With prior 12 years of teaching experience in VLSI related subjects and circuit design and simulation experience, she is currently working as a Application Engineer in Synopsys Inc. 

Shailja is a Research Scientist at IBM Research where she focuses on LLMs for Code, Code Explanation, Reasoning & Alignment. Her primary research focuses on applying AI to develop efficient, reliable, and transparent systems. Alongside, she works on AI for social Impact. She has a PhD from University of Waterloo and a PostDoc from New York University.

Steve Hoover is the founder of the Massachusetts startup, Redwood EDA. Steve holds a BS in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in computer science from the University of Illinois. He has extensive expertise in high-performance server CPU design, having contributed to multiple generations of Alpha microprocessors at DEC and Compaq as well as Itanium and Xeon server CPUs at Intel.

Over three decades successful international or inter-organization joint R&D partnership and management (ETHZ, EPFL, Motorola, Freescale, CSEM, EMM). GMC offers business strategies for custom SoC, ASIC, foundry services with focus on the device level parametrization for advanced analog/RF submicron and nano CMOS technologies.

Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in industry and higher education. Strong research professional skilled in Embedded Control, Robotics, Hardware In Loop (HIL) Simulation, Real-Time Systems , IoT, Machine Learning, Open-Source Software and Hardware development, Parallel Computing.