Associate Professor Himanshu Thapliyal recently co-chaired the 2024 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) in Knoxville.
About the IEEE Computer Society Symposium
The conference, which took place July 1–3 at the Crowne Plaza, is a prestigious event that attracted top microelectronics researchers from around the world. The 2024 symposium was larger and more diverse than ever, featuring 234 submissions and 155 full-paper presentations from 29 countries.
The event explored emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts covering a broad range of topics in the area of VLSI, including VLSI circuits, systems, and design methods; system level design issues; and bringing VLSI design to new areas and technologies such as nano- and molecular devices, security, artificial intelligence, and Internet-of-Things. Future design methodologies and new EDA tools were also a key topic at the symposium.
The conference included six keynote addresses from industry and academia, panel discussions, and technical sessions.
Thapliyal’s Role at the Conference
“Hosting the conference was a fantastic experience, offering excellent networking opportunities and highlighting the exceptional work in VLSI, emerging technologies, quantum computing, AI hardware, and hardware security at UT and across the globe,” Thapliyal said. “It also supported the professional development of our students as they can get opportunities to interact with top researchers from around the world. The event was a tremendous success, receiving outstanding feedback from attendees who praised it as one of the best-organized conferences they have attended.”
Thapliyal served as the general co-chair of the conference with Professor Juergen Becker from KIT Germany. Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Head Garrett Rose served as the program co-chair of the conference with Associate Professor Tosiron Adegbija of the University of Arizona, and Professor Selcuk Kose of the University of Rochester.
During the banquet and award ceremony, Thapliyal honored the founders of ISVLSI, Amar Mukherjee and Nagarajan Ranganathan, who are both prominent figures in the VLSI field. ISVLSI also appointed Thapliyal to the steering committee of the future editions of the conference.
In the ISVLSI workshop on quantum computing, Tyler Cultice and Md. Saif Hassan Onim from Thapliyal’s team earned the Best Paper Award for their paper “Anomaly Detection for Real-World Cyber-Physical Security using Quantum Hybrid Support Vector Machines.”
Thapliyal and Rose, along with other conference chairs. will be guest editing a special issue of the Best Paper presented at the symposium in the IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI).
Award winners from the conference can be found on the IEEE Conference’s website.
Contact
Rhiannon Potkey (865-974-0683, rpotkey@utk.edu)