The Student Research Forum at the ASP-DAC is renovated from a traditional poster session hosted by ACM SIGDA for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their dissertation research with experts in system design and design automation community. Starting from 2015, the forum includes both Ph.D. and M.S. students, offering great opportunities for the students to establish contacts for their future career. In addition, the forum helps the companies and academic institutes to get an overview of the latest research and discover the extraordinary candidates for their employment.

SRF@ASP-DAC 2021 is held as a virtual forum for the first time due to COVID-19. The forum is composed of 28 excellent posters from Asia, Europe and North America and 2 industry talks. We will adopt Microsoft Teams as an integrated online platform of the forum. The following functions are provided in the integrated platform:

• • Sharing of posters and pre-recorded presentation videos
• • Text-based discussion
• • Video/audio-based interactive meeting and screen sharing

The forum welcomes all students, professors and industrial professionals from the relevant research community.

• ASP-DAC 2021 Student Research Forum Best Poster Award - Research

Topic: STICKER-T: An Energy Efficient Neural Network Processor Using Block-Circulant Algorithm and Unified Frequency-Domain Acceleration

Presenters: Jinshan Yue and Yongpan Liu, Tsinghua University, China

• ASP-DAC 2021 Student Research Forum Best Poster Award – Presentation

Topic: Pearl: Performance-Aware Wear Leveling for Non-volatile FPGAs

Presenters: Hao Zhang and Mengying Zhao, Shandong University, China

• ASP-DAC 2021 Student Research Forum Best Poster Award – Most Popular

Topic: Efficient Post-Silicon Debug Framework for Network-on-Chip

Presenters: Sidhartha Sankar Rout and Sujay Deb, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India

• Call for Participation

The online platform will be made accessible by all the forum attendees from January 10 to January 31, 2021. You can read the posters, watch the video and leave text messages in the “Posts” tab of each Channel. You can communicate with the student presenters by sending them text messages.

In addition to a poster, each student presenter has pre-recorded a short video in up to 2 minutes to briefly summarize the thesis and a long video in up to 20 minutes to elaborate it in detail. Participants could watch the short videos to get the main ideas and contributions efficiently while further watch the long videos to know more details if interested. The posters and videos are accessible from January 10 to January 31, 2021 (free registration is needed). 

There will be a two-hour online live session during 21:00-23:00, January 19, 2021 (JST). The time is selected to fit worldwide attendees including professors and students from Asia, Europe and North America. The student presenter of each poster will attend the whole two-hour live session. Attendees can join in a “Meeting” hosted by the corresponding presenter in each Channel for a real-time video/audio interaction. More details of the live session will be updated later.

The forum is free of charge, but registration is needed to join the Microsoft Teams-based online platform for security considerations.

Student Presenter Registration

Attendee Registration (including supervisors and co-authors of student presenters)

Your free registeration will be processed within 24 hours on or after January 10, 2021. Please login to Microsoft Teams and the online platform named "SRF@ASP-DAC 2021" will be shown in your Teams.

The live session will start at 21:00 January 19, 2021 Japan Standard Time (JST = UTC + 09)

• • 07:00 January 19, 2021 Eastern Standard Time (EST = UTC - 05)
• • 13:00 January 19, 2021 Central European Time (CET = UTC + 01)
• • 20:00 January 19, 2021 China Standard Time (CST = UTC + 08)

Start Time (in Japan)	Theme	Channel
21:00	Opening Session	Zoom (Click to join, password will be sent by email)
21:05	Industry Talk by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Topic: Cadence Design Systems - Cultivating the next generation of Innovators Presenter: Ms. Tal Zigman (Academic Network Director, Cadence)
21:20	Industry Talk by Synopsys, Inc. Topic: Co-innovation between Synopsys and University Partners (in pre-recorded video) Presenter: Yung Wuu (VP of Engineering, Digital Design Group, Synopsys)
21:35	Parallel Discussion of Posters	Microsoft Teams (Respective Channels)
	Voting for awards ends at 22:30 sharp	By email invitation
22:45	Award Ceremony and Closing	Zoom (Click to join, password will be sent by email)

