The top ten student papers have been selected from the 121 accepted student papers.
Presentations were held on Monday, August 11, in front of a panel of judges in the Lecture Hall from 10:20-16:40.
Cash prizes were awarded: 1st place–$500; 2nd place–$300; 3rd place–$200
The ten finalists and their presentation times are listed below:
10:20 – Introduction and Rules, Prof. Ethan Farquhar, University of Tennessee
10:42 – Minimizing Minimum Delay Compensations for Timing Variation-Aware Datapath Synthesis by Keisuke Inoue , Mineo Kaneko, Tsuyoshi Iwagaki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
11:05 – Toward DNA-Based Security Circuitry: First Step - Random Number Generation by Christy M. Bogard, Benjamin Arazi and Eric C. Rouchka, University of Louisville – 3rd Place
11:27 – A Performance Metric for Discrete-Time Chaos-Based Truly Random Number Generators by Ahmed Beirami, Hamid Nejati and Yehia Massoud, Rice University
11:50 – 13:20 Lunch
13:20 – Investigating the Impact of Carbon Nanotube-Based Driver Transistors on the Performance of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Interconnect by Tamer Ragheb, Arthur Nieuwoudt and Yehia Massoud, Rice University
13:42 – Optical Hybrid Processing Utilizing Photonic Crystals Incorporating Biological Materials by Scott Masturzo, Howard Jackson, Joseph Boyd, Robert Ewing, Hoda Abdel-Aty-Zohdy and Jan Yarrison-Rice, University of Cincinnati, Air Force Research Lab, Miami University
14:05 – A UHF Continuous-Time Current-Mode Band-Pass Delta Sigma Modulator Based on Active Inductor by Qiuning Chen, Kamal El-Sankary, Ezz El-Masry, Dalhousie University – 2nd Place
14:27 – A Temporal Matching Method for Pitch Determination from Noisy Speech Signals by Celia Shahnaz, Wei-Ping Zhu and M. Omair Ahmad, Concordia University
14:50 —- 15:10 Refreshments
15:10 – An Electrowetting Based Microgripper by Abhay Vasudev and Jiang Zhe, University of Akron – 1st Place
15:32 – A Combined Transfer Function and Neural Network Method for Modeling via in Multilayer Circuits by Xin Zhang, Yazi Cao and Qijun Zhang, Carleton University
15:55 – Lateral Coupling in Silicon Cochlear Models by Brandon Rumberg, Kyle McMillan, Charles Rea and David Graham, West Virginia University
16:17 – Award Presentations, Prof. Ethan Farquhar, University of Tennessee
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