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2000 – present

  • 2011:

    • Prateek Bhansali, MS (advisor: Roychowdhury). R&D, Intel.

    • Chenjie Gu, PhD (advisor: Roychowdhury). R&D, Intel.

  • 2010:

    • Jike Chong, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

    • Nathan Boyd Kitchen, PhD (advisor: Kuehlmann).

  • 2009:

    • Mike Case, PhD (advisor: Brayton). R&D, IBM.

    • Donald Chai, PhD (advisor: Kuehlmann).

    • Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

    • Wei Zheng, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 2008:

    • Shauki Elassaad, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Stanford.

    • Arkadeb Ghosal, PhD (advisors: Henzinger, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Aaron Hurst, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Yanmei Li, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Slobodan Matic, PhD (advisor: Henzinger).

    • Trevor Conrad Meyerowitz, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Alessandro Pinto, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, United Technologies.

    • Vinayak Prabhu, PhD (advisor: Henzinger).

    • Guoqiang Wang, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Haibo Zheng, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Qi Zhu, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, Intel.

  • 2007:

    • Alvise Bonivento, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Arindam Chakrabarti, PhD (advisor: Henzinger).

    • Satrajit Chatterjee, PhD (advisor: Brayton). DE Shaw and Company.

    • Krishnendu Chatterjee, PhD (advisor: Henzinger).

    • Abhijit Davare, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, Intel.

    • Douglas Michael Densmore, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, Boston University.

    • Kaushik Ravindran, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

    • Guang Yang, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 2006:

    • David Graeme Chinnery, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

    • Philip Chong, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Cong Liu, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Andrew Christopher Mihal, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

    • William Lester Plishker, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

  • 2005:

    • Fernando de Bernardinis, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Rong Chen, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Farinaz Koushanfar, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, Rice University.

    • Yinghua Lee, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

  • 2004:

    • Luca Carloni, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, Columbia University.

    • Heloise Hse, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Ranjit Jhala, PhD (advisor: Henzinger). Faculty, UCSD.

    • Fan Mo, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Faculty, NTU Taiwan.

    • Roberto Passerone, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Claudio Pinello, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Niraj R. Shah, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

    • Mark Spiller, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • James Young, PhD (advisor: Newton).

  • 2003:

    • Pinhong Chen, PhD (advisor: Keutzer).

    • Luca Daniel, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, MIT.

    • Benjamin Horowitz, PhD (advisor: Henzinger).

    • Rupak Majumdar, PhD (advisor: Henzinger). Faculty, UCLA.

    • Yunjian Jiang, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

  • 2002:

    • Freddy Y.C. Mang, PhD (advisor: Henzinger).

    • Subarnarekha Sinha, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Marco Sgroi, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Michael Shilman, PhD (advisor: Newton).

  • 2001:

    • Mukul Ranjan Prasad, PhD (advisor: Brayton). R&D, Fujitsu Labs of America.

    • Abdallah Tabbara, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Ken D. Yamaguchi, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 2000:

    • Mireille E. Broucke, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Wilsin Gosti, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Naji Ghazal, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Harry C. C. Hsieh, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Adrian J. Isles, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Lixin Su, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Bassam Tabbara, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Janet Meiling Wang, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, University of Arizona.

1990s

  • 1999:

    • Sunil P. Khatri, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Faculty, TAMU.

    • Yuji Kukimoto, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Shaz Qadeer, PhD (advisor: Henzinger). Microsoft Research.

    • Sriram K. Rajamani, PhD (advisor: Henzinger). Microsoft Research.

    • Amit Mehrotra, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Berkeley Design Automation.

    • Iason Vassiliou, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 1998:

    • Szu-Tsung Cheng, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Sriram C. Krishnan, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Amit Narayan, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). President & CEO, AutoGrid Systems; Director of Smart Grid Research in Modeling and Simulation, Stanford University.