• Next Generation Design For Testability, Debug and Reliability Using Formal Techniques
  Poster ID: 1
  Presenter: Sebastian Huhn
  Affiliation: University of Bremen
• Design Space Exploration of Energy-Efficient Approximate Arithmetic Units for Error-Tolerant Applications
  Poster ID: 2
  Presenter: Haroon Waris
  Affiliation: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Efficient Post-Silicon Debug Framework for Network-on-Chip
  Poster ID: 3
  Presenter: Sidhartha Sankar Rout
  Affiliation: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
• Design Automation for Field-coupled Nanotechnologies
  Poster ID: 5
  Presenter: Marcel Walter
  Affiliation: University of Bremen
• Design and Analysis for Embedded Software with Limited Resources
  Poster ID: 6
  Presenter: Wei Zhang
  Affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Enabling Low-Cost, High-Performance, Reliable Memory Extension System
  Poster ID: 7
  Presenter: Chun-Feng Wu
  Affiliation: National Taiwan University
• Reliable and Efficient Pre-Characterizing Techniques for Random Walk Based Capacitance Extraction
  Poster ID: 8
  Presenter: Ming Yang
  Affiliation: Tsinghua University
• Irregular Deep Data Embedding
  Poster ID: 9
  Presenter: Wei Li
  Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Proving Correctness of Industrial Multipliers using Symbolic Computer Algebra
  Poster ID: 10
  Presenter: Alireza Mahzoon
  Affiliation: University of Bremen
• An Ultra-Low Energy Consumption Scheme for System Suspend to RAM
  Poster ID: 11
  Presenter: Wang Weilan
  Affiliation: East China Normal University
• A CNN Accelerator using Importance Map Guided Adaptive Activation Sparsification
  Poster ID: 12
  Presenter: Wenyu Sun
  Affiliation: Tsinghua University
• Ant Colony Optimization-Based Thermal-Aware Adaptive Routing Mechanism for Optical NoCs
  Poster ID: 13
  Presenter: Wang Jing
  Affiliation: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Real-Time Calculus: Revisit and Improvement
  Poster ID: 14
  Presenter: Yue Tang
  Affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• STICKER-T: An Energy Efficient Neural Network Processor Using Block-Circulant Algorithm and Unified Frequency-Domain Acceleration
  Poster ID: 15
  Presenter: Jinshan Yue
  Affiliation: Tsinghua University
• Fast and Lightweight Networks for Large-scale Computer Vision Applications on Terminal Devices
  Poster ID: 17
  Presenter: Yuan Cheng
  Affiliation: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Pearl: Performance-Aware Wear Leveling for Non-volatile FPGAs
  Poster ID: 20
  Presenter: Hao Zhang
  Affiliation: Shandong University
• Reliability-Aware Design of CNFET Circuits and Stochastic Circuits as Emerging Technologies in Post-Moore Era
  Poster ID: 21
  Presenter: Chen Wang
  Affiliation: Shanghai Jiao Tong university
• FPGA-accelerated Automatic Tomography Alignment
  Poster ID: 22
  Presenter: Shuang Wen
  Affiliation: Peking University
• Energy-Efficient Arithmetic Coding Scheme for Non-Volatile Memory Systems
  Poster ID: 23
  Presenter: Yi-Shen Chen
  Affiliation: National Taiwan University
• Robust and Energy-Efficient Deep Learning Systems
  Poster ID: 24
  Presenter: Muhammad Abdullah Hanif
  Affiliation: Vienna University of Technology
• Cross-Layer Optimizations for Resilient and Energy-Efficient Machine Learning Architectures
  Poster ID: 25
  Presenter: Alberto Marchisio
  Affiliation: Technische Universität Wien
• Hardware and Software Techniques for Securing Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
  Poster ID: 26
  Presenter: Faiq Khalid
  Affiliation: Technische Universität Wien
• Managing Thermal Integrity in Monolithic 3D Systems
  Poster ID: 27
  Presenter: Prachi Shukla
  Affiliation: Boston University
• Power Side-Channel Security Evaluation and Application in Cryptographic Hardware Design
  Poster ID: 28
  Presenter: Lu Zhang
  Affiliation: Northwestern Polytechnical University
• LongLiveNoC: Wear Levelling, Write Reduction and Selective VC allocation for Long lasting Dark Silicon aware NoC Interconnects
  Poster ID: 29
  Presenter: Khushboo Rani
  Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
• Security Aware Architectural Exploration of Public Key Algorithm
  Poster ID: 30
  Presenter: Debapriya Basu Roy
  Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

• GWalloc: A Self-Adaptive Generational Wear-Aware Allocator for Non-Volatile Main Memory
  Poster ID: 4
  Presenter: Ziwei Wang
  Affiliation: Wuhan University
• Towards the Deterministic Modeling of DNN Inference Time on GPU
  Poster ID: 19
  Presenter: Weiguang Pang
  Affiliation: Northeastern University

• Call for Submission

The Student Research Forum at the ASP-DAC is renovated from a traditional poster session hosted by ACM SIGDA for PhD students to present and discuss their dissertations with experts in the design automation community. Starting from 2015, the forum includes both PhD and MS students, offering great opportunity for the students to establish contacts for their future career. In addition, the forum helps the companies and academic institutes to get an overview of the latest research and discover the extraordinary candidates for their employment.

