Members of the Technical Advisory Board (TAB)

Alan J. Hu

Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia

Alan has concentrated his research on automated, practical techniques for formal verification. He has served on the program committees of all major CAD and formal verification conferences, and chaired or co-chaired CAV (1998), HLDVT (2003), and FMCAD (2004). He was also a Technical Working Group Key Contributor on the 2001 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, and sits on Jasper Design Automation's TAB. He received Bachelor of Science and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.

Andrew B. Kahng

Professor of CSE and ECE at UC San Diego, Calif., and previously co-founder and CTO at Blaze DFM

Award-winning publisher of more than 300 design-related papers, Andres was also Founding General Chair of the International Symposium on Physical Design, and technical program co-chair of the Design Automation Conferences (2004, 2005), he also has chaired the U.S. and international working groups for Design technology for the ITRS roadmap, and co-chaired the Design ITWG. He has been an executive committee member of the MARCO Gigascale Systems Research Center since its inception in 1998. He holds an A.B. degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from UC San Diego.

Grant Martin

Chief Scientist at Tensilica, Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.

Grant previously worked at Burroughs, Nortel/BNR, and Cadence Design Systems. Given his interest in system-level design, IP-based design of system-on-chip, platform-based design, and embedded software, he is co-author or co-editor of nine books dealing with SoC design, SystemC, UML, modeling, EDA for integrated circuits and system-level design/ESL. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Henry Chang

Co-founder of Designer's Guide Consulting, Inc.

Henry previously was at Cadence Design Systems, Micro Linear and GE Lighting. Author of three books, he holds 10 U.S. patents, has participated in numerous conferences, and is on the steering committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an Sc.B. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.

Jan Rabaey, Donald O. Pederson

Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley

Jan also serves as scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), and director of the MARCO GigaScale Systems Research Center (GSRC). Previously, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium. An IEEE Fellow, Jan serves on several technical advisory boards and research institutes. He received EE and Ph.D. degrees in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Steven E. Schultz

President and CEO of Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc.

Steve is at the helm of the worldwide consortium of semiconductor and software companies chartered to develop EDA standards. Steve was previously at BOPS Inc. as well as Texas Instruments. He has been president of VHDL International, co-chairman of Accellera, and chair of the VITAL and SLDL/Rosetta standards initiatives, and of the Semiconductor Research Corporation's TAB. Author of 150+ EDA and design articles, he was a founding editor of Integrated Systems Design magazine and has served on numerous Boards. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas.