ISQED'26 Conference At-a-Glance

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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	Plenary Session 1: (Track A- Nob Hill Room)
8:40am–9:00am	Introduction, Committee Recognitions, Best Paper Awards
9:00am-9:35am	Keynote: The Next Decade of Chip Design: Agentic AI and Autonomous Silicon Engineering Dr. Houman Homayoun - Professor, University of California, Davis
9:35am–10:10am

10:10am–10:20am	Break
10:20am–11:40am	Session 1A (Nob Hill Room) Emerging Transistors and Circuits	Session 1B (Russian Hill Room) Foundations of Cryptographic Hardware Security	Session 1C (Mt. Davidson Room) From Specifications to Silicon: Advanced Verification Across the Hardware Stack
11:40am-12:25pm	Lunch Break
12:25pm-13:25am	Embedded Tutorial 1 (Track A) Advanced Packaging: Current State and Looking Forward Presenter: Dr. William Lambert, AMD
13:25pm-13:30pm	Break
13:30pm-15:10pm	Session 2A (Nob Hill Room) AI and Machine Learning in Hardware Design	Session 2B (Russian Hill Room) Detection, Validation, and Reverse Engineering of Malicious Hardware	Session 2C (Mt. Davidson Room) AI & Machine Learning Acceleration – Architectures and Co-Design
15:10pm-15:15pm	Break
15:15pm-16:45pm	Panel Discussion - (Track A - Nob Hill Room) AI and Agentic EDA: Toward Fully Autonomous Chip Design

Thursday, April 9, 2026

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	Plenary Session 2: (Track A - Nob Hill Room)
8:45am–9:00am	Welcome
9:00am–9:35am	Keynote: Architecting the Next-generation Compute Platforms with Chiplets using Open Industry Standards Dr. Debendra Das Sharma - Senior Fellow and Chief I/O Architect, Intel

9:35am–9:40am	Break
9:40am-10:35am	Session PW1 (Nob Hill Room, Track A) Short Presentation & WIP Session 1	Session PW2 (Russian Hill Room, Track B) Short Presentation & WIP Session 2	Session PW3 (Mt. Davidson Room, Track C) Short Presentation & WIP Session 3
10:35am-10:45am	Break
10:45am–12:25pm	Session 3A (Nob Hill Room) Advanced Circuit Modeling and Analysis	Session 3B (Russian Hill Room) NN Acceleration & Dataflow Optimization	Session 3C (Mt. Davidson Room) Security for AI and AI for Security
12:25pm-13:05	Lunch Break
13:05pm-14:05pm	Embedded Tutorial 2 (Track A - Nob Hill Room) When Quantum Computing Meets Quantum Sensing: End-to-End Design Principles and Applications Presenter: Prof. Jianqing Liu, NC State University
14:05pm-14:10pm	Break
14:10pm-15:50pm	Session 4A (Nob Hill Room) Innovative Design Methodologies and Frameworks	Session 4B (Russian Hill Room) Fault, Memory, and Physical Attacks on Hardware Systems	Session 4C (Mt. Davidson Room) Neuromorphic Computing

Friday, April 10, 2026

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8:40am-10:20am	Session 5A (Nob Hill Room) Quantum and memory technology and circuits	Session 5B (Russian Hill Room) Memory Systems, Approximate Computing, and System-Level Optimization	Session 5C (Mt. Davidson Room) Neuromorphic and Approximate Computing Hardware for Next-Generation AI
10:20am-10:30am	Break
10:30am–12:10pm	Session 6A (Nob Hill Room) Timing and Placement Optimization Techniques	Session 6B (Russian Hill Room) Security and Robustness of Machine Learning Hardware	Session 6C (Mt. Davidson Room) Emerging AI workloads on NPUs
12:10pm-12:55	Lunch Break
12:55pm-14:35pm	Session 7A (Nob Hill Room) Hyperdimensional, Neuromorphic, and Robust Cognitive Computing Hardware	Session 7B (Russian Hill Room) System-Level and Supply-Chain Security for Trusted Computing	Session 7C (Mt. Davidson Room) EdgeAI and Applications

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