Louise Trevillyan has been awarded the 9th Annual Marie R. Pistilli Award for Advancement of Women in EDA. Ms. Trevillyan is a Research Staff Member in the Design Automation Department of IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, and will be presented with the awarded during the Workshop for Women in Design Automation on June 9th at a ceremony in the Anaheim Convention Center in California. 

Ms. Trevillyan’s long career in the field of EDA has seen her work with IBM since 1974. In 1978 she joined the research team at the T.J. Watson Research Center and has held such roles with IBM in the intervening 30 years as Technical Assistant to the Director of EDA, Manager of Logic Synthesis, and Research Manager of High-Level Synthesis, Performance Analysis Tools and Verification.

An IEEE Fellow since 1996, Trevillyan’s work has been featured in such publications as “The Best of ICCAD: 20 Years of Excellence in Computer-Aided Design” and the 25th Anniversary edition of the “IBM Journal of Research and Development.” She spent six years as a member of the Board of Oversight for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and served as both General Chair and Technical Program Committee Chair for ICCAD (The International Conference on Computer-Aided Design).

She is an Emeritus Member of the IBM Academy of Technology and has a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Michigan.

By Síle Mc Mahon