VLSI Design Steering Committee Vishwani D. Agrawal Srimat T. Chakradhar Asoke K. Laha Yashwant K. Malaiya Biswadip Mitra P. Pal Chaudhuri Lalit. M. Patnaik Uday P. Phadke A. Prabhakar N. Ranganathan Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies,, va@research.bell-labs.com NEC,, chak@research.nj.nec.com Walker Interactive Systems, India, alaha@giasdlol.vsnl.net.in Colorado State University,, malaiya@cs.colostate.edu Texas Instruments,, beam@msg.ti.com Indian Institute of Technology -, India, ppc@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science, India, lalit@vigyan.iisc.emet.in Department of Electronics, India, phadke@xm.doe.emet.in Datanet Corp.,, India University of South Florida,, ranganat@babbage.csee.usj:edu 1996 Fellowship Recipients The Steering Committee awarded fellowship grants to 240 participants of the Ninth International Conference on VL,.?I Design,, India, Jani& 3-6, 1996. - Name Mohammed Fadle Abdulla Vijay Pratap Adusumilli Avinash Agarwal Gaurav Aggarwal Kamal Aggarwal Nitin Agrawal Sanjib Akuli Amshumanth Arak Ali Ganesh K. Andurkar S. Arvind B. Ravindra Babu Satish Bahu Tusar Kanti Bag Arun Balakrishnan Prashant Banchhor Tushar Bandhopadhyay Hrudananda Baral Anupam Basu Sudip Basu Swapan Kumar Basu Tapati Basu Chitrasena Bhat Subarna Bhattacharjee Subrata Bhattacharya Uttam Kumar Bhattacharya Biswadeep Biswas N.N. Biswas Affiliation Wipro Infotech Ltd. NIE Government College of Eng. S.J. College of Eng. Rutgers Univ. -New Brunswick Banaras Hindu Univ. Jadavpur Univeristy Indian Starisrical Inst. Location Varanasi Sponsor Texas Instr,-India xxv
Swagata Biswas Swarup.Bhunia Parbati Bose Sanjay Bose Parbati Bose Sindhu R. Chaitrauanda Dhruva Ranjan Chakrabarti Shyamali Chakrabarty Pinaki Chakraborty Pranab Chakraborty Susanta Chakraborty Mahesh Chand Pinaki Shankar Chanda K. Chandra Sekharaiah Sridhara N. Charyulu Moloy Kumar Chatterjee Anil K. Chaudhary Bhalchandra N. Chaudhuri Bikes Chaudhuri Jeet Chaudhuri Rajarshi Chaudhuri Pramit A. Chavda Niranjan N. Chiphmkar Ravi V. Chitloor Ju Dong Cho Shiva Kumar Dalal Abhijit Das Abhijit Das Abira Hazra Das Debesh Kumar Das Kamalendu Das Kaustubh Das Malay Kumar Das Nitai Sundar Das Rajish Das Samik Das Sandip Das Satyaki Das Sumana Das T. Datta Nilanjan Deb Sri Sakti DebBarma Sudhir K. Desai Manoj Dey Veeresh Dua Bilas Dutta Kaushik Dutta Paramartha Dutta K. Narasimhan Dwarakanath Sbibasbis Ganguly Srinivas Raghu Gatta Jayantb George Arijit Ghosh Soumen Ghosh Vincent Gomes K.N. Gopinath Ashish Gupta, Univ. of Kalyani Military College of EME Electronics R&D Centre of India Govt. Engineering College Manipal Inst. of Tech. J. C. College Sung Kyun Kwan Univ. North Bengal University Jadavpur University Indian inst. of Tech. University of North Bengal University Indian Insr. of Tech Delhi Inst. of Tech Tripura Universiry Regional College of Eng. Jawaharlal Nehru Technol, Univ. Warangal Secunderabad Manipal Korea Darjeiiing Darjeeling Agartala VISI Design 96 Bell Labs- TISL- India VISI Design 96 xxvi
