Professor Jason Cong and his former Ph.D. students Guojie Luo and Bingjun Xiao and former postdoc Kalliopi Tsota received the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award this week from the 28th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC’2023 ) for their work “Optimizing Routability in Large-Scale Mixed-Size Placement” presented in ASP-DAC’2013 in Yokohama, Japan in January 2013. This is the third paper from Prof. Cong’s group to receive the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at ASP-DAC.  

ASP-DAC started in 1995 and is the largest conference in Asia and the South-Pacific regions in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) area for VLSI and systems. The paper can be accessed from the IEEE Xplore at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6509636