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Bob Dahlberg has over 20 years of semiconductor and software industry experience, primarily in bringing new technologies to market. Early in his career he was Field Marketing Manager at Intel, responsible for securing design wins for digital telephony, digital signal processing, silicon foundry, and Ethernet products. In 1988, Bob began his twelve-year career at Synopsys in Marketing, by launching and evangelizing Synopsys's pre-revenue product. Two years later, as Sales Director for Japan/Asia, he grew the region contribution to 24% of the corporate total. In 1994, he became GM of the Service Division, a $100 million Synopsys business unit, and in 1998 he became Vice President of Business Development, where he completed four acquisitions and established the Synopsys Venture Fund which made 13 investments in private companies during a 3- year period. In 2001, bitten by the start up bug, he joined another design automation software company, ReShape, Inc., as Vice President of Business Development where he contributed to raising $24 million in venture capital.
Jack Dongarra holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee and holds the title of Distinguished Research Staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics Schools at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. More Info >>
Kurt Keutzer is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and Associate Director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center (GSRC). Prior to returning to academia at Berkeley, Kurt was Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Research at Synopsys. Kurt is a fellow of the IEEE, and has coauthored 2 books on logic synthesis and hardware design.
Heinrich Meyr is currently at Aachen University of Technology serving as both a professor of electrical engineering and co-director of the institute for integrated signal processing systems (ISS) involved in the analysis and design of complex signal processing systems for communication applications. Heinrich was the founder of CADIS GmbH (acquired in 1993 by Synopsys, Mountain View, CA) and LISA Tek. (acquired in February 2003 by CoWare). He now holds the position of Chief Scientist at CoWare and serves on its board of directors. Heinrich has published numerous IEEE papers, two books, and holds many patents. He was a visiting scholar at Berkley in the spring of 1998. In 2000 he received the prestigious Vodafone Innovation Prize.
Ravi Subramanian has been closely involved with the wireless communications and DSP industries for fifteen years, currently as the President and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. In 1998, Ravi was co-founder of Morphics Technology where he led the development of programmable multi-mode baseband ASSPs for CDMA/WCDMA applications, eventually becoming President. Before Morphics, Ravi was with Synopsys where he held marketing and business-line responsibilities. Ravi was with AT&T Bell Laboratories where he was a key member of the team that developed the world's first merchant chipset for GSM digital cellular applications. Ravi has authored over 25 refereed publications, and is listed as an inventor or co-inventor on 8 issued patents. Ravi received his BSEE from the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Christopher Thomas is a founder and CTO of Symwave, Inc, and has over 12 years of experience and leadership in the semiconductor industry with 16 patents issued or pending. Mr. Thomas worked for Conexant Systems in the Digital Infotainment Division, focusing on Audio and Video products for the PC and set-top box market, and in Motorola's Core Technology Group, developing wireless baseband ICs for handset, pager, and Bluetooth products.
Steven D. White has founded two successful EDA companies. In 1987, Steve co-founded Logic Modeling Systems and served as its VP/general manager. Logic Modeling Systems was acquired by Synopsys in 1992, where Steve served as vice president of design verification. In 1996 Steve was a founder, president and CEO of 0-In Design Automation. In September 2004, 0-In was acquired by Mentor Graphics, where Steve now serves as general manager of functional verification. Steve holds a B.A. from Michigan State University.
Curt Widdoes is widely recognized as a pioneer of the EDA industry. He has founded three successful EDA companies. In 1981, he founded Valid Logic Systems and started the CAE industry. In 1987, he founded Logic Modeling Systems, which was later acquired by Synopsys. In 1996, he co-founded 0-In Design Automation, which pioneered assertion-based verification for the design of integrated circuits. In 2004, 0-In was acquired by Mentor Graphics Corporation, where Dr. Widdoes now serves as Chief Engineering Scientist. Curt holds a B.S. in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. He holds twelve U.S. patents in EDA and is an IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award recipient.