Prof. Ignatius Bezzam holds a PhD from Santa Clara University of California, an MSEE also from California, USA and a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Madras (1983). He holds several key patents in Analog Mixed Signal Design Integrated Circuit design. He has publications in top international conferences like ISSCC and ESSCIRC and journals like TCAS.

With 33 years of IC design experience in the global VLSI industry, Dr. Bezzam leads in the development of nano meter system-on-chip (SoC) analog and mixed signal intellectual properties (IP) solutions for worldwide applications in the mobile, PC, consumer electronics and communications markets. He has a successful career record at major companies like National Semiconductor, Maxim Integrated Products, Volterra Semiconductor, Integrated Circuit Systems, Toshiba, Raytheon (Fairchild) and Altierre, USA. He was the starting Member of Technical Staff at Semiconductor Complex Ltd. Chandigarh and CDAC in Pune. He was a Research Scholar as member of INFN at ICTP Trieste, Italy and at TIFR Bombay. Recently he was involved in the development of the fasted SerDes reported on 16nm FinFET technology at 40Gbps.

With deep dives into industry, research and academia, Dr. Bezzam is unmatched in engineering fundamental zero-to-one changes in the ecosystem.

Dr. Bezzam is the principal founder of the Rezonent in Silicon Valleys in San Francisco Bay Area and Bangalore. Prof. Bezzam teaches EE Grad & Undergrad courses in advanced Analog Digital Integrated Circuits at Santa Clara University, California. He has been Visiting Professor at IITM Chennai, IIT Palakkad, San Jose State University, Government Engineering College Thrissur and Jyothi Engineering College among others.

Laura has more than 25 years of international experience in the development of high fidelity simulation tools, from proof of concept to shippable product. She joined Weidlinger Applied Science - Thornton Tomasetti, the division that originally developed the Flex family of software products in 1991.

At Weidlinger and PZFlex she has worked and overseen the development of scientific programs and their GUI frontends. This includes the implementation of ray tracing/geophysical inversion programs, parallel pseudospectral algorithms for acoustic wave propagation and optimization techniques with direct application to NDE, seismic survey and transducer design.

At PZFlex, she makes the necessary hardware, tools and software recommendations to enable the product development cycle with a focus in performance and quality control.

Prior to this, she worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Europe and the United Nations Development building introducing software resources to Scientists, Economists and the Academic community.

Laura brings changes into the product architecture as customer requirements, market conditions and technology evolve. She received her Computer Science degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.