The IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference fellowship, 2001
Invited speaker at the IBM Annual All-site Meeting in Fishkill, NY 2001.
Invited speaker at ISQED 2003, ISPD 2003 and IWLS 2003.
Distinguished Lecture in Quantum Information Processing,
National Institute of Standards (NIST), Radiation Physics Division, January 2004.
The 2004IEEE Circuits and Systems (CaS) Society
Donald O. Pederson Award (presented at DAC 2004) for the paper,
"Synthesis of Reversible Logic Circuits",
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits
and Systems, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 710-722, June 2003
(with V.V. Shende, A.K. Prasad, and J.P. Hayes).
Invited speaker at the Intel research symposium in Haifa, Israel, June 2004.
The 2004 ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA)
Outstanding New Faculty Award (presented at ICCAD in November 2004).
Best paper award at DATE 2005 for the paper
``Accurate Reliablity Evaluation and Enhancement via Probabilistic
Transfer Matrices'' by
S. Krishnaswamy, G. F. Viamontes, I. L. Markov and J. P. Hayes.
ACM Recognition of Service Award 2005
NSF CAREER Award 2005
Synplicity Inc., Faculty Award 2005
ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA)
Technical Leadership Award (presented at ICCAD 2005)
Senior member of IEEE 2005
First place at the ISPD 2007 global routing contest
Invited talks at EDPS 2007, 2008, 2010
ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA)
member of Advisory Board 2005-2006 and Executive Board 2007
Invited attendee at the Google Faculty Research Summit in Mountain View, CA
July 2007
Senior member of ACM 2007, ACM Distinguished Scientist 2011
A series of 8 invited lectures at Taiwan Universities
in September-October 2007:
National Taiwan Univ. (EE/EDA, EE/CS and CSIE),
National Cheng-Kung Univ. (EE and CS),
Sun Yat-sen Univ. (CS),
National Chiao Tung Univ. and Tsing-Hua Univ.
Invited talk at IEEE Kansai chapter, Kyoto, Japan, October 2007
Invited talk at SASIMI 2007 in Sapporo, Japan, October 2007
Communications of ACM (CACM) member of editorial board, January 2008
EECS Outstanding Achievement Award from the Univ. of Michigan, January 2008
Microsoft A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award, March 2008
Best paper award at ISPD 2008 for the paper ``Optimizing
Non-Monotonic Interconnect using Functional Simulation and Logic
Restructuring,'' co-authored with Steve Plaza and Prof. Valeria Bertacco.
Invited talk at VTS 2008 in San Diego, CA April 2008
Invited mini-course on Physical Design of Integrated Circuits in
Bento Goncalves, Brazil, May 2008
Invited speaker at the Intel research symposium in Haifa, Israel, June 2008
Invited attendee at the Microsoft Faculty Research Summit in Redmond, WA,
July 2008
First place at the ISPD 2009 clock-network synthesis contest
ACM SIGDA Service Award 2009
Presenter at the National Science Foundation workshop on the Future of
Electronic Design Automation; Arlington, VA, July 2009
Inaugural IEEE CEDA Early Career Award
for outstanding contributions to
algorithms, methodologies and software for the physical design of integrated
circuits, presented at ICCAD 2009
First place at the ISPD 2010 clock-network synthesis contest
Best paper award at ICCAD 2010 for the paper
"SimPL: An Effective Placement Algorithm" by M.-C. Kim, D.-J. Lee
and I. L. Markov
First place at the ICCAD 2012 and third places at
the ISPD 2011 and DAC 2012 contests
on routability-driven placement
GSRC A. Richard Newton impact award 2012
Best paper award at the Turing Centenary Conference, Manchester, UK,
June 2012
IEEE Fellow, November 2012
First and second places at the ISPD 2013 gate-sizing contest
A mini-course at Moscow State University, May 2013
DAC Prolific Author Award, June 2013
Top Writer on Quora, 2013
Best-paper award nominations at DAC 1997,
ASPDAC 1999, ASPDAC 2000,
DAC 2003, DAC 2004, DATE 2005, ISPD 2006,
ISPD 2008, ICCAD 2010, ISPD 2011, ICCAD 2011,
DATE 2012.