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Jason Cong received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor and Co-Director of the VLSI CAD Laboratory in the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles.
His research interests include synthesis and layout of VLSI circuits, highly scalable VLSI design algorithms and tools, design and synthesis of programmable circuits and systems, and system-on-a-chip designs. He has published over 180 research papers and led over 30 research projects supported by DARPA, NSF, SRC, and a number of industrial sponsors in these areas. He served as the General Chair of the 1993 ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop, the Program Chair and General Chair of the 1997 and 1998 Int'l Symp. on FPGAs, respectively, Program Co-Chair of the 1999 Int'l Symp. on Low-Power Electronics and Designs, Program Co-Chair of ASPDAC'2003, and on program committees of many major conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, and ISCAS. He is an Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.
Dr. Cong served on the Technical Advisory Board of a number of EDA and silicon IP companies, including Atrenta, eASIC, Get2Chip, Magma Design Automation, and Ultima Interconnect Technologies. He was the founder and president of Aplus Design Technologies, Inc., until it was acquired by Magma Design Automation in 2003, where he serves as the Chief Technologist for structured and programmable solutions. He was appointed as a Guest Professor of Peking University since 2000. He serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society since 2001.
Dr. Cong received the Best Graduate Award from the Peking University in 1985, and the Ross J. Martin Award for Excellence in Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993, the Northrop Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award from UCLA in 1993, the IEEE Trans. on CAD Best Paper Award in 1995, the ACM/SIGDA Meritorious Service Award in 1998, the SRC Inventor Recognition Award and the SRC Technical Excellence Award in 2000. He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in 2000. | 