Sumlt Gupta K.S. Gurumurthy Shankar Hariharan M.M. Hasan Suchismita Hazra B. Irudayaraj James Jacob Ajay Jain Praveen Kumar Jaini Niloy Kumar Jana T. Jebarajan Vasanth M.L. Jonnalagadda PJ. Joseph Amlt Kakkar Bichitra Kalita N. Kammukutty A. Kandasamy B. Karthik Suman Khanna Sunil P. Khatri Arun Khosla K. La1 Klshore Vamsi Krishna R. Krlshnakumar S.Y. Kulkarnl Anil Kumar Arun Kumar Jeetendra Kumar M. Rajith Kmnar R. Mohan Kumar S. Rakesh Kumar Sunil Kumar S. Senthil Kumaran Bhaktipada Kundu M.R. Lakshmisb M. Madhusudan A&ban Mahanti Sukanta Mahantl Abhishek Maheshwari Rajib Maitra Subhamoy Maitra Ananta Kumar Majhi Amlt Majumdar Arindam Majumdar Arundhati Majumdar Subhashish Majumder Ashis Kumar Mal Dalvlnder Singh Malhotra Manlta Bhairab Mandal Pradip Mandal Sudhanshu V. Mangrulkar Manjula Pramod Mehta Tejinderpal Singh Miglanl Subhasish Mitra Rajesh Motamarri TISL Univ. Motilal Nehru Reg. Eng. College Jorhat Engineering College Univ. of California Regional College of Eng. B.V.B. College of Eng. & Tech. JSC Jaa avpur Univ. Coimbatore Inst. of Tech. Tata Consultancy Services NE Regional Inst. of Sc. & Tech. Univ. of Roorkee HSC Regional Etzgineering College Allahabad Jorhat Berkeley Hubli Coimbatore Nirjuli Roorkee! Synopsys-India Wipro-Infotech-Indiu Wipro-Infotech-Indiu xxvii
Rajanikanta Mudi Indrajit Mukberjee K.V.V. Murthy P.V.R.L.N. Murthy S. Muthusamy Srinath R. Naidu Askok S. Nale J.U. Nambi Kartik Nanda S. Nandakishore N. Narasimhan Naren Narasimhan M. Lakshmi Narayana Prakash Narayanan A.R. Naseer U.C. Niranjan V.&S. Pakala Rajat Kumar Pal Vinayaka D. Pandit Vishnu A. Patankar Aditya Prakash Pathak Srikanta Patnaik Probhas Chandra Patra Ashwini Ramesh Patwardhan Sirsij Peshin Bh. R.M. Phaneendra Bulusu Ravi Prasad Pritam Bhusan Prasad K. Radha Krishna Anand Raghunathan Hariom Rai R.V. Raj R. Rajiv B. Ramachandra N.S. Ramakrishna O.B.V. Ramanaiah S. Ramanathan P. Srinivasa Rao T. Chiranjeevi Rao V.L. Narasimha Rao V. Sree Hari Rao Ashley Rasquinha N.S. Ravi T. Ravi K. Ravindranath K. Ravishankar Baidyanath Ray L. Bharat Ram Reddy M. Naresh Kumar Reddy Arobinda Roy Anmabha Roy Shibendra Kmuar Roy Subir K. Roy Debashis Saha Debashis Samanta R. Kausik Sankar Debashis Sarkar Birla Inst. of Tech. Mindware - PCL Export Unit Banaras Hindu Univ. B.N. College of Engineering P.S.G. College of Tech Birla Inst. of Tech and Science University of Cincinnati JNTU College of Engineering K.R.E.C. Manipal Inst. of Tech. Front-line Computers Univ. of Govt. Engineering College Max India Ltd. Princeton Univ. Indian Inst. Tech. Birla Inst. of Tech and Science Osmania Univ. CMC HEC Ltd. NE Regional Inst. of Sc. & Tech. Indian Inst. of Management Ranchi Bombay Varanasi Nagpur Coimbatore Cincinnati Surathkal Manipal Guntur Faridabad Princeton Bombay Madras Ranchi Nirjuli TISL-India VLSI Sot..of India... xxv111
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