Keynote

2020 – Current: Samsung Electronics
Current position – Head of AP Development
Experiences in leading SOC development, SOC architecture design

2005 – 2020: Qualcomm
Experiences in low power architecture & system design, video/computer vision HW/SW & architecture design, Mobile / Visual standard engineering & delegation including MPEG, JVT, 3GPP, 3GPP2.

Ph.D. University of Southern California, Department of Electrical Engineering, 2004
M.S. Seoul National University, School of Electrical Engineering, 1999
B.S. Seoul National University, School of Electrical Engineering, 1997

Frank Schirrmeister is Executive Director, Strategic Programs, System Solutions in Synopsys’ System Design Group.

He leads strategic activities across system software and hardware assisted development for industries like automotive, data center and 5G/6G communications, as well as for horizontals like Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning.

Prior to Synopsys, Frank held various senior leadership positions at Arteris, Cadence Design Systems, Imperas, Chipvision, and SICAN Microelectronics, focusing on product marketing and management, solutions, strategic ecosystem partner initiatives, and customer engagement.

He holds an MSEE from the Technical University of Berlin and actively participates in cross-industry initiatives as Chair of the Design Automation Conference’s Engineering Tracks.

Youngjin Cho is Vice President of Hardware at FuriosaAI, where he leads the development of
SoCs and AI accelerators. Previously, he spent 16 years at Samsung Electronics, serving as
Corporate Vice President and leading SSD controller programs and ASIC/SoC architecture. He
was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in 2017 and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science
from Seoul National University in 2009. His deep expertise in system architecture and silicon design
now drives FuriosaAI’s next-generation AI inference chip development.