8:30 am - 9:00 am       Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:15 am       Welcome

9:15 am - 9:45 am       Setting a Research Agenda in EDA (Sachin Sapatnekar, University of Minnesota)

9:45 am - 10:15 am     Research Beyond EDA (Lin Zhong, Rice University)

10:15 am - 10:30 am   Break

10:30 am - 11:00 am   Academic Career and How to get an Academic Job (Martin Wong, UIUC)

11:00 am - 11:30 am   Tenure Process (Nikil Dutt, University of California, Irvine)

11:30 am - 12:00 pm   Mentorship and Networking ( Mary Jane Irwin (Penn State University) and Yuan Xie, University of California, Santa Barbara )

12:00 pm- 1:30 pm      Lunch+ Speed Mentoring / Networking

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm       Industrial Panel (moderator: Michael Huebner - Ruhr Univ. Bochum)

• Patrick Haspel (Head of Global Academic Partnerships and University Programs, Cadence)

• Parimal Patel (Senior Systems Engineer,  Xilinx University Program),

• Robert Owen (Manager, Worldwide University Programme, Imagination),

• Nankyung Suh Cockerham (Academic lead from MOSIS)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm      Success in Writing Grants and Proposals (Diana Marculescu, CMU)

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm      Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm      Early Career Panel 

• Zhiru Zhang (Cornell)

• Ayse Cosku (Boston University)

• Andreas Gerstlauer (UT Austin)

• Yiyu Shi (Notre Dame) 

5:00 pm-5:30 pm    Special Issues, such as smaller school, diversity etc (Iris Bahar, Brown University)

5:30 pm - 5:45 pm  Closing Remarks

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm  Reception and Networking via DAC’s Evening Reception Event