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Brian Kelleher brings substantial knowledge of advanced chip design and AI to Caspia Technologies
GAINSVILLE, Fla., Nov. 19, 2024 // PRNewswire/ — Caspia Technologies , a pioneer in the development of AI-enhanced hardware security verification for advanced SoCs and systems, today announced the addition of Brian Kelleher to its Advisory Board. Kelleher joins a team that includes
Dr. Wally Rhines, CEO of Cornami and previous CEO of Mentor Graphics, Bill Earnshaw, former SVP of engineering at Qualcomm, Mark Bapst, former VP of engineering, CAD tools, SoC and security expert at Qualcomm, and Gustavo Contreras, lead senior security engineer at Microsoft.
Brian Kelleher served as senior vice president of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) engineering at NVIDIA from 2000 until 2024, where he led the GPU product development organization. Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2000, Kelleher was VP of hardware engineering at 3dfx Interactive. Earlier, he founded Dynamic Pictures, where he held various positions including CEO, executive vice president and chief technical officer. Prior to starting Dynamic Pictures, Kelleher served as head graphics designer for the MIPS-based development team at Digital Equipment Corp., in Palo Alto, California. Kelleher holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Brown University.
“Caspia is building a pivotal tool suite that leverages generative AI to enhance the security and robustness of chips and systems,” said Rick Hegberg, CEO of Caspia Technologies. “The deep knowledge of AI and advanced chip design that Brian brings to our world-class advisory team will help us plot a course for the company that delivers maximum impact for advanced, AI-enhanced system security.”
“For a significant part of my career I’ve been focused on building silicon and systems for use in a wide range of accelerated computing applications,” said Brian Kelleher. “As the computing infrastructure has evolved, so has the threat of cybersecurity attacks. I am delighted to join an organization that has a laser focus on addressing this challenge by leveraging generative AI. I look forward to seeing the deployment of more secure systems as a result.”
About Caspia Technologies
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, Caspia Technologies is a privately held company that is pioneering a holistic, AI-enabled approach to chip and system security verification. Caspia’s founding team brings together over 75 years of experience in various fields of the semiconductor market, including design, fabrication, test, EDA development, and importantly security and trust. Caspia delivers security-focused solutions to both public and private customers to enhance electronic designs and microelectronics physical hardware assurance.
For more information visit https://caspiatechnologies.com/
The Caspia Technologies team is proud to announce that Rasheed Kibria, a Senior R&D Engineer on our team, has received an Honorable Mention Award from the 2023 International Test Conference.
Rasheed Kibria, PhD
Rasheed was recognized for his paper on “ARC-FSM-G: Automatic Security Rule Checking for Finite State Machine at the Netlist Abstraction”, an innovative technique for automatically verifying security in hardware finite state machines.
The award is a testament to the quality and significance of Rasheed’s research. Congratulations to him on this well-deserved achievement.
Read his paper here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10351063
The Caspia Technologies team is proud to announce that our Co-Founder Farimah Farahmandi will lead a tutorial at the 2024 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in Newark, NJ on Monday October 28, 2024. This tutorial will elaborate on how CAD tools can verify the security and trust of SoC designs against various threats – including information leakage, malicious functionality, fault injection, and side-channel attacks.
The Caspia Technologies team is proud to announce that two of our co-founders, Dr. Mark Tehranipoor and Dr. Farimah Farahmandi, will be attending the VLSI-SoC’24 Conference in Morocco.
Dr. Tehranipoor will deliver the keynote presentation on “Secure Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging: New Attack Surfaces and Grand Challenges Ahead,” while Dr. Farahmandi will present two papers.
Dan is joined by Dr. Walden Rhines. Wally is a lot of things, CEO of Cornami, board member, advisor to many and friend to all. In this conversation, Wally discusses his decision to join Caspia Technologies as Chairman of the Board.You can read the press release announcing this here:
Read more and listen to the podcast here:
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Caspia Technologies — a pioneer in the development of hardware security verification for modern SoCs and electronic components today announced the addition of three executives to its management team. Richard Hegberg joins the company as CEO, Marc Corbacho as CRO and Dr. Jeremy Lee as VP of engineering.
“Based upon my prior history, I have the highest confidence in Rick and Marc. Along with Jeremy, this team brings a wealth of knowledge about chip and system design, along with a deep appreciation for the importance of hardware security,” said Dr. Walden Rhines, chariman of the board at Caspia Technologies. “We are facing a new era of design challenges that stem from highly sophisticated cyberattacks that are fueled by AI. It is time to add security verification to chip and system design, and that is Caspia’s mission.”
Richard Hegberg is the former CEO of three semiconductor start-ups. He has held executive roles at SanDisk/WD, Qualcomm, Atheros, Numonyx/Micron, ATI/AMD, and VLSI Technology. Marc Corbacho is the former VP of sales at Mentor Graphics, now Siemens EDA. Dr. Jeremy Lee holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut. He has a broad background in testability and design for test at Texas Instruments and Anora Labs.
Logic verification has always been a critical part of the chip and system design flow. It represents about 50% of the overall design investment. A new dimension of design robustness is now emerging – resilience to cyberattacks. Thanks to emerging AI technology, the ability to compromise system hardware with the goal of either inflicting harm or stealing valuable data is rapidly expanding. The need to add hardware security verification alongside logic verification is now a requirement for success. Caspia Technologies is leading the way with the industry’s first end-to-end security verification EDA tool suite.
“For many years, security resilience was important primarily in military applications,” said Rick Hegberg. “Thanks to a combination of the value of data, the mission-critical nature of almost all system hardware, and AI-enhanced intrusion capabilities, the security threat is now ubiquitous. I am excited to introduce the industry’s first end-to-end security verification flow – the work at Caspia will change the course of semiconductor history.”
About Caspia Technologies
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, Caspia Technologies is a privately held company that is pioneering a holistic approach to chip and system security verification. Caspia’s founding team brings together over 75 years of experience in various fields of the semiconductor market, including design, fabrication, test, EDA development, and importantly security and trust. Caspia delivers security-focused solutions to both public and private customers to enhance electronic designs and microelectronics physical hardware assurance.
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