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. |