SystemX Alliance Newsletter - July 2025

Introducing the Explorer Membership Tier

SystemX recently launched the new Explorer Membership! Building on the success and strong industry recognition of our Associate and Full Membership tiers, SystemX offers a wide range of services and benefits beyond research collaboration.The newly introduced Explorer tier opens the door for a broader set of organizations—including startups, scale-ups, VCs, financial institutions, and government hubs—and focuses on non-research engagement, including:

Access to exclusive webinars, workshops, and events
Curated opportunities to connect with Stanford faculty, researchers, and students
Exposure to emerging innovations, with opportunities for dialogue and feedback
And more...

Learn more: https://systemx.stanford.edu/systemx-benefits-and-participation-levels

SystemX Alliance 2025 Spring Workshop Recap

On May 22, SystemX hosted its annual Spring Workshop at Stanford’s Alumni Center, drawing over 120 attendees from academia and industry for a vibrant day centered around the theme: “Designing Chips for AI with AI.” From in-depth discussions on AI-powered chip design to dynamic student poster sessions and engaging hallway conversations, the event showcased a full day of learning, collaboration, and innovation.The day kicked off with opening remarks from Ivo Bolsens, Executive Director of SystemX, followed by a keynote from Vivek Prasad (VP, NSTC/CHIPS Act), who highlighted national initiatives in design enablement and silicon aggregation. Industry leaders continued the momentum—Fergus Casey (Executive Director, Synopsys) shared insights on how AI/ML is advancing semiconductor design, efficiency and performance; Amit Gupta (Corporate VP, AMD) discussed FPGA architecture and AI/ML integration in FPGA-CAD tools; and Chuck Alpert (Fellow, Cadence) introduced agentic AI for Chip Design, driving a new era of chip design excellence.Stanford faculty brought deep technical perspectives to the stage:

Subhasish Mitra: ABCD: New G-QED Verification Unlocks AI-Boosted Chip Design
Priyanka Raina: Voyager: A High-Level Synthesis-Based Framework for Design Space Exploration and Generation of Neural Network Accelerators
Caroline Trippel: High Assurance Computer Architectures for/with AI
Thierry Tambe: Optimizing LLM Inference with 4-bit Mixed-Format Quantization and Heterogeneous Memories
Kunle Olukotun: Agentic AI Compilers for Specialized Architectures

The day concluded with a student poster session and networking reception, fostering direct engagement between students, faculty, and industry collaborators.A heartfelt thank you to all the speakers, attendees, and contributors who made this workshop a success—we’re proud to see the SystemX community continue to thrive at the intersection of academic research and real-world innovation.Recordings and slides can be accessed by logged-in members: systemx.stanford.edu/springworkshop-2025

Here are a few snapshots from the event:

SAVE THE DATE! SystemX Annual Conference 2025
October 13-15, 2025 | Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center | Stanford University

The SystemX Alliance 2025 Annual Conference will be held on October 13-15 at Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University. Our faculty and students will be presenting research funded by you, our members. More details and further information to come. We hope you will join us!

Please check back on this page for any updates: systemx.stanford.edu/fallconference-2025

SystemX is now on LinkedIn

We’re excited to announce the launch of the official Stanford SystemX Alliance LinkedIn page! Follow us to stay updated on research highlights, upcoming events, new programs, and community news.

We look forward to connecting with you and fostering deeper engagement across our ecosystem.

Learning Opportunity for Members

Through our new partnership with Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online Education (CGOE), SystemX members now receive discounted access to a wide range of professional and technical courses offered by Stanford Online. For more information: https://cgoe.stanford.edu/

Students & Faculty Awards/Recognitions

Young Suh Song (Pop group) receives the Knight-Hennessy Fellowship.
Wong group's (Fabia Farlin Athena) paper "Orthogonal VT Tuning for Oxide Semiconductor 2T Gain Cell enabled by Interface Dipole Engineering" was a technology highlight during the 2025 VLSI Symposium.
- This is a collaboration work among Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong group, Prof. Paul McIntyre group at Stanford University, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). This work is also supported by Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Crystal Nattoo (Pop group) received a Community Impact Award, which recognizes "graduate students who have enhanced the Stanford community through their exemplary leadership, creation of an event or program, or other unique campus contribution."
Prof. Simone D’Amico and Justin Kruger were recognized with the NASA Ames Honor Award for their contributions to the NASA Starling mission (satellite swarm launched in July 2023 and currently operational) as part of the Engineering, Operations and Experiment Team.
Justin Kruger (D'Amico group) received the ION Bradford W. Parkinson Award for his PhD dissertation titled: ”Flight Algorithms for Autonomous Tracking and Navigation of Distributed Space Systems Using Inter-Satellite Bearing Angles”. This award honors Dr. Bradford W. Parkinson’s contributions to the U.S. GPS and the satellite division of ION, recognizing outstanding graduate research in PNT and applications.
Walter Joshua Manuel (D'Amico group) received the 2025 Graduate Student Community Impact Award by the Stanford Alumni Association for exceptional engagement and contributions to the Stanford community.
Jeff Park (D'Amico group) received the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists by The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) for the paper entitled “Robust Multi-Task Learning and Online Refinement for Spacecraft Pose Estimation across Domain Gap” by Jeff Park, Simone D’Amico, in Advances in Space Research, Volume 73, Issue 11, 1 June 2024, Pages 5726-5740.
Isobel Douglas Porteous (D'Amico group) was awarded the William J. Perry Prize by CISAC for her honors thesis titled: Verifying the Outer Space Treaty's Nuclear Ban: Technical and Political Feasibility of In-Space Satellite Inspection: Stanford Digital Repository, 2025.
Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury received the 2025 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) Quantum Devices Award
Stanford NAV Lab won First Place in the NASA Lunar Autonomy Challenge (members: Adam Dai, Guillem Casadesus Vila, Asta Wu, Kaila Coimbra, Keidai Iiyama, Thomas Deng, Brian Wu, Alexandre Carlhammar, and Prof. Grace Gao)
Guillem Casadesus Vila won Best Paper Award in Track 4 at the IEEE Aerospace Conference for the following paper: Guillem Casadesus Vila and Grace Gao, Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Orbit Determination and Time Synchronization in Lunar Orbit, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2025.