BISON CAD

Integrated Circuit Design Automation & Hardware for Machine Learning @ NDSU

Led by Dr. Umamaheswara Rao Tida

Lab News & Announcements

Four Students Participated in Young Fellows Program at Design Automation Conference

June 2025

Congratulations to Yuma Ishimura, Ifedayo Akinfemisoye, Navya Goli and Tejaswi Dhandu!

NSF CAREER Award Received by Dr. Tida

February 2025

We are proud to announce that Dr. Umamaheswara Rao Tida has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award to support research on advanced CAD tools for Monolithic 3D ICs and Machine Learning hardware at NDSU.

NSF IRES Award for International Research Experience

June 2025

Dr. Tida received an NSF IRES grant with the role of Co-PI, supporting international research experiences in advanced CAD methodologies and Machine Learning hardware.

NSF Award for Future Manufacturing

March 2025

Dr. Tida received an NSF grant with the role of Co-PI to investigate novel, low-cost, viral-free manufacturing strategies for CAR T-cell therapies. This research focuses on developing distributed, mRNA-based methods to engineer Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells without viral gene transfer, aiming to reduce costs and improve safety for advanced cell-based cancer treatments.