The Speakers

Mohamed Kassem is the cofounder and CTO of efabless corporation. Mohamed held several technical and global leadership positions within Texas Instruments’ Wireless Business Unit. He led the first development of 45nm, 28nm analog & mixed-signal IP functions for wireless applications processors. Mohamed holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Tim Edwards has been designing analog VLSI circuits and systems and developing open-source EDA tools for many years, from the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (1999-2003) to the startup company MultiGiG (bought by Analog Devices) (2004-2015), to his current job at efabless dot com (2016-present). He operates the website opencircuitdesign dot com.

Manar Abdelatty is a first year PhD student in the computer engineering department at Brown University. Her research interest includes embedded systems and development of electronic design automation software. Abdelatty has a bachelor’s degree from Computer Engineering Department, The American University in Cairo (2020). Following her graduation, Abdelatty joined Efabless as an EDA Engineer where she worked on developing open-source ASIC.

Nada Badawy is a computer engineer, graduated from AUC Spring 22. She is working as a graduate research assistant for AUC EDA group. She is Interested in the Open Source Hardware development from designing till hardening including ASIC design and developing hardware components and verification and validation techniques.