The Technical Program Committee is responsible for solicitation and selection of conference papers, plenary panels, and session chairs. As the organizers and reviewers of the technical content, the Technical Program Committee has primary responsibility for the equality of the DesignCon technical program. Candidates for the Technical Program Committee are proven technical contributors in the fields covered by DesignCon. Active participation by committee members ensures a high-quality, well-targeted, and timely program.
DesignCon 2008 Conference Chair
Terry Morris, HP Fellow, Hewlett-Packard
Terry Morris, HP Fellow, Hewlett-Packard
Maria Agoston, Principal Engineer, Tektronix
Rami Ahola, Global Technical Manager, Mentor Graphics
Robert Aitken, Fellow, ARM
John Andresakis, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Oak-Mitsui Technologies
Michael Annand, Interconnect Technologist, W. L. Gore & Associates
Tatsuya Arai, General Manager, High-Speed Interconnects, Hirose Electric
Bruce Archambeault, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Brian Bailey, Principal, Brian Bailey Consulting
Ramesh Banda, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, LSI Logic
Dana Bergey, Signal Integrity Manager, FCI
J. Bhasker, Architect, eSilicon Corporation
Ajay Bhatia, Director, Montalvo Systems
Tim Blackmore, Senior Staff Engineer, Infineon Technologies
Luis Boluna, Engineer, Cisco Systems
Ken Braund, Sales and Marketing Manager, Meritec
David Brunker, Technical Fellow, Molex
Andrew Byers, Senior Application Engineer, Ansoft
Sergio Camerlo, Director, Engineering, Redback Networks
Robert Carter, Senior Manager Business Development, Oak-Mitsui Technologies
Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Jinhua Chen, Consulting Design Engineer, EMC Corporation
Wheling Cheng, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems
Megan Chura, Agilent Technologies
Antonio Ciccomancini Scogna, Application Engineer, CST of America
Tom Cohen, Principal Development Engineer, Amphenol-TCS
Brad Cole, Co-Founder, Ultimetrix
John D'Ambrosia, Ethernet Ecosystem Architect, Force10 Networks
Jim DeLap, Application Engineer, Ansoft Corporation
Olivier Despaux, Senior Application Engineer, Xilinx
Suveer Dhamejani, Hewlett-Packard
Joseph Diepenbrock, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
James Drewniak, Professor, University of Missouri-Rolla
David Dunham, Electrical Engineering Manager, Molex
Mazlina Esa, Associate Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Jun Fan, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Rolla
Saverio Fazzari, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Tom Flaherty, Project Engineer, Corning Gilbert
Harry Foster, Principal Engineer, Mentor Graphics
Michael Fowler, Principal Strategic Marketing Engineer, Fairchild Semiconductor
Paul Franzon, Professor, North Carolina State University
John Grebenkemper, Consultant, TALI Consulting
Brett Grossman, Technologist and Senior Staff Engineer, Intel
Robert Haller, Hardware Architect, Enterasys
Gert Havermann, Signal Integrity Engineer, HARTING Electronics
Amir Hekmatpour, Senior Engineer, IBM
Richard Ho, D. E. Shaw Research LLC
Sachin Idgunji, ARM
Alfonso Iniguez, Lead Verification Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor
Karl Kachigan, Signal Integrity Program Manager, Agilent Technologies
Sunil Kakkar, Senior Staff Engineer-Manager, QUALCOMM
Isaac Kantorovich, Senior Hardware Engineer, Intel
Sunil Khatri, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Andrew Kim, Senior Systems Architect, Quellan
Ravi Kollipara, Senior Principal Engineer, Rambus
Brock LaMeres, Assistant Professor, Montana State University
Greg LeCheminant, Measurement Applications Specialist, Agilent Technologies
Mike Peng Li, Principal Architect/Distinguished Engineer, Altera
Christopher Loberg, Senior Marketing Manager, Tektronix
Vasanta Madduri, Technical Marketing Manager, National Semiconductor
Om Mandhana, Senior R&D Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor
Henri Maramis, Manager, Signal Integrity Engineering, Intel
Mark Marlett, Principal Design Engineer, LSI Logic
Daniel Martin, Senior Application Engineer, Catalytic
Greg Martin, Product Applications Engineer, Achronix Semiconductor
Andrew Martwick, Electromagnetics Engineer, Intel
Steven McKinney, Technical Marketing Engineer, Mentor Graphics
Herve Menager, SoC Architect, NXP Semiconductors
Jason Miller, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Ozgur Misman, Substrate Co-Design Manager, Amkor Technology
Bhyrav Mutnury, IBM
James Nadolny, Senior SI and EMI Engineer, Samtec
Alfred Neves, Senior Staff Engineer, Teraspeed Consulting
Istvan Novak, Senior Signal Integrity Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Tom Pitten, Vice President, Development Engineering, Amphenol-TCS
Andrew Piziali, Senior Product Engineer, Cadence Design Systems
Satish Premanathan, Principal Technical Consultant, Wipro
Jonah Probell, Independent Consultant
Peter Pupalaikis, Principal Technologist, LeCroy Corporation
David Quint, Master Engineer, Hewlett-Packard
Shafiq Rahman, Technical Staff Member, Hewlett-Packard
Suresh Rajgopal, Senior Principal Engineer, STMicroelectronics
Michael Resso, Business Development Manager, Agilent Technologies
Woong Hwan Ryu, Senior Staff Analog Engineer, Intel
John Sawdy, Signal Integrity Engineer, Meritec
Michael Schnecker, Product Manager, LeCroy
Christian Schuster, Professor, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
Hong Shi, Technical Lead, Altera
Kaijian Shi, Principal Consultant, Synopsys
Leena Singh, Verification Architect, QUALCOMM
Dima Smolyansky, Director, Tektronix
Michael Stahl, Design Technology Scientist, Hewlett-Packard
Michael Steinberger, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, SiSoft
Ransom Stephens, Writer, Physicist, Public Speaker, Ransom’s Notes
Suresh Subramaniam, Hardware Engineer, Redback Networks
Lars Thon, Independent
Peter Tomaszewski, Scientist, SI and Packaging, Force 10 Networks
Ken Umino, Design Services Consultant, Synopsys
Kumar Venkatramani, Executive Consultant, SoftJin Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
Michael Vrazel, Technical Director, Quellan
Min Wang, Senior Member of Technical Staff, MetaRAM
Kathy Werner, IP Strategy and Business Manager, Freescale Semiconductor
Todd Westerhoff, Vice President, Software Products, SiSoft
David Whipp, Senior Verification Engineer, NVIDIA
Larry Williams, Director of Business Development, Ansoft
Markus Witte, Signal Integrity Manager, HARTING Electronics
Mike Wondolowski, Principal Engineer, Zebra Technologies
Xiaodong (Luke) Wu, Engineer, Texas Instruments
Zhiping Yang, Principal Signal Integrity Engineer, Nuova Systems
Mobashar Yazdani, Manager-ASIC/ASSP Technology Center, Hewlett-Packard
Ping Yeung, Product Manager, Mentor Graphics
Arch Zaliznyak, Supervising Senior MTS, Altera
Iliya Zamek, Member Technical Staff, Altera
Fabrizio Zanella, Support Manager, CST of America
Jared Zerbe, Director of Engineering, Rambus
Jin Zhao, Sigrity, Inc.