Yao-Wen Chang
Yao-Wen Chang received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information
Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1988, and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University
of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
He is an IEEE Fellow. Currently, he is Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and the Graduate Institute
of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
His current research interest lies in electronic design automation,
with an emphasis on physical design for nanometer IC's
and design for manufacturability.
He has co-edited one textbook on Electronic Design Automation (934 pages; Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2009) and co-authored one book on routing (Springer, 2007) and over 230 ACM/IEEE conference/journal papers in these areas, including highly cited works on floorplanning, placement, routing, design for manufacturability, and FPGA. His NTUplace3 placer was the core engine of the popular Digital Custom Placer of SpringSoft, acquired by the #1 EDA vendor, Synopsys, in 2012. He was ranked #1 worldwide among 40K+ researchers by the Microsoft Academic Search Database for Recent Five-Year Citations in the Hardware and Architecture Domain during November 2011 -- March 2012.
Dr. Chang received four awards at the 50th ACM/IEEE DAC in 2013 for the 1st Most Papers in the 5th Decade (34 DAC papers in the 5th decade; #1 worldwide), Most Prolific Author (at least 6 papers) in a Single Year (2012, 2013), DAC Prolific Author Award (40 Club), one of the Longest Publication Streaks (15 years from 1999 to 2013).
Dr. Chang is a 1st-place winner of five recent major ACM/IEEE EDA contests,
including the 2013 IEEE CAD Contest @ ICCAD (Legalization and Detailed Placement),
the 2012 ACM/IEEE DAC Routability-Driven Placement Contest,
the 2012 ACM ISPD Discrete Gate Sizing Contest,
the 2011 IEEE CEDA PATOS Timing Analysis Contest,
and the 2009 ACM ISPD Clock Network Synthesis Contest.
He has also received ten other top-3 contest awards during the past decade.
He is a recipient of six Best Paper Awards (2010 and 1995 IEEE ICCD, etc.) and the 2007 IEEE/ACM ICCAD Professor Margarida Jacome Memorial Award. He has received 22 Best Paper Award Nominations from top international conferences, including DAC (5 times), ICCAD (4 times), and ISPD (5 times) since 2000. He has received many research awards, such as the 2007, 2010, and 2013 Distinguished Research Awards (highest honor), and the 2004 Dr. Wu Ta You Memorial Award, all from National Science Council of Taiwan, and the 2010, 2012, and 2013 IBM Faculty Awards, the 2009 Distinguished EE Professor from the CIEE, the 2004 MXIC Young Chair Professorship from the MXIC Corp, and distinguished teaching award (highest honor for top 1% teachers)/excellent teaching awards (eight times) from National Taiwan University.
Dr. Chang has served as an editor / associate editor of premier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) from 2008 to 2013, IEEE Design & Test of Computers since 2012, etc. He has served as the steering committee/general/program chairs of ISPD, and general/program chairs of ICCAD, and program chair of ASP-DAC and FPT, and on the IEEE CEDA and ICCAD Executive Committees, the ASP-DAC Steering Committee, and the technical program committees of all major EDA conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, ISPD, ASP-DAC, DATE, ICCD, GLSVLSI, VLSI-DAT, FPL, FPT, APCCAS, etc. He is currently the IEEE CEDA Vice President of Technical Activities. He has served as the chair of the EDA Consortium of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan and an independent board director of Genesys Logic, Inc, a technical consultant of MediaTek Inc., RealTek Semiconductor Corp., and Faraday Technology Inc., and a member of the Board Governors of the Taiwan IC Design Society, a Review Committee Member of the National Science Council, and a Principal Reviewer of the SBIR projects of the Ministry of Economics Affairs, Taiwan.