Sharon Hu

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Hu is a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research interests include low-power system design, circuit and architecture design with emerging technologies, embedded and cyber-physical systems, and hardware/software co-design. She has published over 300 papers and holds 6 U.S. patents. She received the NSF Career Award, the Best Paper Award from the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2001 and from the IEEE Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures in 2009. One of her papers was selected as The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years by Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2007. She was the Program Chair of DAC in 2016 and TPC Co-Chair of DAC 2014 and 2015. She also served as Associate Editor for several IEEE and ACM journals and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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DAC System Design Contest

By Sharon Hu - 20 Dec, 2017 - Comments: 0

When it comes to tackling leading-edge design challenges in fun ways, there’s no better place than DAC. For DAC 2018, we’ve created a System Design Contest targeting machine learning on embedded hardware. If you think this is too leading edge for a design contest, you’d be mistaken: More than 100 teams registered for the contest. You can find a full list of the teams here. So ho... » read more

Introducing The 55th DAC General Chair

By Sharon Hu - 03 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

My first time attending DAC was in 1991, and I am so excited to be serving as the General Chair for the 55th annual conference this June. Coming from academia and meeting new people in the industry sector who have been involved with DAC for years, I thought this to be good opportunity to introduce myself to the entire community. I got my start in engineering as an undergraduate student. Both... » read more