2024 Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony & Banquet
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Jason Cong is the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence Professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department, and a former department chair, with joint appointment from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is the director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) and the director of VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory. Dr. Cong’s research interests include novel architectures and compilation for customizable computing, synthesis of VLSI circuits and systems, and quantum computing.
He has over 500 publications in these areas, including 18 best paper awards, and four papers in the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame. He and his former students co-founded AutoESL, which developed the most widely used high-level synthesis tool for FPGAs. The tool was renamed to Vivado HLS and Vitis HLS after Xilinx’s acquisition. Dr. Cong is member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Research Award, the EDAA Achievement Award, and the ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award, and he received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal for “fundamental contributions to electronic design automation and FPGA design methods.”
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Peking University in Beijing, China, in 1985, and his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively.