Professor Dan Jiao

Dr. Jiao has authored over 350 papers in refereed journals and international conferences. At Intel, she was responsible for a number of original algorithms in high-frequency VLSI CAD such as "Electromagnetic solutions for full-chip Analysis" (US patent No. 7,509,247). Many of her developments have been acknowledged as BKM (Best Known Method) CAD tools across Intel. Dr. Jiao was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to computational electromagnetics (Class of 2016). Her current research interests include computational electromagnetics, computational multiphysics, modeling and simulation of micro- and nano-scale integrated circuits, rapid heterogenous integration, advanced packaging, high-speed VLSI circuit design and analysis, high-performance VLSI CAD, applied electromagnetics, signal and power integrity, fast and high-capacity numerical methods, scattering and antenna analysis, and bio-electromagnetics.

Dr. Jiao was bestowed the 2022 Computational Electromagnetics Award from the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), the society's highest honor, for contributions to a new generation of fast and large-scale solvers in computational electromagnetics. She was selected as an IEEE MTT-Society Distinguished Microwave Lecturer in 2020. She was a recipient of Intel's 2019 Outstanding Researcher Award. She was the recipient of the 2013 S. A. Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. The S. A. Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award recognizes the BEST PAPER published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during the previous year. This award winning paper is titled "Explicit Time-Domain Finite-Element Method Stabilized for an Arbitrarily Large Time Step."

Dr. Jiao was among the 21 women faculty selected as the 2014-2015 Fellow of ELATE (Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering) at Drexel, a national leadership program for women in the academic STEM fields. She has been named a University Faculty Scholar since 2013. She was among the 85 engineers selected throughout the nation for the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (FOE). She was a recipient of Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award in 2010. Her paper, A Theoretically Rigorous Full-Wave Finite-Element-Based Solution of Maxwell's Equations from DC to High Frequencies, was one of the three finalists of the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging 2010 Best Paper Award. She received NSF CAREER Award in 2008. She was a DARPA Young Faculty Award finalist in 2006, and 2007 respectively (one of the 50 selected throughout the country). She received an ONR award through Young Investigator Program in 2006. She received the 2006 Jack and Cathie Kozik Faculty Start-up Award bestowed by the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. She was nominated by President of Purdue University for Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.

Dr. Jiao received Best Paper Award from 2004 Intel annual corporate-wide technology conference, Design and Test Technology Conference (DTTC), for her work on generic broadband model of high-speed circuits. In 2003, she won Intel Logic Technology Development (LTD) Divisional Achievement Award in recognition of her excellent work on the industry-leading BroadSpice modeling/simulation capability for designing high-speed microprocessors, packages, and circuit boards. She was also awarded the Intel Technology CAD (TCAD) Divisional Achievement Award for the development of innovative full-wave solvers for high frequency IC design. Her paper, A Novel Technique for Full-wave Modeling of Large-Scale Three-Dimensional High-Speed On/Off-chip Interconnect Structures, was ranked No. 1 among all the papers submitted to 2003 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices. In 2002, she was bestowed upon by Intel Components Research the prestigious Intel Hero Award (Intel-wide she was the tenth recipient) for the timely and accurate two- and three-dimensional full-wave simulations. She also won Intel LTD Team Quality Award for her outstanding contribution to the development of the measurement capability and simulation tools for high frequency on-chip cross-talk. She was the winner of the 2000 Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award, bestowed upon her by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which was awarded to the best graduate student researcher in the electromagnetics area.

Dr. Jiao has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques for the next term. She also served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and IEEE Trans. on Signal and Power Integrity. She served as the General Chair of the 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO), Boston, USA. She has served on the Technical Program Committees and taken various leadership roles in the ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (AP-S), the IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal and Power Integrity (EMC+SIPI), and many other conferences. She is the Director of the Rapid Heterogeneous Integration (Rapid-HI) Design Institute, an Elmore ECE Emerging Frontiers Center. She co-directs the Consortium for Electromagnetic Science and Technology cofunded by Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, and Ansys.