    • Serdar Tasiran, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Faculty, Koc University, Turkey.

  • 1997:

    • Premal Buch, PhD (advisor: Newton). GM & Corporate VP, Magma Design Automation.

    • Alper Demir, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, Koc University.

    • Desmond A. Kirkpatrick, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, Intel.

    • Rajeev K. Ranjan, PhD (advisor: Brayton). CTO, Jasper Design Automation.

    • Tianxiong Xue, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1996:

    • Wendell Craig Baker, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Eric J. Felt, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Ramin Hojati, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Jagesh V. Sanghavi, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, Tensilica.

    • Vigyan Singhal, PhD (advisor: Brayton). CEO, Oski Technology.

    • Henry S.-W. Sheng, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Thomas R. Shiple, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, Synopsys.

    • Gitanjali Swamy, PhD (advisor: Brayton). AARM Corporation.

    • Huey-yih Wang, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Adnan Aziz, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Faculty, UT Austin.

  • 1995:

    • Felice Balarin, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Edoardo Charbon, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, ETH Zurich.

    • Timothy Y.-K. Kam, PhD (advisor: Brayton). R&D, Intel.

    • Christopher K. Lennard, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Minshine Shih, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Tiziano Villa, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, Univ. Verona, Italy.

  • 1994

    • Henry Chang, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Designer's Guide Automation.

    • Charles Kring, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • William K.-C. Lam, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Arlindo M. Limede de Oliveira, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, IST Lisbon.

    • Paul Stephan, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Eric R. Tomacruz, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Yosinori Watanabe, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

  • 1993:

    • John M. Beardslee, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Narasimha B. Bhat, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Rajeev Murgai, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). VP Product Development, Magma Design Automation.

    • Brian Lee, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Edward W. Y. Liu, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Jaijeet Roychowdhury, PhD (advisor: Newton). Faculty, UC Berkeley.

    • Ellen M. Sentovich, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Narendra V. Shenoy, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Synopsys.

  • 1992:

    • Pranav Ashar, PhD (advisor: Newton). CTO, RealIntent.

    • William R. Bush, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Umakanta Choudhury, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, Intel.

    • Luciano Lavagno, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, Politechnico di Torino.

    • Shen Lin, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Cho Moon, PhD (advisor: Brayton). R&D, Synopsys.

    • Linda S. Milor, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, Georgia Tech.

    • Antony P.-C. Ng, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Hamid Savoj, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Technology Fellow, Magma Design Automation.

    • Kanwar Jit Singh, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 1991:

    • Andrea Casotto, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Brian O'Krafka, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Bill Lin, PhD (advisor: Newton). Faculty, UCSD.

    • Massoud Pedram, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, USC.

    • Alex Saldanha, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Exponential Interactive, Inc.

    • Gregory B. Sorkin, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, IBM.

    • Arvind Srinivasan, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Deborah C. Wang, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1990:

    • Jeffrey Burns, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Michael A. B. Jackson, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Theologos M. Kelessoglou, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Sharad Malik, PhD (advisor: Brayton). Faculty, Princeton University.

    • Herve J. Touati, PhD (advisor: Brayton). MD, E.ON Climate and Renewables.

1980s

  • 1989:

    • Seung-Ho Hwang, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Ken Kundert, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). President, Designers’ Guide Consulting.

    • Hi-Keung Tony Ma, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Patrick C. McGeer, PhD (advisor: Brayton).

    • Thomas L. Quarles, PhD (advisor: Newton). R&D, Mentor Graphics.

    • Fabio I. Romeo, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Richard L. Rudell, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Rick L. Spickelmier, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Ren-Song Tsay, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, NTHU Taiwan.

    • Albert R. R. Wang, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Tammy T.-C. Wang, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Xiao-Ming Xiong, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1988:

    • Kwang-Ting Cheng, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, UCSB.

    • Wayne Wei-Ming Dai, PhD (advisor: Kuh). VeriSilicon.

