Prof. Cong delivered a keynote speech entitled “Compilation and Architecture Optimization for Quantum Computing” at the 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2025) on January 22, 2025, Tokyo, Japan. ASP-DAC is the largest conference in Asia and South-Pacific regions on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) area for VLSI and systems. ASP-DAC has been started at 1995…
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Congratulations to Computer Science PhD graduate Karl Marrett (supervised by Prof. Jason Cong) for winning the Best Student Paper Award titled “Gossamer: Scaling Image Processing and Reconstruction to Whole Brains” at Brain Informatics ’24, the principal conference at the intersection of AI and brain imaging.  This work is based on interdisciplinary research between UCLA Computer Science (led by…
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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…
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Prof. Cong has been selected to receive the 2025 ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented at the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) in Austin, TX, on March 16-19, 2025.  This award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of physical design automation that span several decades. The purpose…
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We are pleased to share the interview of Prof. Jason Cong by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Prof. Yiran Chen, EiC, and Prof. Fan Chen, the Associate Editor. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10378993  

Prof. Jason Cong received the Outstanding Scientist Award from the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA (CAST-USA) at its 31st Annual Meeting and Global Innovation Summit October 14, 2023 in Irvine, CA. Past winners of this award including distinguished Chinese American scientists, including Prof. Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University, Fields Medalist), late Prof. Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University, recipient…
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Congratulations to Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Cody Hao Yu, Jason Cong from UCLA and Min Gao from Falcon Computing for receiving the 2023 Best Paper Award from the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) for their paper entitled “AutoDSE: Enabling Software Programmers to Design Efficient FPGA Accelerators” published in February 2022. It presents an…
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Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong and VAST Lab alumni, Yiping Fan, Guoling Han, Zhiru Zhang for being the Class of 2023 Inductees to the TCFPGA Hall of Fame for the paper “Application-Specific Instruction Generation for Configurable Processor Architectures” (February 2004). http://hall-of-fame.tcfpga.org

Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong for receiving the “Global Industry Leader” Award from ChipEx’2023 on May 8, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel, for “groundbreaking research and development which revolutionized electronic design automation and FPGA design methods, for co-founding several chip design related companies, and for teaching hundreds of UCLA students, many of them who now hold influential…
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Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong for receiving the 2023 EDAA Achievement Award, which is given to an individual each year who made outstanding contributions to state of the art in electronic design, automation and testing of electronic systems in their life.  Please see EDAA’s Press Release for more details. https://www.edaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/EDAA_Press_Release_Cong-Revised-v4_final.pdf