Pan, David Z.

Biography:

David Z. Pan received his Ph.D. degree (with honor) in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000. Prior to joining the UT faculty, he spent three years as a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he contributed to various key aspects of Placement Driven Synthesis (PDS), IBM's flagship design closure tool, which won IBM Research 2002 Outstanding Accomplishment. His research interests include: nanometer physical CAD, design for manufacturability, variation-tolerant design optimization, novel circuitry and CAD for low power, vertical integration of architecture, circuit and technology. He has published over 70 technical papers and has 7 U.S. patents issued/pending.

He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II). He has served in the program committees of many major VLSI/CAD conferences, such as ICCAD, ASPDAC, DATE, ISPD, ISQED, and ISCAS. He is the Program and General Chair for ISPD 2007 and 2008, respectively. He also served as 2007 IEEE CANDE Workshop Chair, CAD track Co-Chair for ISCAS 2006/2007. He is a member in the US Design Technology Working Group of International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS). While at IBM, he was an industrial mentor to a number of SRC projects and to NYSTAR (New York State) Microelectronics Design Center (MDC).

Dr. Pan received the Best Paper in Session Award from SRC Techcon 1998, IBM Research Fellowship in 1999, Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Award in 2000, SRC Inventor Recognition Award in 2000, Outstanding Ph.D. Award from UCLA in 2001, IBM Research Bravo Award in 2003, IBM Faculty Award in 2004-2006, ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2005, Best Paper Award Nominations for DAC 2006 and ASPDAC 2006, NSF CAREER Award in 2007, ISDP 2007 Routing Contest Awards (2nd place for 3D and 3rd place for 2D), and ACM Recognition of Service Award in 2007.

Research Interests:

• Nanometer VLSI physical CAD
• Design for manufacturability
• Low power design and CAD
• CAD of emerging technologies
• Vertical integration of architecture, circuit and technology