Jason Cong

Who is Jason Cong?

Jason Cong received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking

University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science

from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990,

respectively. Currently, he is a Professor and Co-Director of the VLSI

CAD Laboratory in the Computer Science Department of University of

California, Los Angeles.

His research interests include synthesis and layout of VLSI

circuits, highly scalable VLSI design algorithms and tools, design and

synthesis of programmable circuits and systems, and system-on-a-chip

designs. He has published over 180 research papers and led over 30

research projects supported by DARPA, NSF, SRC, and a number of

industrial sponsors in these areas. He served as the General Chair of

the 1993 ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop, the Program Chair and

General Chair of the 1997 and 1998 Int'l Symp. on FPGAs, respectively,

Program Co-Chair of the 1999 Int'l Symp. on Low-Power Electronics and

Designs, Program Co-Chair of ASPDAC'2003, and on program committees of

many major conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, and ISCAS. He is an

Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Design Automation of Electronic

Systems.

Dr. Cong served on the Technical Advisory Board of a number of

EDA and silicon IP companies, including Atrenta, eASIC, Get2Chip, Magma

Design Automation, and Ultima Interconnect Technologies. He was the

founder and president of Aplus Design Technologies, Inc., until it was

acquired by Magma Design Automation in 2003, where he serves as the

Chief Technologist for structured and programmable solutions. He was

appointed as a Guest Professor of Peking University since 2000. He

serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems

Society since 2001.

Dr. Cong received the Best Graduate Award from the Peking

University in 1985, and the Ross J. Martin Award for Excellence in

Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.

He received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993, the Northrop

Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award from UCLA in 1993, the IEEE

Trans. on CAD Best Paper Award in 1995, the ACM/SIGDA Meritorious

Service Award in 1998, the SRC Inventor Recognition Award and the SRC

Technical Excellence Award in 2000. He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in

2000.