Awards

PROFESSIONAL HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS

  • NSF Faculty Early Career Award, 2023
  • Best Paper Award Nomination at ASP-DAC, Jeju Island, Korea, Jan. 2018 (Topic-"Deep Learning Security", First author by Ph.D student-Qi Liu)
  • Best Paper Award Nomination at ICCAD, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2018 (Topic-"Deep Learning Security").
  • Best Paper Award Nomination at DATE, Dresden, Germany, Mar. 2016.
  • Best Paper Award Nomination at 51th DAC, San Francisco, CA, June 2014.
  • Visiting Faculty Research Program Fellowship, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, June 2017.
  • Dean’s Fellowship, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2015.
  • Best Ph.D. Forum Poster Presentation at DAC, San Francisco, CA, June 2015.
  • John A. Jurenko Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2013.
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Student Research Competition (SRC) Bronze medal, ICCAD, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2014.
  • 49th Design Automation Conference (DAC) A. Richard Newton Graduate Scholarship ($24,000), the only awardee for outstanding research in EDA Domain, San Francisco, CA, June 2012.
  • DAC Young Student Support Program Award, June 2012.