Dr. Tan was just elected as the Technical Program Committte (TPC) Chair for IEEE/ACM Asian South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) in 2021, which is to be held in Tokyo, Japan. This is an important position as ASPDAC is one of primary conferences in VLSI design and computed aided design area.

Dr. Tan's team published an invited paper in ASPDAC 18 on the fast EM acceleration technique. In this paper, Dr. Tan's team proposed a novel reservoir-based EM acceleration technique, which can lead to very fast EM failure without using traditional temperature or current based acceleration technique. As a result, the new technique can void the...