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Service Awards
SIGDA has restructured its service awards, and will be giving two annual service awards.
- Distinguished Service Award: The SIGDA Distinguished Service Award is given to individuals who have dedicated many years of their career in extraordinary services to promoting, leading, or creating ACM/SIGDA programs or events.
- Meritorious Service Award: The SIGDA Meritorious Service Award is given to individuals who have performed professional services above and beyond traditional service to promoting, leading, or creating ACM/SIGDA programs or events.
At any given year, the number of Distinguished Service Award will be up to 2, and the number of Meritorious Service Award will be up to 4.
Nominations should consist of:
- Award type being nominated.
- Name, address, phone number and email of person making the nomination.
- Name, affiliation, address, email, and telephone number of the nominee for whom the award is recommended.
- A statement (between 200 and 500 words long) explaining why the nominee deserves the award. Note that the award is given for service that goes above and beyond traditional services.
- Up to 2 additional letters of support. Include the name, affiliation, email address, and telephone number of the letter writer(s). Supporters of multiple candidates are strongly encouraged to compare the candidates in their letters.
Note that the nominator and reference shall come from active SIGDA volunteers. Deadline of the nomination every year: March 1 (Except 2019, May 5)
Please send all your nomination materials as one pdf file to SIGDA-Award@acm.org before the deadline.
Distinguished Service Awards
| 2018 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Chuck Alpert, Cadence Design Systems "For significant contributions to DAC." Jörg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Michael ‘Mac’ McNamara, Adapt-IP Michelle Clancy, Cayenne Communication |
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| 2016 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Dr. Steven Levitan "In recognition of a lifetime of devoted service to ACM SIGDA and the Electronic Design Automation community." |
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| 2015 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Tatsuo Ohtsuki, Waseda University Hiroto Yasuura, Kyushu University Hidetoshi Onodera, Kyoto University "For their distinguished contributions to the Asia and South Pacific Design automation Conference (ASPBDAC) as well as their many years of dedicated service on the conference’s steering committee" Massoud Pedram, University of Southern California |
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| 2014 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Peter Marwedel, Technical University of Dortmund "For his muiltiple years of service starting and maintaining the DATE PhD Forum" |
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| 2012 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Joe Zamreno, Iowa State University Baris Taskin, Drexel University |
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| 2011 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Peter Feldman, IBM Radu Marculescu, CMU Qinru Qiu, Syracuse University Martin Wong, UIUC Qing Wu, Air Force Rome Labs |
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| 2010 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Alex K. Jones "For dedicated service to ACM/SIGDA and the Design Automation Conference as director of the University Booth" Matt Guthaus Diana Marculescu |
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| 2009 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Nikil Dutt "For contributions to ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation during the past fifteen years as a SIGDA officer, coordinator of the University Booth in its early years, and most recently, as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems" |
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| 2008 Distinguished Service Award | |
| SungKyu Lim "For his contributions to the DAC University Booth." |
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| 2007 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Richard Goering "For his contributions as EE Times Editorial Director for Design Automation for more than two decades." |
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| Gary Smith "For his contributions as Chief EDA Analyst at Gartner Dataquest for almost two decades." |
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| Daniel Gajski Mary Jane Irwin Donald E. Thomas Chuck Shaw "For outstanding contributions to the creation of the SIGDA/DAC University Booth, on the occasion of its 20th edition." |
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| Soha Hassoun Steven P. Levitan "For outstanding contributions to the creation of the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC on the occasion of its 10th edition." |
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| Richard Auletta "For over a decade of service to SIGDA as University Booth Coordinator, Secretary/Treasurer, and Executive Committee Member-at-Large." |
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| 2006 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Robert Walker "For dedicated service as SIGDA Chair (2001 - 2005), and over a decade of service to SIGDA, DAC and the EDA profession." |
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| 2005 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Mary Jane Irwin "For dedicated service as Editor in Chief of ACM Journal, TODAES (1998 - 2004), and many years of service to SIGDA, DAC, and the EDA profession." |
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| 2004 Distinguished Service Award | |
| James P. Cohoon "For exemplary service to SIGDA, to ACM, to DAC, and to the EDA profession as a whole" |
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| 2003 Distinguished Service Award | |
| James Plusquellic "For exemplary service to ACM/SIGDA and the Design Automation Conference as director of the University Booth program" |
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| 2002 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Steven P. Levitan "For over a decade of service to ACM/SIGDA and the EDA industry -- as DAC University Booth Coordinator, Student Design Contest organizer, founder and promoter of SIGDA's web server, and most recently, Chair of ACM/SIGDA from 1997 to 2001." |
