Masdar Institute and MIT wins IEEE EDA Best Paper Award for 2014

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, announced a scientific paper submitted by a faculty team from MIT and Masdar Institute has won the prestigious Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award (IEEE TCAD Best Paper Award) 2014.
The winning authors, Mr. Zheng Zhang, Dr. Tarek A. El-Moselhy, Dr. Ibrahim (Abe) M. Elfadel, and Dr. Luca Daniel, received an unprecedented three nominations for their paper titled ‘Stochastic Testing Method for Transistor-Level Uncertainty Quantification Based on Generalized Polynomial Chaos'. The paper was a joint research project undertaken under the MIT-Masdar Institute Collaborative Research Program.
The award was presented last month at the Award Ceremony of the 51stDesign Automation Conference (DAC) that was held in San Francisco, US, between 1-5 June.
Sponsored by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), the Donald O. Pederson Award recognizes the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems in the two calendar years preceding the award. Any paper published in the Transactions during this period may be nominated for the award. Various factors are taken into account while judging the nominees, including the overall quality, originality, level of contribution, subject matter, and the timeliness of the research.
In its award citation, IEEE CEDA describes the paper as an ‘outstanding accomplishment'.