Jason Cong, distinguished chancellor’s professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, received the 2019 Achievement Award from the Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California. The association’s mission is to provide career and educational enhancement opportunities, technical exchange, fellowship and community service for Chinese-American engineers and scientists.

Cong’s research interests include electronic design automation, energy-efficient computing, customized computing for big-data applications and highly scalable algorithms. He has published more than 400 research papers in these areas, winning 12 best paper awards and three 10-year retrospective most influential paper awards.