Speakers

Vinay Asgekar Sr. Director, Integrated Supply Chain, QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies

Vinay, a veteran of over 20 years in the semiconductor and electronics industry, was a founding member of the supply chain council.

Currently at Qualcomm, he leads the newly formed integrated supply chain group to create a customer service oriented supply chain for QUALCOMM. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Vinay worked for AMR research and led their semiconductor and high-tech industry practice and supply chain initiative demand driven supply network.

He was also formerly director of supply chain for Conexant Systems and senior manager of manufacturing and quality support manager for AST.

Dr. Rudy Lauwereins VP Design Technology for Integrated Information and Communication Systems, IMEC

Dr. Lauwereins is vice president of design technology for integrated information and communication systems (DESICS) at IMEC. He heads a team of 190 researchers dedicated to developing the design methodologies, tools, and architectures that will find their way into wireless systems and multimedia products over the next three to ten years.

As head of the DESICS Group, Dr. Lauwereins works with companies around the world to facilitate their participation in IMEC-led research programs. In addition to his responsibilities at IMEC, Dr. Lauwereins is a part-time professor at Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium, where he teaches computer architectures to students in the post-graduate school for electrical engineering.

Before joining IMEC in 2001, Dr. Lauwereins was a professor at the Leuven University. He taught courses on hardware design and computer architectures and led a research group in fast prototyping of real-time DSP systems and fault-tolerant computing. He also spent six months as a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, California during that time.

Waguih Ishak Director, Photonics and Electronics Research Laboratory, Agilent Laboratories

Waguih Ishak became the director of Agilent's Communications and Optics Research Laboratory in Agilent's Measurement Research Center in 1995. With the spin-off of Agilent in 1999, Ishak drafted Agilent's photonics strategy in communications and measurements, for which he is currently responsible. In 2004, he became head of the Photonics and Electronics Research Lab.

Ishak joined HP Laboratories as a member of the technical staff in 1978. In 1981, he became a project leader and, two years later, was named project manager of the Sources and Signal Processing Group. In that capacity, he was responsible for transferring Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) and nonlinear gallium arsenide technologies to HP's spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope divisions. That work resulted in products such as the 8562 Microwave Spectrum Analyzer and the 54121, 54123 and 54124 series High-Speed Digitizing Scopes - tools that enable key technologies within industrial appliances.

Ishak has written more than 50 journal and conference papers, four chapters in the "Handbook of Electronic Instruments," and is named inventor in seven patents.