    • Giorgio Casinovi, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Georgia Tech.

    • Srinivas Devadas, PhD (advisor: Newton). Faculty, MIT.

    • Young Kim, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Kartikeya Mayaram, PhD (advisor: Pederson). Faculty, Oregon State.

    • David C. Riley, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Jyuo-Min Shyu, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Hormoz Yaghutiel, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 1987:

    • Howard H. Chen, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • George K. Jacob, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Resve Saleh, PhD (advisor: Newton). Faculty, UBC.

    • Carl M. Sechen, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, UT Dallas.

    • Hyungchul Shin, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 1986:

    • Chao-Chiang Chen, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Ronald S. Gyurcsik, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Howard F.-H. Ko, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Ruey-Sing Wei, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

  • 1985:

    • Jeffery T. Deutsch, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Mark Hofmann, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Bing Sheu, PhD (advisors: Pederson, Hu, Ko). Faculty, NTUST Taiwan.

    • Jacob White, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, MIT.

  • 1984:

    • Chung-Kuan Cheng, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, UCSD.

    • Kenneth H. Keller, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • James E. Kleckner, PhD (advisor: Newton).

    • Jeong-Tyng Li, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Giovanni De Micheli, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). Faculty, EPFL Lausanne.

  • 1983:

    • Nang-Ping Chen, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Chi-Ping Hsu, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • William T. Nye, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Ion Ratiu, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

  • 1982:

    • Ekachai Lelarasmee, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli).

    • Vish Visvanathan, PhD (advisor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli). R&D, Texas Instruments.

  • 1981:

    • Sally Liu, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Ellis Cohen, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

  • 1980:

    • Min-Yu Hsueh, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

1970s

  • 1978:

    • Graeme R. Boyle, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • A. Richard Newton, PhD (advisor: Pederson). Faculty, UC Berkeley.

  • 1976:

    • Benjamin S.-M. Ting, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1975:

    • Ming-Jeh Chien, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Shi P. Fan, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Larry Nagel, PhD (advisor: Pederson). President, Omega Enterprises.

  • 1973:

    • Lap-Kit Cheung, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Binoy A. Rosario, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

  • 1972:

    • Theodor K. Breuning, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Ian E. Getreu, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • William J. McCalla, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

  • 1970:

    • Hikmat A. Abed, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Ibrahim N. Hajj, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, American University of Beirut.

    • Gary L. Baldwin, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Bruce A. Wooley, PhD (advisor: Pederson). Faculty, Stanford.

1960s and before

  • 1968:

    • Richard F. Adams, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Bill Rothfarb, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1967:

    • Ranendra N. Biswas, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, NIIT University, India.

    • William G. Howard, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

  • 1966:

    • Arthur J. Brodersen, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Yum Tong Chan, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Harold R. Hall, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • David A. Hodges, PhD (advisor: Pederson). Faculty, UC Berkeley.

    • David M. Layton, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Yen-Long Kuo, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Graham A. Rigby, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Jimmy Tow, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1965:

    • Amnon A. Gaash, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Gary D. Hachtel, PhD (advisor: Pederson). Faculty, CU Boulder.

  • 1964:

    • Minoru Fukada, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1963:

    • Lester O. Hill, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • David K. Lynn, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • John D. Patterson, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

    • Arnold Paige, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1962:

    • Sanjit K. Mitra, PhD (advisor: Kuh). Faculty, UCSB.

    • Robert S. Pepper, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Garth H. Wilson, PhD (advisors: Desoer, Pederson).

  • 1960:

    • Mohammad S. Ghausi, PhD (advisor: Pederson). Faculty, UC Davis.

    • Lawrence P. Huelsman, PhD (advisor: Pederson).

    • Jose E. Olivares, PhD (advisor: Kuh).

  • 1957:

    • Bharat K. Kinariwala, PhD (advisor: Pederson).