TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal

This award is presented for outstanding technical contributions that have made a fundamental impact on test technology. The TTTC Lifetime Contribution Award is to be granted periodically by TTTC and presented at major TTTC events.

Nomination

Contact the TTTC Lifetime Awards Committee Chair Yervant ZORIAN

Past recipients

NameYearLocation
Edward B. EICHELBERGER2000 
Alex D’ARBELOFF2001 
Edward J. McCluskey2002 
Joachim Mucha2003 
Rod Tulloss2004ITC 2004
Paul Bardell2006 
Jack H. Arabian2007 
Matthew Mahoney2008 
Thomas W. Williams2010 
Melvin Breuer2011 
Vishwani D. Agrawal2012 
John P. Hayes2013 
W.P. Maly2014ITC 2014
Vinod K. Agarwal2015ITC 2015
Janak Patel2016ITC 2016
Bernard Courtois2017ITC 2017
Jacob Abraham2017ITC 2017
Bernd Koenemann2018ETS 2018
Sudhakar Reddy2018ITC 2018
M. Ray Mercer2019ITC 2019
Hideo Fujiwara2020ITC 2020
Joan Figueras2021ETS 2021
Michael Nicolaidis2021ITC 2021
Yervant Zorian2022ITC 2022
Magdy Abadir2023ITC 2023

Upcoming conferences and symposia

IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) 2026
Submission deadline: December 5, 2025
Notification: January 24, 2026
Camera-ready upload: February 28, 2026
Conference: April 27-29, 2026

IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS) 2026
Submission of title, abstract, authors: 15 December 2025
Full paper submission: 12 January 2026
Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2026
Camera-ready manuscript: Deadline: 22 March 2026
Conference: May 25-29, 2026

IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS) 2026

Submission of title, abstract, and authors: March 1, 2026
Final Paper Submission: March 8, 2026
Author Notification: April 12, 2026
Conference Dates: July 1 – 3, 2026

International Test Conference (ITC) 2026
Paper title/abstract due: March 20, 2026
Paper final PDF due: April 24, 2026
Author notification: June 19, 2026
Conference Dates: October 11 to 16, 2026

IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFTS) 2026
Title and abstract submissions April 24th, 2026
Full paper submissions May 1st, 2026
Notification July 10th, 2026
Camera ready and author’s registration July 24th, 2026