The International Test Conference has announced that Dr. Karim Arabi will be the keynote speaker at the ITC Opening Plenary Session on Tuesday October 6, at 9 a.m. in Anaheim, CA. The title of his keynote speech will be “Brain-inspired Computing.” The talk will discuss machine learning and how it is impacting next-generation SoC architectures to enable our devices be smarter, anticipate our needs, and share our perception of the world so we can interact with them more naturally.
Dr. Arabi is vice president of engineering at Qualcomm where he is responsible for research and development in ASIC and new product development. Previously, he was VP, engineering and technology at Dialog Semiconductor, responsible for driving overall technology and new-product development. He also held technical positions at PMC Sierra and Cirrus Logic and was cofounder of Opmaxx, an innovative startup in analog design, test and, automation.
Dr. Arabi obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal, Canada, and his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic. He is interested in technology development for mobile computing and all aspects of mobile SoC design and development including low power design, modem, SoC and CPU architectures, mixed-signal and RFIC design, PMIC design, and semiconductor technology. Dr. Arabi has published more than 100 papers and holds several patents covering key SoC design technologies.
