Dr. Jason Cong received the 2024 Phil Kaufman Award, the highest honor in Electronic System Design, on Nov. 6, 2024 at the Annual Phil Kaufman Award and Banquet in San Jose, CA, hosted by the ESD Alliance. The highlights of Dr. Cong’s achievements are available from the press release by the ESDA and IEEE CEDA, and the UCLA Samueli Engineering’s announcement.

Prof. Cong celebrated the award with many former VAST Lab members at the event.  The tribute presentations by Prof. David Pan and Prof. Rob Rutenbar, as well as Prof. Cong’s acceptance speech are available at https://www.semi.org/en/communities/esda/mediaLibrary/2024_PhilKaufmanAward