Zhili Xiong, a Ph.D. student in Texas ECE, recently received the Best Paper Award at the 32nd IEEE International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) for her work on "A Data-Driven, Congestion-Aware and Open-Source Timing-Driven FPGA Placer Accelerated by GPUs."

Professors Lizy John and Jaydeep Kulkarni, along with PhD students Aman Arora, Tanmay Anand, Aatman Borda, Rishabh Sehgal, and Bagus Hanindhito, received the Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines.