Mr. Gengjie Chen Won the First Place of ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals

Congratulations to Mr. Gengjie Chen, a fourth-year PhD student under the supervision of Professor Evangeline F. Y. Young, won the first place of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition Grand Finals. The Grand Finals showcased winners culminating from a year-long competition in which 360 computer science students presented research projects at 26 ACM conferences. Gengjie Chen won the first place of ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Student Research Competition held at the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) to qualify for the Grand Finals. His research competition title is “VLSI Routing: Seeing Nano Tree in Giga Forest”. The award was presented at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 15 in San Francisco, where Turing Award of this year was also presented.