Brisk, P

Chakraborty, S

Coelho, C

Gamatie, A

Ghosh, S

Jiao, X

English

Brisk, Philip

Chakraborty, Suman

Coelho, Claudionor

Gamatie, Abdoulaye

Ghosh, Swaroop

Jiao, Xun

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UC RiversideUC Riverside Previously Published WorksTitleTCAD EIC Message: February 2019Permalinkhttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rt5q6ftJournalIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 38(2)ISSN0278-0070AuthorsBrisk, PhilipChakraborty, SumanCoelho, Claudionoret al.Publication Date2019DOI10.1109/tcad.2018.2890315 Peer reviewedeScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital LibraryUniversity of CaliforniaIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, VOL. 38, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2019 197TCAD EIC Message: February 2019AS WE close out the year 2018, it is time to reflectback a number of milestones achieved throughout theyear. The transition to the new EIC and team included a 50-member editorial board with 19 new members selected afteran extensive round of open call for editorial board nomina-tions. While, this was a reduction in the editorial board from66 members previously, the response time remained steadyat about two months from submission to first decision. As ofthis writing in December, we received 469 new manuscripts aswell as 371 revised manuscripts in 2018. The top two depart-ments with substantial lead over the rest were “Modeling andSimulation” and “Emerging Technologies and Applications.”The geographic distribution of authors of accepted paperscontinues to shift from Region 1–6 (USA) to Region 10(Asia/Pacific). Table I shows these trends with nearly half thepublished authors from Asia/Pacific region, mainly China andIndia.Table II shows submission trends over the years that remainsteady at 800–900 manuscripts reviewed every year. Of the710 decisions made over 2018, the average time to first deci-sion was 62 days with all departments below 60 days, exceptfor a special issue (on Physical Design) which ironically tooknearly twice the average. Average reviewer turn around is onemonth, a week shorter in case of revisions. Average time tofinal decision was 95 days.Looking across the years, the average time to decision ispretty consistent at about two months. Since a vast majorityof the papers go through one round of revision, on an average,a manuscript is accepted in about four months. The publica-tion in print, however, is quite variable driven by page budgets,logistics of page charges, etc. We publish about 16 regularpapers per issue with a backlog that currently stands at over150 papers. This backlog adds to the paper appearance, nearly16 months since the paper was submitted. However, majorityof our readership is online, via Xplore. Indeed, the print sub-scribers for IEEE TCAD and for most publications have beendeclining for years, it currently stands below 200 subscribers.That begs the question if we are due for restructuring ourpublications to perhaps an online-only publication. While thatdebate will not be settled in these pages, a discussion of alter-natives can be found in a talk at a CEDA event I gave earlierthis year (https://goo.gl/xh1aLh).In the meantime, we do have a number of near termchallenges and opportunities to ensure continued successof IEEE TCAD to ensure its continue rise in its impactand timeliness of the topical areas. First, there is now anincreased emphasis on verifiability and repeatability of pub-lished results. We strongly encourage authors to make use ofDigital Object Identifier 10.1109/TCAD.2018.2890315TABLE IGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS OF PUBLISHEDPAPERS (PERCENTAGES)TABLE IIIEEE TCAD SUBMISSIONS THROUGH THE YEARSsupplemental materials that can be submitted including useof Code Ocean to provide meaningful contributions to thetechnologies represented in IEEE TCAD scope areas.This is also a reminder to our editorial board membersto step up to a role that is more than serving as a refereeamong competing reviewer opinions. Indeed, they must exer-cise judgement and explain to our authors the basis behind thedecisions being made. At the same time, we are guided strictlyby the well-reasoned policies set by the IEEE PublicationsBoard that include minimum of two independent reviewsfor any decision (including preliminary administrative recom-mendations) that depends upon the evaluation of the contentsubmitted. More significantly, editors are strictly forbiddenfrom influencing or editing any reviewer feedback. These arecommon practices of good editorial operations and we willcontinue to observe them.It is my pleasure to announce the following additions to theeditorial board selected from the open solicitation we ran inthe Fall of 2018.Philip BriskUniversity of California at RiversideRiverside, CA, USAMicrofluidics, FPGASuman ChakrabortyIndian Institute of Technology KharagpurKharagpur, IndiaMicrofluidics0278-0070 c© 2018 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission.See http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/index.html for more information.198 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, VOL. 38, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2019Claudionor CoelhoGoogleMountain View, CA, USAAccelerated Machine LearningAbdoulaye GamatieLIRMMMontpellier, FranceEmbedded SystemsSwaroop GhoshPenn State UniversityState College, PA, USAEmbedded SecurityXun JiaoVillanova UniversityVillanova, PA, USAApproximate ComputingFinally, I would like to express our great appreciation tomy editorial board, especially Dr. X. Li, the Deputy EIC, forhis dedicated efforts and strong support. I am very thankfulto S. Dailey, the corresponding editor, who has provided out-standing services to handle all administrative tasks on a timelymanner. I wish to thank all authors, reviewers, readers, edi-tors, IEEE staff members, and IEEE CEDA leaders for theircontinuous support over many years.

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