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Portland, Or, Us

Model Paths is an incubator for easy-to-use web and mobile apps based on sophisticated modeling technologies -- including simulation, deep learning, and statistical modeling -- to help address critical problems in the climate, natural resource, educational, and social arenas. Offering a combination of free apps and premium apps to go after big problems that could benefit from our modeling solutions.

Venice, Veneto, It

Strategic decarbonization - consulting, planning, analysis, modeling, metrics and execution strategies to put your company, industry group or sector on a rigorous and verifiable decarbonization trajectory.

San Francisco, Us

Headed up technology, software development for product LCA and corporate GHG inventory applications, and life-cycle data development for food and other consumer sectors - focusing on efficient/accurate emissions accounting and decarbonization at product and company levels. Led the development of a best-in-class carbon accounting solution for the food/agriculture space.

CleanMetrics 2.0 was a climate tech startup offering innovative tools and databases to make emissions accounting fast, easy and inexpensive. Technology included CarbonScope (unified/streamlined product LCA and corporate GHG inventory software), FoodCarbonScope (LCA software for food and farms), and CarbonScopeData (LCI database including the largest commercially available data for North American food production + extensive other data). Technology acquired by Planet FWD in May 2021.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Technical lead for power and binsplit modeling and analysis on data center SOCs. Developed methodology and tools for power analytics, power rollups and pre-silicon binning analysis. • Technical lead for static timing methodology/flows and timing convergence on SoCs and hard IP designs. Products worked on: Atom Z35XX (Moorefield) SoC; MIPI CSI/DSI/C-PHY/D-PHY and DDR hard IPs. Direct technical contributions: developed an automated block timing budget generation flow/tools; developed methodology and constraints for timing analysis and convergence on IO interfaces on a complex mobile SoC; developed methods to verify correctness/integrity of clock definitions and clock propagation; developed methods to validate timing exceptions; drove various process and circuit issues from a timing perspective; contributed to silicon debug; developed timing constraints and methodology for timing closure on hard IPs.• Technical lead for design automation: Architected and developed a compiler to automatically build MIPI/DDR hard IP designs using standardized building blocks.

Provided free cloud-based simulation apps for use as virtual labs in chemistry, physics, geosciences, and environmental science at the high school and undergraduate levels. These tools (especially ChemReax and ClimateSim) have been used extensively by students and are still available for free use at sciencebysimulation.com, libretexts.org and tophat.com.

Provided analytical solutions for environmental performance and sustainability. Served nearly three dozen customers in diverse economic sectors. Solutions included software tools (ASP.NET web apps) and consulting for: product environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon footprinting, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) analysis, supply-chain analysis, resource efficiency, and waste reduction. Published pioneering studies on the GHG emissions from organic vs conventional agriculture, the climate impacts of meat production, and the climate change/economic impacts of food waste. Authored numerous other articles and reports, and served as a thought leader in the industry.

Provided electronic design automation (EDA) software for analysis, optimization and verification of large integrated circuit designs to end users and technology licensees in the US, Japan and India. Software tools/technologies delivered to customers: static timing analyzer (STA), design rules/constraints verifier, signal integrity (SI) analyzer, timing optimizer, and timing-driven design partitioner. Developed one of the first commercial cross-talk analyzers as part of timing analysis, and pioneered one of the earliest automated timing-driven ECO generators. Customers included: AMD, Equator Technologies, C-Cube, 3Dfx, Fujitsu, Procket, ReShape, CadMOS (now part of Cadence), Jedat (Japan EDA Technologies), and Atrenta (now part of Synopsys).

Milpitas, Ca, Us

• At MIPS Technologies (then part of Silicon Graphics): Led a software R&D team in the development of a new gate-and-transistor-level static timing analysis (STA) tool that included a number of innovative features including automated gate identification/characterization and automated verification of dynamic circuits. Developed detailed timing models for electronic circuits at the transistor and gate levels. Directed and participated in a 2-year software development project. This tool has been used to analyze/verify large standard-cell and custom integrated circuit designs. • At Silicon Graphics: Led a hardware design team in the development of a high-bandwidth memory subsystem for the Challenge multiprocessor server systems. Responsible for two large ASICs and complex system design. Also, developed CAD methodology and tools to support/enhance testability, timing analysis and design rule checking. Received a US patent for part of this work (US patent # 5,272,664).

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Designed a secondary cache-controller chip for Sun's SuperSparc microprocessor. Also, designed the scan/JTAG test logic for the chip. Contributed to CAD methodology including timing analysis, synthesis and circuit verification. Received a US patent for part of this work (US patent # 5,987,570).

Santa Clara, California, Us

Microprocessor architecture and microcode.

Graduate Certificate, Computer Modeling & Simulation

Graduate & Undergraduate Courses, Biology, Biochemistry & Ecology

Graduate Courses, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Ms, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical & Computer Engineering