VLSI DESIGN CONFERENCE STEERING COMMITTEE STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Vishwani D. Agrawal Auburn University, USA vagrawal@eng.auburn.edu GENERAL CHAIRS Partha Pratim Das Interra Systems, India ppd@interrasystems.com Sandip Kundu Intel Corporation, USA sandip.kundu@intel.com PROGRAM CHAIRS Susmita Sur-Kolay Indian Statistical Institute, India ssk@isical.ac.in Kaushik Roy Purdue University, USA kaushik@ecn.purdue.edu ORGANIZING CHAIR Rana Dattagupta Jadavpur University, India rdg@ieee.org TUTORIAL CHAIRS Parthasarathi Dasgupta IIM, Calcutta, India partha@iimcal.ac.in Krishnendu Chakrabarty Duke Unviersity, USA krish@ee.duke.edu SPECIAL SESSION & PANEL CHAIRS Debesh K. Das Jadavpur University, India debeshd@hotmail.com Pallab Dasgupta IIT Kharagpur, India pallab@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in FINANCE CHAIR Nand G. Chattopadhyay Interra Systems India nand@interrasystems.com EXHIBITS & SPONSORSHIP CHAIR C. P. Ravikumar TI, Bangalore,India ravikumar@ti.com Partha Roy National Semiconductor partha.ray@nsc.com INDUSTRY FORUM CHAIRS Sudipta Bhawmik Agere Systems, USA bhawmik@agere.com Pradip Dutta Synopsys, Bangalore,India pradip.dutta@synopsys.com PUBLICATION CHAIRS Srimat Chakradhar NEC, USA chak@nec-labs.com FELLOWSHIP CHAIR Susanta Sen University of calcutta, Kolkata, India susanta@inraphel.ernet.in DESIGN CONTEST CHAIR Raj Sekhar Mitra TI, Bangalore, India rsm@ti.com Biplab Sikdar Bengal Engg. College, India biplab@becs.ac.in PUBLICITY CHAIRS Susanta Chakraborty Kalyani University, India susanta_chak@hotmail.com Kewal Saluja U. Wisconsin saluja@engr.wisc.edu Atsushi Takahashi Tokyo Inst. of Tech. atushi@lab.ss.titech.ac.jp Paul Molitor U. Halle, Germany molitor@informatik.uni-halle.de ACM/SIGDA LIAISON Sharad Seth University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA seth@cse.unl.edu IEEE LIAISON N. Ranganathan Univ. of South Florida, USA ranganat@csee.usf.edu VSI LIAISON Biswadeep Mitra TI, Bangalore, India bmitra@ti.com