The DARClab hosted at UT Dallas the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design ( ICCD 2025) between November 10-12. Great technical presentations, keynotes from Synopsys, NVIDIA and AMD, tutorials, LLM for hardware design challenge.
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Chaitali’s PhD Defense
Congratulations to Chaitali (Dr. Sathe) for successfully defending her PhD entitled ” Evolving Defense Mechanisms and Attack Frameworks in Hardware IP Security”. Well done!
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Advancing Innovation in Master of Science and Engineering (AIM S&E) Scholars Career Development program at UT Dallas
A new University of Texas at Dallas initiative will provide financial, academic and career training support to low-income students pursuing master’s degrees in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) fields.
The Advancing Innovation in Master of Science and Engineering (AIM S&E) Scholars Career Development program is designed to produce graduates who will continue their education by pursuing a PhD in a STEM area or who will enter the STEM workforce in areas of national need, such as artificial intelligence (AI), biomedical sciences and engineering.
The project is funded by a $2 million grant (2527796) from the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the goal of which is to increase the number of academically talented students from low-income backgrounds who complete STEM degrees and enter the U.S. STEM workforce. The program supports student mentoring and career development, as well as research on factors that contribute to student success.
Eligible students in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) and the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science will be invited to apply for scholarships of up to $20,000 per year. The first scholarships are expected to be awarded for the fall 2026 term.
GLSVLSI 2025 Best Poster Award
We won ACM GLSVLSI 2025 best poster award!
ECE Doctoral Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Imtiaz for receiving the ECE Doctoral Dissertation Award and congratulations on starting a new job a Texas Instruments @TXInstruments.
ICCD 2025 Conference
The DARClab will organize the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2025) here at the University of Texas at Dallas from November 10th to 12th. You can find more information at www.iccd-conf.com
Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students (REU)
The ECE department offers every semester opportunities for undergraduate students to join a research lab and be exposed to their research activities.
This semester the DARClab has hosted Omar Abioye who was been working on the topic of approximate computing.
DoD SMART News
Congratulations to Victoria for being offered the DoD Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service award.
The SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program offers full tuition, annual stipends, internship, and guaranteed civilian employment with the Department of Defense for students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degrees in one of SMART’s 24 STEM disciplines.
Only 2 students at UT Dallas have received this award!
High-Level Synthesis: Applications
A new book covering applications of HLS has just been published. The book can be downloaded for free from www.hlsbook.com and a hardcopy can be purchased through the Amazon book store here.
The book contains 8 chapters as follows:
- Chapter: VLSI design overview.
- HLS: One description, infinite implementations.
- Low power design in High-Level Synthesis
- Temperature control in HLS: Is it even possible?
- Hardware security.
- Fault Tolerance.
- Modernizing Legacy Hardware design through HLS.
- Wrapping up.
Enjoy it!
ConTex scholarships for Mexican Students- Becas para estudiantes Mexicanos
Mexican students interested in pursuing PhD studies in the area of reconfigurable computing, computer architecture and EDA at the DARClab are invited to apply through the ConTex program.
Si estas interesado en estudiar en UT Dallas ponte en contacto conmigo para discutir como aplicar a una beca de ConTex (CONACYT y University of Texas).