DATE is pleased to present a special hybrid format for its 2022 event, as the situation related to COVID-19 is improving but safety measures and restrictions will remain uncertain for the upcoming months across Europe and worldwide. In transition towards a future post-pandemic event again, DATE 2022 will host a two-day live event in presence in the city of Antwerp (just north of Brussels in Belgium), to bring the community together again, followed by other activities carried out entirely online in the subsequent days. This setup combines the in-presence experience with the opportunities of on-line activities, fostering the networking and social interactions around an interesting program of selected talks and panels on emerging topics to complement the traditional DATE high-quality scientific, technical and educational activities.

PhD Forum - Call for Submissions

The PhD forum is hosted by the European Design Automation Association (EDAA), the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA), and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). The forum is a great opportunity for PhD students who have completed their PhD thesis within the last 12 months or who are close to complete their thesis to present their work to a broad audience in the system design and design automation community from both industry and academia. The forum may also help students to establish contacts for entering the job market. In addition, representatives from industry and academia get a glance of state-of-the-art in system design and design automation.

Eligibility

The following two classes of students are eligible:

  1. Students who have finished their PhD thesis within the last 12 months and
  2. Students who are close to complete their thesis work.

Benefits

  • A poster presentation at the PhD Forum
  • Eligibility to win the PhD Forum Award
  • Contacts to professionals from industry and academia
  • Possibility to distribute flyers summarizing the PhD work
  • Possibility to apply for travel grants once the acceptance of the submission has been acknowledged
  • FREE registration for the DATE Monday tutorials

Submission

Submissions need to contain:

  • Full contact address with affiliation, phone, e-mail
  • A 2-page extended abstract describing the novelties and advantages of the thesis work of not more than 1600 words (PDF). The abstract should also include name and affiliation.
  • Either (a) a University-approved thesis proposal (PDF) or (b) one published paper (PDF)

Submit this material to the DATE online submission system at https://www.softconf.com/date21/phdforum/ .

Important dates

  • Submission deadline: Monday, 02 November 2020 AoE
  • Notification of acceptance: Monday, 07 December 2020 AoE
  • Presentation at DATE: Monday, 01 February 2021

Contact

Robert Wille, Johannes Kepler University Linz, ATPhD Forum Chair
Robert Wille, Johannes Kepler University Linz, AT
phd-forumatdate-conference [dot] com (phd-forum[at]date-conference[dot]com)

About the sponsors

EDAA is a nonprofit association. Its purpose is to operate for educational, scientific and technical purposes for the benefit of the international electronics design and design automation community. The Association, in the field of design and design automation of electronic circuits and systems, promotes a series of high quality technical international conferences and workshops across Europe and cooperates actively to maintain harmonious relationships with other national and international technical societies and groups promoting the purpose of the Association. EDAA is the main sponsor of DATE, the premier Design, Automation and Test Conference and Exhibition in Europe.

https://www.edaa.com

The ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation is organised and operated exclusively for educational, scientific, and technical purposes in design automation. The mission of SIGDA and its activities includes collecting and disseminating information in design automation through a newsletter and other publications; organising sessions at conferences of the ACM; sponsoring conferences, symposia, and workshops; organising projects and working groups for education, research, and development; serving as a source of technical information for the Council and subunits of the ACM; and representing the opinions and expertise of the members- hip on matters of technical interest to SIGDA or ACM.

https://www.sigda.org

The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) provides a focal point for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and embedded systems research and promotion activities spread across six IEEE societies: Antennas and Propagation, Circuits and Systems, Computer, Electron Devices, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Solid-State Circuits. The Council sponsors or co-sponsors over a dozen key EDA and embedded systems conferences, and publishes IEEE Transactions on CAD, IEEE Design & Test of Computers, and IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. CEDA is continuously involved in promoting research in engineering performed by young researchers and professionals, and recognizing its leaders via the A. Richard Newton Award, Early Career Award, and Phil Kaufmann Awards.

https://ieee-ceda.org/

Download further information:

Download the DATE 2021 PhD Forum Call for Papers here

Young People Program

If you are interested in the DATE 2021 PhD Forum, also the Young People Program will be of interest for you! This provides a set of initiatives targeting PhD students, with the goal of increasing their visibility, establishing contacts, and encouraging discussion about their future perspectives with experts of the field. For more information, check out this page.

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