IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Winter 2015 - 44

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CEDA Currents

The following is reprinted from CEDA
Currents, November 2014 issue, a publication of the IEEE Council on Electronic
Design Automation (CEDA). Please send
contributions to Jose L. Ayala (jayala@
fdi.ucm.es) or Rajesh Gupta.

CEDA Early Career Award
at ICCAD 2014
The IEEE CEDA Early Career Award
honors an individual who has made
innovative and substantial technical contributions to the area of electronic design automation (EDA) in
the early stages of his or her career.
The winner of this year's award,
presented at the 2014 International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), is Shobha Vasudevan
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2014.2369342
Date of publication: 11 February 2015

(University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign) for outstanding contributions to design verification, including
automatic invariant generation, coverage analysis, timing verification, and
analog verification.

Winner of 2014 Phil Kaufman Award
Lucio Lanza (managing director of
Lanza Tech Ventures) has been selected by the EDA Consortium (EDAC)
and CEDA as the recipient of the 2014
Phil Kaufman Award for his substantial impact on EDA through his strategic and financial assistance to innovative EDA companies.

EDA and IP startups have always
been a key source of technology innovation. (Even today's larger EDA and
IP companies were startups at one
point.) Over the past two decades,
Lanza has helped guide numerous
startups as they have developed the
innovative technologies needed to
keep the industry moving forward.
His continuing strong support of the
industry has included valuable business and technical mentoring based on
his years of experience in the EDA and
semiconductor industries, as well as
financial backing in many cases.
Lanza received his doctorate in electronic engineering from Politecnico di
Milano. He spent more than 20 years in
industry, including Olivetti, Intel, and
Daisy Systems, before joining the ranks
of venture capitalists in 1990 at U.S.
venture partners. In 2001, he founded
Lanza Tech Ventures, an early-stage
venture capital and investment firm.
In addition to his industry and
financial experience, Lanza served as
a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2006. He
has also been a regular contributor to
major industry conferences, including

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shobha Vasudevan, the winner of this year's ieee CeDA early Career Award, which was presented at the 2014 international Conference on Computer-Aided Design (iCCAD) in november. Read more about iCCAD 2014 awards and get keynote slide decks at http://iccad.com/.

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