Dr Vivek Chickermane is a Senior Director for R&D at Siemens EDA. He has over 25 years of R&D experience at Siemens, Cadence, and IBM in the areas of Design-for-Test, Logic Synthesis and Silicon Lifecycle Management. Dr Chickermane is an Associate Editor of IEEE Design & Test, a member of the program committee of IEEE Int Test Conference,  and has over 100 published papers and 65 US patents. He has a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an M.S and Ph.D in Computer Engineering from the Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.