Karim Arabi

Speaker Biography:

• Karim Arabi is Vice President, Engineering at Qualcomm where he is responsible for leading DFT, EDA and Low Power Design of SoC devices across the company. Previously, he was professor of Electrical Engineering at ETS in Montreal and held key technical leadership positions at PMC Sierra and Cirrus Logic. Dr. Arabi was a founder of Opmaxx, Inc., an innovative startup in analog design and test automation, acquired by Credence. Dr. Arabi's main research interest includes analog and mixed-signal design, DFT, BIST, low power design, design methodology development and electronic design automation.He published more than 100 papers and holds several key patents pertaining to the design and manufacturing of SoC devices. Dr. Arabi served on the program committee and organizing committee of several international conferences and workshops. He is currently on the program committee of International Test Conference, Asian Test Symposium and Design Automation Conference and on the organizing committee of VLSI Test Symposium. He is also on the editorial board of JETTA as a regular editor. Karim received the Ph.D. degree in 1996 and the M.Sc. degree in 1993, all in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and the B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering in 1988 from Tehran Polytechnic.