Considering ASP-DAC 2021 is going virtual due to COVID-19, SRF@ASP-DAC 2021 will be held as a virtual forum. The forum welcomes all students, professors and industrial professionals from the relevant research community. To encourage PhD students participating in important EDA events, this year, the forum will offer a free registration to the ASP-DAC 2021 conference at the student rate for each accepted submission.

Eligibility

• • Students must be within 1 year (M.S.) or 2 years (Ph.D.) of dissertation completion or have completed their dissertation during the last 12 months.
• • Dissertation topic must be relevant to the ASP-DAC community.
• • Previous ASP-DAC forum presenters are not eligible.
• • Students who have presented previously at DAC/DATE PhD forums are eligible.
• • Only students with at least one published or accepted conference, symposium or journal “full” paper are eligible for awards.
• • Students must attend the forum virtually to present the poster in person without substitute presentations, or else please contact the SRF Chair in advance.

Submission Requirements

A two-page PDF abstract of the dissertation (in two-column format, using 10pt. fonts and single-spaced lines), including name, institution, adviser, contact information, estimated (or actual) graduation date, whether the work has been presented at DAC PhD Forum or DATE PhD Forum, as well as figures and bibliography (if applicable). The two-page limit on the abstract will be strictly enforced: any material beyond the second page will be ignored by the reviewers. Each accepted abstract has to prepare a poster and a short video presentation, and the student has to attend the forum virtually for real-time interactions.

To be considered for awards, a student must explicitly indicate, in the title of the two-page abstract, the venues for which the work was published or accepted, and a list of all papers authored or co-authored by the student should be included in the bibliography of the two-page abstract. The papers must be related to the dissertation topic. Those on topics unrelated to the dissertation abstract will not be considered.

Submission website: EasyChair

For queries, please send an e-mail to Prof. Weichen Liu (liu [at] ntu.edu.sg). Please include "SRF@ASP-DAC 2021" in the subject of your email.

• Student Presenter Registration

• Attendee Registration

• SRF Page @ ASP-DAC 2021 Website

• Download Microsoft Teams

• Submission Deadline: November 30, 2020 (firm)
• Date of Acceptance Notification: December 14, 2020
• Poster and Video Submission Deadline: January 5, 2021
• Virtual Live Session: January 19, 2021
• Virtual Forum: January 10 to 31, 2021

Chair:

Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Co-Chairs:

Lei Jiang, Indiana University Bloomington, US

Yaoyao Ye, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Secretariat:

Jun Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Hui Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Shien Zhu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Technical Committee:

Hiromitsu Awano, Kyoto University, Japan

Donkyu Baek, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Ateet Bhalla, Independent Technology Consultant, India

Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Wanli Chang, University of York, UK

Xianzhang Chen, Chongqing University, China

Yi-Jung Chen, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

Xiang Chen, George Mason University, US

Haibao Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore Univ. of Technology and Design, Singapore

Hsiang-Yun Cheng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Luan Huu Kinh Duong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Shao-Yun Fang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, US

Chien-Chung Ho, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Weiwen Jiang, University of Notre Dame, US

Yukihide Kohira, The University of Aizu, Japan

Hyung-Gyu Lee, Daegu University, Korea

Sicheng Li, Hewlett Packard Labs, US

Yongfu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Qingan Li, Wuhan University, China

Chun-Han Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Ren-Shuo Liu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Jaehyun Park, University of Ulsan, Korea

Muhammad Shafique, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

Liang Shi, East China Normal University, China

Donghwa Shin, Soongsil University, Korea

Masashi Tawada, Waseda University, Japan

Hoeseok Yang, Ajou University, Korea

Ming-Chang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Lei Yang, University of New Mexico, US

Bei Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Qian Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, US

ASP-DAC liaison:

Masashi Tawada, Waseda University, Japan

Yukio Mitsuyama, Kochi University of Technology, Japan