Technical Advisory Board
Mark McDermott is principal and general partner in the Silicon Web
Group and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas. Mark
received his MSEE from the University of Texas and has since co-founded
six companies, led engineering teams in the development of PowerPC processors
and Intel x86 processors, and been granted 19 patents in microprocessor
design and test. He has served as CEO of DynaFlow Computing, VP engineering
and co-founder of Somerset Embedded Technologies, VP engineering and
co-founder of VisionFlow, general manager and director of the Texas
Development Center for Intel Corporation, director of the PowerPC Somerset
Design Center, and director of the Austin Design Center for Cyrix.
David Z. Pan is assistant professor and director of the University
of Texas Design Automation Laboratory in Austin. He received his Ph.D. in
computer science from UCLA. Before going to UT, he was a research staff
member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His research interests
include nanometer physical CAD, design for manufacturability (DFM),
variation-tolerant designs, novel circuitry and CAD for low power, and
vertical integration of architecture, circuit and technology. He has
served in the program committees of many major conferences, including
ICCAD, DATE, ASPDAC, ISPD, ISQED, and ISCAS. He has received numerous
awards, including the SRC Inventor Recognition Award in 2000 and the IBM
Faculty Award in 2004 and 2005.
Riko Radojcic is a consultant to semiconductor and EDA companies
who specializes in the integration of semiconductor process and design
considerations. Riko received his PhD from University of Salford, UK,
and has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
He served in management roles for PDF Solutions, Tality and Cadence,
specializing in design technology integration and process characterization
and modeling. He has also held management and engineering positions with
Unisys, Burroughs, and Ferranti Electronics.
Naveed Sherwani, PhD., has over 19 years experience in technical
engineering and general management. Prior to founding Open-Silicon, he
was the founder and general manager of Intel Microelectronics Services,
where he led efforts to promote the use of disciplined ASIC methodologies
to improve design efficiency and time-to-market. Naveed co-architected
the Intel microprocessor design methodology and environment that has
been used in various leading microprocessors. Naveed has served as a
professor at Western Michigan University, where his research concentrated
on VLSI Physical Design Automation, combinatorics, and graph algorithms.
Naveed is the author of the main textbook on physical design, which is
widely used at major universities around the world. In addition, he has
authored or co-authored various books and articles on physical design
automation and ASICs and has been a frequent speaker at international
technical conferences around the world. Naveed received his PhD from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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