ESWEEK 2024 Awards

The list of best paper and test-of-time awards from previous years is available elsewhere.

Test of Time Awards

CASES

Highly Energy and Performance Efficient Embedded Computing through Approximately Correct Arithmetic: A Mathematical Foundation and Preliminary Experimental Validation

Lakshmi N.B. Chakrapani (Rice University), Kirthi Krishna Muntimadugu (Rice University), Avinash Lingamneni (Rice University), Jason George (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Krishna V. Palem (Rice University)

CODES+ISSS

Temperature-aware Processor Frequency Assignment for MPSoCs Using Convex Optimization

Srinivasan Murali (EPFL), Almir Mutapcic (Stanford), David Atienza (EPFL, Complutense University of Madrid), Rajesh Gupta (University of California), Stephen Boyd (Stanford) and Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL)

EMSOFT

Symbolic analysis for improving simulation coverage of Simulink/Stateflow models

Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania), Aditya Kanade (University of Pennsylvania), S. Ramesh (GM India Science Lab), K.C. Shashidhar (GM India Science Lab)

Best Paper Awards

CASES

A Dataflow-aware Network-on-Interposer for CNN Inferencing in the Presence of Defective Chiplets
Harsh Sharma (Washington State University), Umit Ogras (University of Wisconsin Madison), Ananth Kalyanraman (Washington State University), and Partha Pratim Pande (Washington State University)

CODES+ISSS

Reliable, Versatile, and Efficient Data Matching in SSD’s NAND Flash Memory Chip for Data Indexing Acceleration
Yun-Chih Chen (Technische Universität Dortmund), Yuan-Hao Chang (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica), and Tei-Wei Kuo (Delta Electronics and National Taiwan University)

EMSOFT

Thread Carefully: Preventing Starvation in the ROS 2 Multithreaded Executor
Harun Teper (TU Dortmund University), Daniel Kuhse (TU Dortmund University), Mario Günzel (TU Dortmund University), Georg von der Brüggen (TU Dortmund University), Falk Howar (TU Dortmund University) and Jian-Jia Chen (TU Dortmund University and Lamarr Institute)

Best Paper Candidates

CASES

NDPGNN: A Near-data Processing Architecture for GNN Training and Inference Acceleration
Haoyang Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Shengbing Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Xiaoya Fan (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Zhao Yang (Chang’an University), Meng Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

A Dataflow-aware Network-on-Interposer for CNN Inferencing in the Presence of Defective Chiplets
Harsh Sharma (Washington State University), Umit Ogras (University of Wisconsin Madison), Ananth Kalyanraman (Washington State University), and Partha Pratim Pande (Washington State University)

MaskedHLS: Domain-Specific High-Level Synthesis of Masked Cryptographic Designs
Nilotpola Sarma (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Anuj Singh Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), and Chandan Karfa (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

CODES+ISSS

Reliable, Versatile, and Efficient Data Matching in SSD’s NAND Flash Memory Chip for Data Indexing Acceleration
Yun-Chih Chen (Technische Universität Dortmund), Yuan-Hao Chang (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica), and Tei-Wei Kuo (Delta Electronics and National Taiwan University)

ROI-HIT: Region of Interest-driven High-dimensional Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration
Xuyang Zhao (Fudan University), Tianning Gao (University of Texas at Dallas), Aidong Zhao (Fudan University), Zhaori Bi (Fudan University), Changhao Yan (Fudan University), Fan Yang (Fudan University), Sheng-Guo Wang (Fudan University), Dian Zhou (Fudan University), and Xuan Zeng (Fudan University)

Flexible Generation of Fast and Accurate Software Performance Simulators from Compact Processor Descriptions
Conrad Foik (Technical University of Munich), Robert Kunzelmann (Technical University of Munich), Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder (Technical University of Munich), and Ulf Schlichtmann (Technical University of Munich)

EMSOFT

Thread Carefully: Preventing Starvation in the ROS 2 Multithreaded Executor
Harun Teper (TU Dortmund University), Daniel Kuhse (TU Dortmund University), Mario Günzel (TU Dortmund University), Georg von der Brüggen (TU Dortmund University), Falk Howar (TU Dortmund University) and Jian-Jia Chen (TU Dortmund University and Lamarr Institute)

Analysis and Prevention of MCAS-Induced Crashes
Noah T. Curran (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor), Thomas W. Kennings (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor), Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)

Polynomial Neural Barrier Certificate Synthesis of Hybrid Systems via Counterexample Guidance
Hanrui Zhao (East China Normal University), Banglong Liu (East China Normal University), Lydia Dehbi (East China Normal University), Huijiao Xie (East China Normal University), Zhengfeng Yang (East China Normal University), Haifeng Qian (East China Normal University)

Outstanding Reviewers Award

CASES

Hammond Pearce (University of New South Wales, AU)
Dolly Sapra (University of Amsterdam, NL)

CODES+ISSS

Kuan-Hsun Chen (University of Twente, NL)
Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University, US)

EMSOFT

Timothy Bourke (INRIA Paris, FR)
Geoffrey Nelissen (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)

Competitions

ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition (SRC) Awards

Graduate Category
Champion: Mengyu Liu, University of Notre Dame, US
Second Place: Junyeong Park, University of Central Florida, US
Third Place: Qiang Zhang, Hunan University, CN

Embedded Systems Software Competition (ESSC)

SafePilot: Toolbox for Assuring LLM-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems
Weizhe Xu, Mengyu Liu, Fanxin Kong
University of Notre Dame

POLAR-Express: Efficient and Precise Formal Reachability Analysis of Neural-Network Controlled Systems
Frank Yang, Sinong Simon Zhan, Yixuan Wang, Chao Huang, Qi Zhu
Northwestern University, University of Southampton

HISIM: A Tool for Fast Design Exploration of 2.5D/3D/3.5D Heterogeneous Integration for AI Computing
Zhenyu Wang, Pragnya Sudershan Nalla, Jingbo Sun, A. Alper Goksoy, Sumit K. Mandal, Jae-sun Seo, Vidya Chhabria, Jeff Zhang, Chaitali Chakrabarti, Umit Y. Ogras, Yu Cao
Arizona State University, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indian Institute of Science, Cornell Tech