Prof. Jason Cong received the Pender Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania on March 18, 2025 “for groundbreaking contributions in field-programmable gate arrays and electronic design automation”.  

 

Established in 1972, the Pender Award, initiated in 1972,  is the school’s highest honor, and it is named for Harold Pender, the founding Dean of Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering, who led the school during the development and debut of ENIAC in 1945.  Past recipients represent some of the most distinguished figures in engineering, recognized for their profound contributions to society. Recent honorees include Shafi Goldwasser, Yann LeCun, Barbara Liskov, Robert Kahn, and Vinton Cerf. For the full list of recipients, please see https://events.seas.upenn.edu/distinguished-lectures/pender-lecture/