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| Cheng-Kok Koh "For exemplary service to ACM/SIGDA and the EDA industry -- as Co-director of SIGDA's CDROM Project, as SIGDA's Travel Grants Coordinator, and as Editor of the SIGDA Newsletter." |
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| 2001 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Robert Grafton "For contributions to the EDA profession through his many years as the Program Director of NSF's Design, Tools, and Test Program of the computer, Information Sciences & Engineering Directorate. In this position, he provided supervision, mentorship, and guidance to several generation of EDA tool designers and builders funded by grants from the National Science Foundation." |
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| 2000 Distinguished Service Award | |
| Massoud Pedram "For his contributions in developing the SIGDA Multimedia Series and organizing the Young Student Support Program" |
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| Soha Hassoun "For developing the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum" |
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| 1999 Distinguished Service Award | |
| C.L. (Dave) Liu "For his work in founding our flagship journal ACM/TODAES" |
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| 1998 SIGDA Meritorious Service Awards | |
| Jason Cong Bryan Preas Kathy Preas Chong-Chian Koh Cheng-Kok Koh "For contributions in producing SIGDA CD ROM's - Archiving the knowledge of the Design Automation Community" |
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| 1997 SIGDA Meritorious Service Awards | |
| Robert Walker "For his hard work as Secretary/Treasurer and University Booth Coordinator" |
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| 1996 SIGDA Meritorious Service Awards | |
| Debbie Hall "For serving as ACM Program Director for SIGDA for the past 6 years" |
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| 1996 SIGDA Lifetime Achievement Award | |
| Paul Weil "For contributions to SIGDA for 13 years, most recently being in charge of Workshops." |
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| 1996 SIGDA Leadership Award | |
| Steve Levitan "For Newsletter and Electronic Publishing" |
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| 1995 SIGDA Outstanding Leadership Award | |
| Charlotte Acken "In recognition of her efforts in managing the high school scholarship program" |
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| 1994 SIGDA Outstanding Leadership Award | |
| Pat Hefferan "As Editor of the SIGDA Newsletter" |
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Technical Leadership Awards
| 2015 Service Award | |
| Laleh Behjat, University of Calgary "For service as chair of the SIGDA PhD forum at DAC" Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University Jeonghee Shin, Apple "For their service as co-chairs of the University Booth at DAC" |
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| 2013 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Jarrod Roy Sudeep Pasricha Sudarshan Banerjee Srinivas Katkoori "for running CADathlon" |
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| 2012 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Cheng Zhuo Steve Burns Amin Chirayu Andrey Ayupov Gustavo Wilke Mustafa Ozdal |
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| 2011 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Raju Balasuramanian Zhuo Li Frank Liu Natarajan Viswanathan |
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| 2010 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Cliff Sze "For contributions to the ISPD Physical Design contest, and promoting research in physical design." |
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| 2008 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Hai Zhou "For contributions to the SIGDA E-Newsletter (2005-2008)" |
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Jing Yang "For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2004-2008)" |
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| 2007 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Geert Janssen "For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon" |
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Tony Givargis "For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2005-2007)" |
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Gi-Joon Nam "For contributions to the Physical Design Contest at ISPD (2005-2007)" |
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| 2006 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Kartik Mohanram "For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD (2004-2005)" |
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Ray Hoare "For contributions to the SIGDA University Booth at DAC (2004-2006)" |
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Radu Marculescu "For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2004-2006)" |
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Frank Liu "For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (2005-2006)" |
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| 2005 Technical Leadership Award | |
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Florian Krohm "For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD" |
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R. Iris Bahar, Igor Markov "For contributions to the SIGDA E-Newsletter" |
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| 2004 Technical Leadership Award | |
| Robert Jones "For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC" |
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| 2003 Technical Leadership Award | |
| Diana Marculescu "For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC" |
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| 2002 Technical Leadership Award | |
| Geert Janssen "For contributions to the SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD" |
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| Pai Chou, Abe Elfadel, Olivier Coudert, Soha Hassoun "For contributions to the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC" |
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