2004 Mahboob Khan Outstanding Mentor Award Winners
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James (Skip) Egley of Motorola/ Freescale Semiconductor "incarnates the very
spirit of an SRC Industry Liaison, " according to Professor Umberto Ravaioli of the
University of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign. He became a collaborator with SRC student
Gulzar Kathawala in the development of a new 3-D Monte Carlo Simulation program,
providing both an industry perspective and technical expertise. Colleagues, Clarence
Tracy and Ramachandran Muralidhar, acknowledge that "Skip's contributions and his
mentorship have been key in motivating students and helping them realize the value of
their contributions."
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Steven German of IBM is serving on the PhD thesis committee for SRC student,
Ritwik Bhattacharya at the University of Utah. According to Professor Ganesh
Gopalakrishnan, Steve is a mentor who directly interfaces with the students, spends
quality time discussing over the phone on a regular basis with them and offers
specific direction to their research project. John Darringer of IBM indicates,
Steve's involvement has brought a deeper insight into and appreciation of university
research and the results are helping IBM keep up with today's technology.
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Timothy Kam and Michael Kishinevsky of Intel served as a team with
Professor Rajesh Gupta at the University of California/Irvine in the SRC- sponsored
SPARK project, a new high-level synthesis methodology that is based on aggressive
parallelization of the source code. Former SRC student, Sumit Gupta, spent the summer
of 2001 with Tim and Mike at the Strategic CAD Lab in Oregon, enabling him to define
the future course of the SPARK project. The work received a best paper award at the
VLSI Design Conference in 2003.
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TM Mak of Intel has a long history of providing a real-life view to the
academic community. Professor Li-C Wang of the University of California/Santa Barbara
notes that over the last 3 years TM has visited the campus at least 17 times. TM
prepared a presentation for each visit and led a follow-up discussion regarding
possible research directions. According to Dr. Wang, " Several of his students have
sought technical advice, advice which has had considerable influence in shaping the
direction of some projects."
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Sani Nassif of IBM has participated as an Industry Liaison at the University
of Minnesota with Professor Sachin Sapatnekar's research team for a number of years.
Currently, the group is working on a project in Circuit Optimization for Low Power
and High Speed in the Presence of Uncertainty. Sani has brought an exceptional bridge
between industry and the academic community. He significantly influenced the
direction of, former SRC student, Haihu Su's research on power grid analysis and
optimization along with enabling several students to have a "real-life" experience at
IBM's Austin Lab.
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