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Sarmad Khemmoro is an EDA and Electronic System Design veteran. He has been working with the Automotive, Aerospace/Defense, and Telecom/Consumer industries for the last 26 years on Electrical, Electronics, and Embedded system design and simulation. For the last 23 years, he has been with Mentor/Siemens as Applications Engineer and Applications Engineering manager. Before that, Sarmad worked as a TRW Automotive Electronics consultant to introduce and deploy hardware design tools and simulation technologies. He has a bachelor of science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Baghdad and an MSEE from the University of Detroit Mercy.

Dr. C.J. Reddy | Altair 美国电磁业务发展副总裁 Dr. Reddy was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Visiting Fellowship to work at Communications Research Center in Ottawa during 1991-1993 and was awarded the US National Research Council (NRC) Resident Research Associateship in 1993 to work at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. While conducting research at NASA Langley, he developed various computational codes for electromagnetics and received a Certificate of Recognition from NASA for development of a hybrid Finite Element Method/Method of Moments/Geometrical Theory of Diffraction code for cavity backed aperture antenna analysis. He also worked as Research Professor at Hampton University from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Reddy was the President of Applied EM, Inc (2000-2017) where he led several Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects for the DoD and NASA. He was also the President of EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc (2002-2014) and led the marketing of the EM Simulation tool, Feko in North America. EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc was acquired by Altair in 2014.
Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACES (Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society) and a Fellow of AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association). Dr. Reddy is a co-author of the book, “Antenna Analysis and Design Using FEKO Electromagnetic Simulation Software,” published in June 2014 by SciTech Publishing (now part of IET). Dr. Reddy is elected as a member of AMTA Board of Directors for a three-year term starting Jan 2020 and served as the Technical Coordinator for AMTA 2020 and AMTA 2021 Conferences as well as the President in 2022 and now he is serving as the immediate Past President of AMTA. Dr. Reddy is also serving on the ACES Board of Directors and is currently the Vice President of ACES. Dr. Reddy is serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Antennas of Propagation and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He also serves as the Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Young Professionals Committee and got elected to AP-S AdCom to serve a three-year term 2023-2025.

Dwight recently held the title of Manager of Electrical Engineering, Product Development with APTIV LPC, Infotainment and User Experience Product Group (formerly Delphi Automotive Systems, Electronics and Safety Division) for North America, Central America, South America, and Asia-PaciLic OEM advanced vehicle electronics products. In this position, he led over 20 years of electrical design/development for numerous automotive applications across the major automotive OEMs. This includes the very Lirst commercial XM and Sirius satellite receivers, a number of advanced automotive navigation receivers, advanced rear-seat entertainment systems, telematics systems, and advanced smart receivers. His most recent activities were focused on the advanced development of emerging vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)/vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications, Driver Monitoring/Gesture Control systems, and numerous advanced automotive receivers and entertainment systems programs for a range of automotive OEMs around the world. Dwight has also served many technical forums in the US, Europe, and Asia, as keynote speaker, technical presenter, technical track chairperson, and technical panelist. Dwight is a member of the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) and serves as a member of the Steering Committee for the SMTA Pan-PaciLic Micro Electronics Symposium. Dwight has also served on the governing board for the Drive World/Expo Conference and continues in roles involving technical consulting in the post-corporate phase of his life. Dwight began his engineering career in consumer at RCA in the development of advanced video systems and products. He transitioned into AT&T Technologies and worked in the development of advanced telecommunications products for residential and business applications. Dwight later moved into military and commercial vehicle powertrain control systems development at Allison Transmission Division of General Motors. In these roles he worked on and managed development of major emerging technologies and new product advancements for tracked/amphibious military vehicles, commercial ground transportation vehicles, and off-highway/construction applications. Dwight served in engineering management over the last 31 years of his professional career. Dwight Howard holds a BSEE from Purdue University and an Executive MBA from In diana University. Dwight is also an accomplished jazz pianist, composer/arranger with decades of experience performing with his groups across the mid-West region of the United States.

Alice joined GN Audio in 2014 after graduating from Tsinghua University in 2014 with a master’s degree in solid mechanics. Prior to her studies, Alice had one year’s experience for aircraft design in AVIC.

With years of experience in FEM simulation, Alice is proficient in Hyper works and other CAE analysis software, she has applied FEM simulation in many industry fields, including aviation, civil engineering and especially for consumer products—headset and loudspeaker.

After joining GN Audio as the first CAE engineer, Alice start to build the company’s in house capability for structure analysis. Now, at GN Audio, the team has continued to grow as simulation has become a necessity by helping to improve product quality, reduce cost and time development.

In her spare time, Alice likes to improve her own technical strength and experience by teaching others and answering questions on the simulation CAE forum.

Gilad Shapira is currently the Co-Founder and CEO at CADY. Gilad has a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics and International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Master’s degree in Statistics and Data Science from Tel-Aviv University.

LaRue Brown is a senior director of data solutions at Altair Engineering. LaRue has a Bachelor of Science in operations research from the United States Military Academy, and a Master of Science in applied data science from Syracuse University. In his current role, LaRue focuses on predictive analytics and deploying machine learning for technology companies

As VP of Technology, Gopu is responsible for setting strategy for product development, consulting services and ensuring customer success engaging technical presales and customer support teams at EMA. Since 2003 when he started working at EMA, he has led deployments and successful adoption of ECAD environments for several national and global companies. The key to success is aligning customer’s design engineering environment with supply chain initiatives, data management needs, reduce rework and promote reuse/automation.
Gopu holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calicut in India, and an MBA in Information Systems and Sales & Marketing concentrations from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.