ROUND ROCK, AUGUST 8, 2026 – The election of the 2026-2027 Si2 Board of Directors recently completed. Thirteen members of the 2025-2026 Board were re-elected and one new member of the Board was added. Congratulations to all of the Si2 Directors.
The following Directors were re-elected.
- Leon Stock, Vice President, Electronic Design Automation, IBM
- Lu Dai, Vice President of Technical Standards | Qualcomm Technologies
- Jacob Avidan, Senior Vice President Silicon Technology Group | Synopsys
- Niels Faché, Senior Vice President, Design Engineering Software | Keysight
- James Culp, Corporate Fellow | Global Foundries
- Wilbur Luo, Vice President, Product Engineering, Custom IC, Custom Products Group | Cadence Design Systems
- Manoj Selva, Vice President and General Manager, Product Enablement Solutions Group | Intel
- Jung Yun Choi, Executive Vice President, Samsung Electronics Memory Business, Design Technology Team | Samsung Electronics
- Bang-hyun Sung, Distinguished Engineer | SK-Hynix
- Mo Movahed, Vice President | Siemens EDA
- Gaurav Varshney, Global Director, Technologist, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff | Texas Instruments
- Viraphol Chaiyakul, Sr. Director of Engineering | NXP Semiconductors
- Aveek Sarkar, Head of the Ecosystem and Alliance Management Division | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Additionally, Thomas Ahle, Head of Machine Learning at Normal Computing Corporation, is a newly elected Director.
Thomas Ahle is a Danish computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher who serves as Head of Machine Learning at Normal Computing. Before his current role, he was a tech lead at Meta, where he led the Machine Learning Efficiency Group within Meta Probability, specializing in scaling frontier AI methods and probabilistic machine learning. Before Meta, he co-founded SupWiz, a conversational AI startup based in Denmark, where he served as Chief Machine Learning Officer before its acquisition by Puzzel. He previously worked at Palantir Technologies, contributing to Palantir Foundry, the company’s enterprise AI platform. Ahle holds a PhD in Computer Science from ITU of Copenhagen and a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University, and his research has appeared at NeurIPS, FOCS, and SODA, including a co-authored publication in Nature Communications.