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DESIGN ENGINEERING DIVISION
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AWARDS
Design Automation Award
Technical Committee on Design
Automation
The award is given by the Technical
Committee on Design Automation
recognizes the sustained meritorious
contribution to research in design
automation.
Ram Sriram
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Biographical Description: Ram D. Sriram is currently the
chief of the Software and Systems Division in the Information
Technology Laboratory, Prior to that he was the group leader of
the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems
Integration Division at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, where he conductsed research on standards for
interoperability of computer-aided design systems. Before that
he was on the engineering faculty (1986-1994) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was
instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems
Laboratory. At MIT, Sriram initiated the MIT-DICE project, which
was one of the pioneering projects in collaborative engineering.
Sriram has co-authored or authored nearly 250 publications in
computer-aided engineering and health care informatics.
His design work at NIST focused on establishing a semanticallybased,
validated, product representation scheme as a standard
that supports seamless interoperability among current and next
generation computer-aided design systems (CAD), and that
supports Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) concepts and
software throughout the product’s lifecycle, from
conceptualization to disposal with a major emphasis on
sustainable manufacturing. Sriram’s work in this area has found
wide spread use in the product design community.
During his tenure at MIT, Sriram developed several new courses,
with significant impact on engineering education. His book
entitled “Intelligent Systems for Engineering” is an encyclopedic
volume on the use of artificial intelligence techniques to solving
engineering problems. The three volume series on artificial
intelligence applications to engineering design that he co-edited
will remain as a classic on artificial intelligence applications. MIT
also produced and marketed a 5 video series on object-oriented
systems with Sriram as the instructor.
Sriram was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for
AI in Engineering. He was the technical chair of the first and
second international conferences on the applications of artificial
intelligence for engineering. Sriram also serves on the editorial
board of several leading computer-aided engineering journals.
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In 1989, Sriram was awarded a Presidential Young Investigators
Award from the National Science Foundation, U.S.A. A paper he
co-authored with his student in the Journal of Computing in Civil
Engineering received the “best paper award” in 1995. A recent
paper he co-authored received the Journal of CAD’s “most cited
paper award” for 2011. Sriram is a Fellow of ASME, a Fellow of
AAAS, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member (life) of ACM, a
member of AAAI, and a member of AMIA. Sriram has a B.S.
from IIT, Madras, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Levent Burak Kara
Carnegie Mellon University
AWARDS AND MEMORIAMS
Design Automation Young
Investigator Award
Technical Committee on Design
Automation
The award is given to an outstanding
young investigator who is making
noteworthy contribution in the area
of design automation.
Biographical Description: Levent Burak Kara is an Assistant
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
Middle East Technical University (1998), and M.S (2000) and
Ph.D. (2005) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie
Mellon University. He is the founding director of Visual Design and
Engineering Laboratory. His research focuses on the
development of computational tools for human-centric geometric
modeling and design exploration, with primary applications to
industrial product design. His primary interests include computer
aided design, design automation, geometric modeling, pen
computing, virtual reality, and human–computer interaction. At
Carnegie Mellon, he teaches the Mechanical Engineering Senior
Capstone Design course and the graduate level AI and Machine
Learning for Engineering Design course. He received the NSF
Career Award in 2009, and was awarded the Professor of the
Year by the Mechanical Engineering senior class of 2010.