Michail Romesis (MS 2001)
  12. Michael (Gang) Chen (MS 2001)
  13. Deming Chen (MS 2001)
  14. Yizhou (Joey) Lin (MS 2002)
  15. Yiping Fan (MS 2003)
  16. Min Xie (MS 2003)
  17. Zhiru Zhang (MS 2003)
  18. Jie Wei (MS 2004)
  19. Guoling Han (MS, 2004)
  20. Wei Jiang (MS 2006)
  21. Kirill Minkovich (MS 2006)

 

 

Research Interests

 

Dr. Cong’s research interests include synthesis and layout of VLSI circuits, highly scalable VLSI design algorithms and tools, design and synthesis of programmable circuits and systems, computer architectures, and system-on-a-chip designs.  Currently, he is leading a research group of 10 to 12 Ph. D. students, several research staff members, and several M.S. students working in these areas. He has published over 250 research papers and led over 30 research projects funded by DARPA, NSF, SRC, and various industrial sponsors. A complete publications list is attached.

 

Patents

 

·         Jason Cong and David Z. Pan, U.S. Patent No. 6,408,427, Issued June 18, 2002, “Wire Width Planning and Performance Optimization for VLSI Interconnects”

·         Jason Cong and David Z. Pan, U.S. Patent No. 7,013,253, Issued March 14, 2006, “Method and Apparatus for Calculation of Crosstalk Noise in Integrated Circuits”

 

Publications

 

  

Invited Talks and Tutorials