Asen Asenov
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Asen Asenov ( 30 January 1954 in Sofia) is an Bulgaria scientist and entrepreneur in the field of microelectronics and device modelling and one of the pioneers in Technology Computer Aided design (TCAD). Currently he is the James Watt Chair in Electrical Engineering in the University of Glasgow and the Leader of the Glasgow Device Modeling Group.[1]He was a founder and CEO of Gold Standard Simulations Ltd. acquired by Synopsys in 2016. He is also the CEO of Semiwise and a non-executive Director of SureCore and Ngenics.
Biography
Asen Asenov (FIEEE, FRSE) received his MSc degree in solid state physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria in 1979 and a PhD degree in physics from The Bulgarian Academy of Science in 1989. He has ten years of industrial experience as a head of the Process and Device Modelling Group in the Institute of Microelectronics, Sofia. In 1989–1991 he was a Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of Technical University of Munich, Germany. He joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow in 1991, and served as a Head of Department in 1999-2003. He was appointed as the James Watt Professor in Electrical Engineering in 2003.[2]
Accomplishments
As a head of the Device Modelling Group in the institute of Microelectronics Asenov and his colleague Evgeni Stefanov developed the first integrated two dimensional TCAD Process and Device Simulators IMPEDANCE. Little know in the western world due to the Iron Curtain IMPEDANCE was licensed and used in USSR, Poland and East Germany. As a head of the Department of Electronics and Electrical engineering, together with Professor Chris Wilkinson he played instrumental role in the establishment of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre. Prof. Asenov is a pioneer in understanding the impact of the statistical variability associated with the discreteness of charge and granularity of matter as a maker or breaker of the contemporary and future CMOS technology. He directed the development of the first ‘atomistic’ TCAD simulator IMPEDANCE.
Entrepreneurship
Asenov was a co-founder, CEO and a qualifying director of Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) Ltd.[3] Apart from celling GARAND licences, GSS developed the first TCAD based Design Technology Co-Optimisation (DTCO) tool chain. The GSS customer basis grew up rapidly including most of the major semiconductor players. In 2016 GSS was acquired by Synopsys resulting in the establishment of the Synopsys TCAD R&D centre in Glasgow [4]. Asenov is also the founder and the CEO of Semiwise, a semiconductor technology and device IP company. He is a nonexecutive director of Surecore, a memory IP company, and Ngenics, an EDA company.[citation needed]
Awards
- In 1987 Asenov received an award from the Polit Buro of the Bulgarian Communist Party for the development of IMPEDANCE.
- In 2010 he received and R&D achievement award from the National Microelectronics Institute (UK) for the establishment of GSS.
- Asenov is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Scotland and a Fellow of IEEE.[5]
External links
References
- ^ "Asen Asenov". The University of Glasgow Story. University Roles: University of Glasgow 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ "Professor Asen Asenov". James Watt School of Engineering. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ "Biographical CV". Device Modelling Group. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Gold Standard Simulations
- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Academy Scotland". Royal Society of Edinburgh. The Royal Society of Edinburgh 2019.
Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:Bulgarian scientists Category:Fellow Members of the IEEE Category:People from Sofia Category:James Watt Profesor Category:European Research Council grantees