Executive Members & Speaker Bios
  Riaz Haq
  Mohammad Aboobaker
  Safwan Shah
  Moin Ahmed
  Imran Qureshi
  Farid Durrani
  Idris Kothari
  M. Rashid Yousuf
  Rehan Jalil
  Muhammad R Hussain
  Rashid Ali Baig
  Ali Ahmed Minai
  Arif Mansouri
  Naveed Sherwani
  Ali Hasan Cemendtaur
  Sabahat Ashraf
  Rashad Ali
  Jaffer Hussain
  Amir-ul-Islam
  Syed Mazhar Ali
  Amer Haider
  Zulki Khan
  Tanweer Alam Mallick
  Akbar Ansari
  Ammar Hanafi
 
   
Naveed Sherwani
is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Open-Silicon. Dr. Sherwani brings over 19 years of experience in technical engineering and general management to his position as President and CEO of Open-Silicon. Prior to co-founding Open-Silicon, Dr. Sherwani 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. Prior to joining Intel, he worked as a consultant for various telecommunications and computer companies, mainly focusing on ASIC design flow and cell library design to improve time-to-market. He also served as a Professor at Western Michigan University, where his research concentrated on VLSI Physical Design Automation, combinatorics, and graph algorithms. Dr. Sherwani 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 3 books and over 100 articles on various aspects of Physical Design Automation and ASICs. In last 15 years, he has been a frequent speaker at DAC, ICCAD, International Conference on VLSI and other major conferences around the world. Dr. Sherwani received his Ph.D from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.