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David Z. Pan (IEEE Fellow, SPIE Fellow) received his BS degree from Peking University and MS/PhD degrees from UCLA. He is currently Engineering Foundation Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include cross-layer IC design for manufacturing, reliability, security, machine learning in EDA, hardware acceleration, design/CAD for analog/mixed signal designs and emerging technologies such as nanophotonics. He has published over 300 refereed journal/conference papers and 8 US patents. He has served in many journal editorial boards and conference committees, including various leadership roles. He has received many prestigious awards, including SRC Technical Excellence Award, 16 Best Paper Awards, DAC Top 10 Author Award in Fifth Decade, ASP-DAC Frequently Cited Author Award, Communications of ACM Research Highlights, ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Award (4 times), UCLA Engineering Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, UT Austin RAISE Faculty Excellence Award, etc. He has graduated 23 PhD students who have won many awards, including the First Place of ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals in 2018, ACM/SIGDA Student Research Competition Gold Medal (twice), ACM Outstanding PhD Dissertation in EDA (twice).