Rutenbar named 2008 Fellow of the ACM

January 15, 2009

The Association for Computing Machinery has recognized Rob A. Rutenbar as one of 44 new ACM Fellows. Rutenbar, who holds the Stephen J. Jatras (E'47) Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon was cited for his contributions to computer-aided design tools for mixed-signal integrated circuits.

“These men and women are the inventors of technology that impact the way people live and work throughout the world,” ACM President Dame Wendy Hall said of the 44 Fellows. “Their selection as 2008 ACM Fellows offers us an opportunity to recognize their dedicated leadership in this dynamic field, and to honor their contributions to solving complex problems, expanding the impact of technology, and advancing the quality of life for people everywhere.”

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Rutenbar gives lunch keynote at 2008 CANDE Workshop

November 7, 2009

Rob Rutenbar gave the invited lunch keynote at the 2008 CANDE Workshop held in Pacifica CA. The talk, "From Finance to Flip Flops: Using the Mathematics of Money and Risk to Understand the Statistics of Nanoscale Circuits" focused on new methods for modeling random effects in nanoscale designs.

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Rutenbar featured in University of Michigan recruiting video

October 9, 2008

Rob Rutenbar was featured in a UM recruiting video for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (of which he is a 1986 alum). The video was shot as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the CSE department in April 2008 (see news item below).

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Rutenbar gives distinguished seminar at Cadence

October 2, 2008

Rob Rutenbar gave was invited distinguished seminar speaker at the Cadence San Jose main office, on the topic "From FInance to Flip Flops: Using the Mathematics of Money and Risk to Understand the Statistics of Nanoscale Circuits"

Rutenbar wins Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from Wayne State

September 27, 2008 - Wayne State

Rob Rutenbar was a 2008 winner of the Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from his alma mater, Wayne State University. This "Hall of Fame" award is given to alumni who have made significant engineering accomplishments over their post-WSU careers.

CMU Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI) celebrates 25th anniversary

September 5 2008 CSSI

The CMU Center for Silicon System Implementation celebrated 25 years of continued excellence this September, with a large anniversary reception hosting many former students and current colleagues.

Group Alumnus John Cohn Gives ISCAS'08 Keynote

May 21, 2008

Group alumnus John Cohn gave the keynote talk at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'08) held May 18-21 in Seattle, Washington. His keynote, "Kids these days--How we can inspire the next generation of Engineers and Scientists" highlighted his passionate efforts over the past 15 years to make engineering fun for nearly 50,000 kids. Video of the talk can be found here.

Cohn is currently Chief Scientist of Design Automation in the IBM Systems and Technology Group in Burlington, Vermont, and also an IBM Fellow. He earned his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon with an IBM Resident Study Fellowship in 1991.

Amith Singhee wins ECE Best Thesis Award

May 19, 2008

Amith Singhee was a co-winner of the 2008 A.G. Milnes Award for best Ph.D. thesis at the ECE graduation ceremonies this weekend. The Milnes award honors the graduating ECE doctoral student "whose thesis work is judged to be of the highest quality and has had a significant impact in the field". The award is named is honor of Emeritus ECE faculty member Arthur Milnes, who presented the award at the ceremony.

Group members Lin, Singhal and Singhee receive CMU diplomas

May 19,2008

Edward C. Lin, Sonia Singhal and Amith Singhee received their diplomas at the CMU ECE graduation ceremonies this weekend. Ed (PhD degree in ECE) is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the In Silico Vox group. Amith (PhD degree in ECE) is now at IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs in New York. Sonia (MS in ECE) is now with Synopsys in California.

Rutenbar speaks at Michigan 50-Year Anniversary

May 9, 2008

ECE faculty Rob A. Rutenbar and Daniel P. Sieworek, along with former ECE faculty member John P. Shen, were featured speakers at the UM CSE@50 Symposium, which celebrated the 50 year anniversary of the founding of the University of Michigan Computer Science department. All three are alumni of the University of Michigan. Rutenbar spoke about synergies between computer science and custom integrated circuits. Siewiorek spoke about experiences ranging from parallel computing to wearable computing. Shen spoke on new opportunities in mobile computing. (Read more...)

Rutenbar gives invited keynote at SOC'07

November 8, 2007

Rob Rutenbar gave an invited keynote at the 5th International System On Chip (SOC) COnference in Newport Beach, CA on Nov 8.  His talk,  "From Wall Street to Silicon Valley:  Using the Mathematics of Money and Risk for Fast Statistical IC Design," showed methods from the computational finance community can be used to accelerate statistical analysis by orders of magnitude for challenging circuits in the nanoscale regime. [pdf]

Rutenbar Speaks at Alma Mater

October 10, 2007

Professor Rob Rutenbar delivered the 2007 annual Forest Brammer Memorial Lecture at Wayne State University on October 3. The lecture series honors an inspirational former teacher in Wayne State's ECE Department, where Rutenbar received his undergraduate degree in 1978. Rutenbar spoke on his current work on speech recognition in silicon. [pdf]

Rutenbar (right) shakes hands with Wayne State ECE Dept Head Yang Zhao.

C2S2 Workshop on SRAM Design Held at MIT

Sept 28, 2007

A C2S2-sponsored workshop on issues in scaled SRAM design, organized by MIT Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan and CMU Prof. Rob Rutenbar attracted over 50 attendees to the meeting, held at MIT. Speakers from academia (UVa, Berkeley, CMU, Purdue and MIT) and industry (AMD, IBM, Intel, TI, and Xilinx) convened to share ideas about future SRAM architectures that must work at the most aggressively scaled CMOS nodes.

Rutenbar gives invited keynote at  2007 STARC Forum in Japan

July 6 2007

Rob Rutenbar gave an invited keynote at the 2007 Annual STARC Forum in Yokohama, Japan on July 6.  STARC plays the same role in Japan as does the Semiconductor Research Corporation in the US, i.e., they fund and coordinate research activities among Japanese universities.  Rutenbar talked about speech recognition in silicon research at CMU.    Of note is the fact that this was first ever talk given in English at this long-established meeting forum. [pdf]

James D. Ma Wins Chinese Government Award

May 29, 2007

Group alumnus James Ma won the 2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. Ma was the only student chosen from Carnegie Mellon University. Awardees are selected based on academic and research achievements, after at least three rounds of judging by invited experts from their fields both in China and their host countries.

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Rutenbar gives keynote talk at ASPDAC07

January 9, 2007

Rob Rutenbar gave they keynote talk at the 2007 Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) in Yokohama, Japan. His talk, entitled "Next-Generation Design and EDA Challenges: Small Physics, Big Systems, Tall Toolchains" focused on challenges in devices, circuits, systems, and tools, as we continue to scale CMOS. ... read more

Rob Rutenbar (left) with ASPDAC Chair
Hidetoshi Onodera of the University of Kyoto

Rutenbar and Tiwary Nominated for DAC Best Paper Award

June 27, 2005

Rob A. Rutenbar and his Ph.D. student Saurabh Tiwary were nominated for Best Paper at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) held from June 13-17. Their paper, "Scalable Trajectory Methods for On-Demand Macromodel Extraction," allows efficient, accurate simulation models of complex analog circuits to be constructed automatically during circuit simulation. DAC 2005 had approximately 6000 attendees, and is one of the most prestigious conferences in the area of design tools for integrated circuits. PDF

Saurabh Tiwary

• My students Claire Fang and Smriti Gupta and win Best Paper Awards at SRC TECHCON’03 ... read more
   
• My student Claire Fang nominated for Best Paper Award at DAC03.