Speakers

Dr. Rob Aitken

Rob Aitken is a Distinguished Architect and leads the Office of Technology Strategy at Synopsys, where he is looking into future technical opportunities for the company, including AI/ML, security, and next generation design methodology. Prior to Synopsys, he was an Arm Fellow responsible for technology direction at Arm Research. He was involved in early efforts in design-technology co-optimization, design-for-test/reliability/manufacturability, statistical process variation, emerging memory technology, and secure design for the IoT. He has worked on 15+ Moore's law nodes, holds 50+ US patents and has published over 100 technical papers on a wide range of topics. Prior to Arm, he worked at Artisan, Agilent and HP. He holds a Ph.D. from McGill University in Canada. Dr. Aitken is an IEEE Fellow, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and serves on a number of conference and workshop committees.