Duo Ding, a student of Professor David Pan, won the Best Student Paper Award at the ICICDT 2009 for his paper titled “Machine Learning Based Lithographic Hotspot Detection with Critical Feature Extraction and Classification”.
Professor Ranjit Gharpurey gives a tutorial at ISCCC 2009 on Managing Linearity
in Radio Front-Ends. ISCCC is the leading IC design conference. http://www.miracd.com/isscc2009/WebAp/sunday.htm
Professor Michael Orshansky gives a tutorial on statistical analysis and design methods at the Asia-South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2009) in Yokohama, Japahn (http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2009/tutorial/#tu3).