Nomination for ACM/IEEE William J.
McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award
ACM/IEEE International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD),
October 2025
TMLR J2C Certification (for
research on extreme risk mitigation in
reinforcement learning)
Transactions on Machine
Learning Research (TMLR), October 2025
Nomination for ACM/IEEE William J.
McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award
ACM/IEEE International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD),
October 2024
IEEE ASAP Best Paper Award
(sole best paper award for ASAP’21)
The 32nd IEEE
International Conference on
Application-specific Systems,
Architectures and Processors (ASAP’21),
2021
Neuromorphic Engineering
Editor’s Pick 2021
Frontiers in
Neuroscience
IEEE ICCD Best Paper
Award (Processor
Architecture Track)
IEEE
International Conference on
Computer Design (ICCD), 2020
ICCAD Ten Year
Retrospective Most
Influential Paper Award
ACM/IEEE
International Conference on
Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD),
2019
(This
award is given to the paper
judged to be most influential
on research and industrial
practice in computer-aided
design
of integrated circuits over
the ten years since its
original appearance at ICCAD)
Eugene E. Webb
Faculty Fellow
College
of Engineering, Texas
A&M University,
2018-2019
Nomination for
ACM/IEEE William J.
McCalla ICCAD Best Paper
Award
ACM/IEEE International
Conference on
Computer-Aided Design
(ICCAD), November 2018
DAC Best Paper
Award
53rd ACM/IEEE Design
Automation Conference
(DAC), June 2016
(Only
three other individuals
in the 54-year history
of DAC have been
recognized with four
best paper awards)
IEEE ISCAS
Honorary Mention
Best Paper Award
The Neural Systems and
Applications Technical
Committee of IEEE
Circuits and Systems
(CAS) Society, May
2016
Fellow of
the IEEE, Elected
in Nov. 2015
William
and Montine P.
Head Fellow
College of
Engineering,
Texas A&M
University,
2013-2014
DAC
Best Paper Hat
Trick Award
50th ACM/IEEE
Design
Automation
Conference
(DAC), June
2013
(for receiving
the
prestigious
DAC Best Paper
Award three
times)
DAC
Prolific Author
Award
50th ACM/IEEE
Design Automation
Conference (DAC),
June 2013
DAC
Top 10 Author
in Fifth
Decade
50th ACM/IEEE
Design
Automation
Conference
(DAC), June 2013
ACM/IEEE
William J.
McCalla ICCAD
Best Paper
Award
ACM/IEEE
International
Conference on
Computer-Aided
Design
(ICCAD),
November 2012
TEES
Fellow Award
College of
Engineering,
Texas A&M
University,
2011-2012
DAC
Best Paper
Award
48th ACM/IEEE
Design
Automation
Conference
(DAC), June
2011
Nomination
for IEEE
Donald O.
Pederson Best
Paper Award
IEEE
Transactions
on
Computer-Aided
Design of
Integrated
Circuits and
Systems
(TCAD),
September 2010
Best
in Session
Award
Semiconductor
Research
Corporation
Techcon
Conference,
September 2009
NSF
CAREER Award
National
Science
Foundation,
2008
Two
Nominations
for ACM/IEEE
William J.
McCalla ICCAD
Best Paper
Award
ACM/IEEE
International
Conference on
Computer-Aided
Design
(ICCAD),
November 2008
Outstanding
Professor
Award
Department of
ECE, Texas
A&M
University,
December 2008
DAC
Best Paper
Award
45th IEEE/ACM
Design
Automation
Conference
(DAC), June
2008
MARCO
Inventor
Recognition
Award
Microelectronics
Advanced
Research
Corporation
(MARCO), 2007
MARCO
Inventor
Recognition
Award
Microelectronics
Advanced
Research
Corporation
(MARCO),
January 2006
SRC
Inventor
Recognition
Award
Semiconductor
Research
Corporation
(SRC),
November 2004
DAC
Best Paper
Award
40th ACM/IEEE
Design
Automation
Conference
(DAC), June
2003
SRC
Inventor
Recognition
Award
Semiconductor
Research
Corporation
(SRC), January
2001