The ACM SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at the Design Automation Conference is a poster session hosted by ACM for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their dissertation research with people in the EDA community. It provides a forum for Ph.D. students in design automation to get feedback on their research and for industry to see academic work in progress. This year, research connected to SRC-supported projects were recognized with two of the three awards.

Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Ph.D. student of Professor Ramesh Karri at New York University, won the 2014 Most Popular Choice award for his poster titled " Trustworthy Integrated Circuit Design". The project is supported by task 2440.013 with the title "Hardware Security and Trust for Low-Power Wireless Sensor. This work is part of the ACE4S Center with the collaboration of Professor Ozgur Sinanoglu at NYU in Abu Dhabi.

ECE doctoral student Shupeng Sun from Carnegie Melon University  won the 2014 Best Poster Award for his poster titled " Fast Statistical Analysis of Rare Failure Events in Circuits". The project with Professor Xin Li was initially supported by task 1836.044 in the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) with the title “Statistical Models and Methods for Design and Test of Non-Digital Components.”