Student Awards
2011 TSMC Outstanding Student Research Academy Award
The 5th TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award Committee (2011) granted its highest honor, the Academy Award, to Benjamin Tee. This prestigious award places Benjamin Tee as the Top finalist among all four awards category after a rigorous selection process of abstract submission and research presentation. Graduate students from top engineering schools such as MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford, University of Michigan, Purdue, and UIUC, were among the finalists. Dr. S. Y. Chiang, TSMC’s Senior Vice President of Research and Development, presented the Academy Award to Benjamin. The Award Committee consists of highly distinguished judges, chaired by Dr. Burn Lin, Vice President of R&D, TSMC, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Distinguished Fellow of the TSMC Academy, Fellows of IEEE and SPIE.
2011 TSMC Outstanding Student Research Gold Award
The TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award recognizes exceptional semiconductor-related researches carried out by graduate students internationally. Benjamin Tee came in 1st in his category - Physics and Chemistry of Electronic Materials - out of a total of 7 outstanding finalists from a pool of more than 200 applicants, after an extremely rigorous selection process of abstract submission and oral presentation. Dr. Anthony S. Oates, director of Technology Reliability Physics Research at TSMC, and a fellow of the TSMC Academy, helmed the team of highly distinguished judges in this category.
2011 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship Award
The Intel PhD Fellowship program focuses on research in Intels technical areas; Hardware Systems Technology and Design, Software Technology and Design, and Semiconductor Technology and Manufacturing. In 2011, 21 fellowships were awarded. This is a very prestigious award, and winning students are recognized as being tops in their areas of research.
Roy's thesis is Spintronics for low power reconfigurable computing - A theoretical and experimental study
2011-12 ARCS Scholar Award
The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Students) Scholar Award is intended to recognize, honor, and encourage outstanding students who have a record of past achievement, who show exceptional promise of making a significant contribution to the scientific and technological strength of the nation, and have a proven need for financial assistance to complete the educational program in progress.
Best Paper / Best Student Paper - 2010 IEEE International SOI Conference
Shuqing Cao’s Design for Electrostatic Discharge Protection Wins Both “Best Paper” and “Best Student Paper” Awards at IEEE International SOI Conference.
The 36th International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) Conference, held in San Diego, California, has awarded both its annual “Best Paper Award” and its “Best Student Paper Award” to Shuqing (Victor) Cao. The paper co-authored by Shuqing, his PhD thesis advisor Professor Robert Dutton and industry collaborators, “Field Effect Resistor, a Single-Device-At-Pad Solution for ESD Protection in Deeply Scaled SOI Technology,” describes a new device that protects circuits from electrostatic discharge (ESD), a key factor in integrated circuit (IC) failures during manufacturing and testing.
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2010
Congratulations go to John Brunhaver and Andrew Danowitz for winning the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2010. The Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship was started with the goal to enable PhD students (in a team of two) in EE/CS to pursue their futuristic innovative ideas. In 2010, the Fellowship received 80 applications from teams at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD and USC, of which 6 teams were chosen as Fellows. John Brunhaver and Andrew Danowitz were recommended by Prof. Mark Horowitz for their proposal on "Understanding Inefficiencies in General Purpose Processors". They will be mentored by Qualcomm researchers Mehrdad Reshadi and Pablo Montesinos-Ortego.
Numerical Technologies Founders Scholarship
The Numerical Technologies Founders Prize and the Numerical Technologies Founders Graduate Fellowship recognize outstanding achievement among students in the PhD program in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. The Prize, which carries a purse of $ 5000, is awarded annually to the student who stands first in the Department of Electrical Engineering PhD qualifying examination. The Fellowship will be awarded annually to the highest ranking student in the qualifying examination who does not have other major sources of financial aid and who plans to continue for the Ph.D. degree.
The winner this year is Suyog Gupta, a first year PhD student in our department. Suyog came to Stanford in the Fall of 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor's and Master's degrees of Technology.
The Numerical Technologies Founders awards were established by Dr. Yao-Ting Wang (Ph.D., 1997) and his advisor Professor Thomas Kailath, co-founders of Numerical Technologies, Inc., and their spouses. The company was created to commercialize the resolution enhancement techniques for optical lithography developed in Dr. Wang’s dissertation as part of a DARPA-sponsored project (1990-2000) on the applications of Control and Signal Processing to Semiconductor Manufacturing. The theme of the project was to demonstrate the power of the Mathematical Engineering approach: going from an ill-defined physical problem to an idealized mathematical model, its often-approximate solution, and then compromises for practical implementation and transition to industry. The first applications were to Rapid Thermal Processing and then to Optical Lithography where, when the project began, the industry was facing a so-called 100nm barrier. Numerical Technologies, in collaboration with Motorola, were the first to show that the barrier could be broken. This spurred further development of a host of resolution enhancement techniques the barrier has been lowered to 32nm. The company was founded in 1995, went public in 2000, and was acquired by Synopsis, Inc. in 2003. A different measure of the importance of the Mathematical Engineering approach is that the work on Rapid Thermal Processing won outstanding paper prizes in 1994 and 2003 from the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing.
The Inaugural IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition
Congratulations go to two Ph.D students working with Shan Wang. Drew Hall, a fourth-year student in electrical engineering, and Richard Gaster, a medical and bioengineering student, won the inaugural IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition. They proposed and built a hand held laboratory capable of diagnosing illness in remote corners of the globe.