Faculty and Ph.D. Student win DesignCon Best Paper Award
Dr. Paul Franzon and recent computer engineering Ph.D. graduate, Priyank Kashyap, won the DesignCon 2023 Best Paper Award for their “Data-Driven PAM4 SerDes Modeling with Generative Adversarial Network” paper.
August 1, 2023 
Isabella Mormando
Dr. Paul Franzon and recent computer engineering Ph.D. graduate, Priyank Kashyap, won the DesignCon 2023 Best Paper Award for their “Data-Driven PAM4 SerDes Modeling with Generative Adversarial Network” paper. It was also authored by Yongjin Choi, Wenzhen (Shawn) Sun, Muhammad Saad Chughtai, and Chris Cheng.
For three days each year, DesignCon features high-speed communications and system design expositions in the heart of Silicon Valley. The conference is a place for industry professionals to share and learn about exciting new contributions to the engineering field.
DesignCon Best Paper Awards recognize outstanding contributions to the educational goals of the DesignCon program. Papers are judged both on the merits of the written document and on the quality of their presentation. The awards serve to acknowledge the authors who receive them as leading practitioners in semiconductor and electronic design. The awards also provide incentives to authors to produce high-quality DesignCon papers and present them in a lucid and compelling manner.
DesignCon Best Paper Awards recipients are selected through a two-step process. The first step is a review of the full-length papers accepted for the current year’s program. DesignCon Technical Program Committee members rank these papers based on quality, relevance, impact, originality, and lack of commercial content, which determines the finalists. While selection as a finalist for a DesignCon Best Paper Awards is a notable achievement in itself, winners are then chosen from the finalists based on the quality of their presentations as judged by attendee feedback collected during the conference.
The 2023 Best Paper Awards will be presented during the 2024 DesignCon conference, January 30 to February 1 in Santa Clara, CA!
