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The Award serves the purpose to promote most impactful doctoral student work, to provide the students with the exposure to the community and the prospective employers, and to support interaction between academia and industry in the field of test technology. The Award is given to the winner of a two-stage contest with semi-finals held at TTTC-sponsored conferences, symposia or workshops. The winners of the semi-finals, determined by jurys composed of industrial experts, will compete against each other in the finals, held at a major TTTC-sponsored conference or symposium. This major Award is named after Prof. Edward J. McCluskey, a key educator and mentor in the fields of test technology, logic design, and reliability.
Call for Participation 2012
All active doctoral students working on test-related topics and recent graduates who graduated 2010 or later are eligible for the Award. An individual can only participate in the contest once in a lifetime. Prospective participants are encouraged to participate when they are close to thesis completion and have obtained sufficient results. Prospective contestants submit a summary of their thesis work (up to 2000 words), possibly accompanied by one additional page of figures and references. They are free to submit up to three published referenced as supporting material, which are considered by the jury on an optional basis. The abstract should clearly address the following:
- define the problem and its relevance to industry,
- describe existing industrial practices for solving the problem, and
- explain the proposed methodology (and any pertinent case study) and how it advances the theory and/or practice in the particular field.
A student can freely choose the regional (semi-finals) site to submit the summary. Submissions to multiple regional sites are prohibited.
There are three semi-finals sites for the Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2012:
- VLSI Test Symposium 2012 (VTS'12) in Hawaii, USA; Deadline: February, 7th, 2012;
to submit for the Best Doctoral Thesis Award, click here.
- European Test Symposium 2012 (ETS'12) in Annecy, France; Deadline: February 24, 2012;
to submit for the Best Doctoral Thesis Award, click here.
Direct your questions to Ilia Polian (University of Passau, Germany).
Based on the submitted abstracts, a set of semi-finalists will be selected for the semi-finals of the contest. Semi-finals could be canceled if the numbers of submissions is inadequately low. This round includes a short (seven-minute) slot for oral presentation during a dedicated session at the semi-final event. The jury will judge the presentations, and the winner of the semi-final will be announced during the event. The finalists will present their work in a 30-minute presentation at ITC'12, and the winner will be determined by a panel of industrial experts. The Award is given to the winning student and the advisor of the thesis and includes an invitation to submit a paper on the presented work to the IEEE Design & Test of Computers.
2011 Award Winner: Wing Chiu Tam
Awards 2011 - Read more...
Awards 2010 - Read more...
Organization and coordination
Overall organization, finals and European contest coordinator: Ilia Polian (University of Passau, Germany), TTTC Student Activities chair.
North American contest coordinator: Shobha Vasudevan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA).
Asian contest coordinator: Huawei Li (ICT, Beiljing).
Past recipients
| Name | Year | Description | Location |
Wing Chiu Tam,
Carnegie Mellon University | 2011 | 1st Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Physically-Aware Analysis of Systematic Defects in Integrated Circuits" | ITC 2011 |
Guihai Yan,
ICT Beijing | 2011 | 2nd Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Online Timing Variation Detection and Tolerance for Digital Integrated Circuits" | ITC 2011 |
Urban Ingelsson,
University of Southampton, UK | 2011 | 3rd Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Investigation into Voltage and Process Variation-Aware Manufacturing Test" | ITC 2011 |
Stephan Eggersgluess,
University of Bremen | 2010 | 1st Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Robust Algorithms for High Quality Test Pattern Generation using Boolean Satisfiability" | ITC 2010 |
Hsiu-Ming (Sherman) Chang,
University of California,
Santa Barbara | 2010 | 2nd Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Low-Cost Quality Assurance Techniques for High-Performance Mixed-Signal/RF Circuits and Systems" | ITC 2010 |
Alex Roschildt Pinto,
Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina, Brazil | 2010 | 3rd Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Autonomic Methods for Enhancing Communication Quality of Service in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks with Real Time Requirements" | ITC 2010 |
Mahmut Yilmaz,
Duke University | 2009 | 1st Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Automated Test Grading And Pattern Selection for Small-Delay Defects" | VTS 2009 |
Erkan Acar,
Duke University | 2009 | 2nd Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Architectural and Defect-Based Test and Diagnosis Techniques for RF Integrated Circuits" | VTS 2009 |
Bo Yang,
Polytechnic Institute of NYU | 2009 | 3rd Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Design-for-Test Techniques for Securing Scan-based Designs" | VTS 2009 |
Devanathan Varadarajan,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras, India | 2008 | First Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "On Power-safe Testing of System-on-Chips" | VTS 2008 |
Sudarshan Bahukudumbi,
Duke University, USA | 2008 | Second Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Wafer-Level Testing and Test Planning for Integrated Circuits" | VTS 2008 |
Francois-Fabien Ferhani,
Stanford University, USA | 2008 | Third Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Comparing Partial and Complete Test Sets and Test Metrics" | VTS 2008 |
Nisar Ahmed,
University of Connecticut, USA | 2007 | First Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "High Quality Delay Tests for Very Deep Submicron Designs" | VTS 2007 |
Nikola Bombieri,
University of Verona, Italy | 2007 | Second Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "A TLM Design for Verification Methodology" | VTS 2007 |
Ahcene Bounceur,
TIMA Laboratory,
Grenoble, France | 2007 | Third Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "CAT Platform for Mixed-Signal Circuit Testing" | VTS 2007 |
Federico di Palma,
University of Pavia, Italy | 2006 | First Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "End-of-line Algorithms for Process Diagnosis in Semiconductor Manufacturing" | VTS 2006 |
Achraf Dhayni,
TIMA Laboratory,
Grenoble, France | 2006 | Second Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Pseudorandom Built-In Self-Test for MEMS" | VTS 2006 |
Paolo Bernardi,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy | 2006 | Third Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Test Techniques for Systems on a Chip" | VTS 2006 |
| Alberto Valdes-Garcia | 2005 | First Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Development and Implementation of Built-In Testing Techniques for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits" | VTS 2005 |
| Anand Gopalan | 2005 | Second Place Winner. Thesis Topic: "Built-In-Self-Test of RF Front-end Circuitry" | VTS 2005 |
| Haralampos Stratigopoulos | 2005 | Third place co-winner. Thesis Topic: "Neural Classification of Analog Circuits" | VTS 2005 |
| Swarup Bhunia | 2005 | Third place co-winner. Thesis Topic: "Novel Low-Overhead Design-For-Testability Techniques for Improving Testability in Nano-Scaled Circuits" | VTS 2005 |
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