University of California, Los Angeles
E-mail: cong@cs.ucla.edu
· 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
1990--Present
University of California, Los Angeles, Computer Science Department
· Chairman (2005 -- present)
· Professor (July 1998 -- present)
· Associate Professor (July 1994 -- June 1998)
· Assistant Professor (July 1990 -- June 1994)
2003--Present: Chief Technology Advisor, Magma Design Automation
2006--Present: Chief Technology Advisor and Chairman of the Board, AutoESL Design Technologies
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
· 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) (January 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)
· 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), 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 -- 2006), 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 -- 2006), International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
· 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 -- 2006), 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 (ISPD)
· General Chair (1993), Program Committee Member (1993, 1996), ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop
· 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)