Keynote: Design for AI and AI for Design

Charles Alpert

AI Fellow

Cadence

Charles (Chuck) Alpert is Cadence’s AI Fellow and drives cross-functional Agentic AI solutions throughout Cadence’s software stack. Prior to this, has lead various pioneering teams in digital implementation, including Global Routing, Clock Tree Synthesis, Genus Synthesis, and Cerebrus AI.   Charles has published over 100 papers and received over 100 patents in the EDA space.  He is a Cadence Master inventor.  He has served as Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, chaired the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, and earned IEEE Fellow. He received a B.S. and B.A. Degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.