About me
About me
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I am a Senior Staff R&D Engineer at Synopsys Inc. working with the Custom Design and Physical Verification Group. I received my PhD in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Prof. David Z. Pan @ UTDA research group.
I am a co-Investigator and AI Implementation Lead at Stroke Thrombectomy & Aneurysm Registry (STAR), working on developing data-driven decision-support systems complex clinical environments.
My research is mainly focused on machine learning and its applications in VLSI CAD, autonomous system validation, and medical data analytics.
I serve as the president of Kaffi, a nonprofit organization that aims to support the education of Lebanese students abroad.
News
News
05/2026: I will serve as a Technical Program Committee member @ ICCAD'26.
04/2025: Our patent "Circuit variation analysis using information sharing across different scenarios" is published.
07/2024: Our patent "Using surrogate netlists for variation analysis of process variations" is published.
05/2024: I will serve as a Technical Program Committee member @ MLCAD'24.
01/2024: I was promoted to Senior Staff R&D Engineer @ Synopsys.
11/2022: I will serve as a Technical Program Committee member @ DAC'23.
11/2022: My co-authored book chapter, "CAD for Analog/Mixed‐Signal Integrated Circuits," is published in Advances in Semiconductor Technologies: Selected Topics Beyond Conventional CMOS, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
10/2021: Our Work, "DREAMPlaceFPGA: an open-source analytical placer for large scale heterogeneous FPGAs using deep-learning toolkit," is accepted at IEEE ASPDAC 2022!
07/2021: Our Work, “ADAPT: An Adaptive Machine Learning Framework with Application to Lithography Hotspot Detection” is accepted at IEEE MLCAD 2021!
07/2021: My co-authored article "An Efficient Automatic Structure Design Method of Silicon on Insulator Lateral Power Device Considering RESURF Constraint" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
2020: Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Physical Design
2019: Best Paper Award Nomination, Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2014: High Distinction, American University of Beirut
Education
Education
B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2014
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2016
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2020
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