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Ghani Kanawati

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Technical Director of Functional Safety - System Group at Arm
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Ghani is a design and verification leader with over two decades of experience in microprocessors and SOC design for high-performance and low-power devices. As Technical Director at Arm, he focuses on functional safety. He holds a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin.

He is a co-inventor on a patent for a hardware acceleration method for performance monitoring, showcasing his innovative approach to complex chip design problems.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Technical Director of Functional Safety - System Group
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
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Functional Safety
His current role is Technical Director of Functional Safety, and he previously worked on defining safety features for ADAS products and qualifying them to ISO 26262.
SOC Verification
A core theme of his career, he has managed pre-silicon verification and emulation teams for multiple complex SOC projects at Intel.
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Career

Work history

11-2016
Technical Director of Functional Safety - System Group
Arm
9-2015
Functional Safety Platform and Silicon Architect
Intel Corporation
11-2014 - 9-2015
Senior Engineering Manager
Intel Corporation
1-2009 - 10-2014
Engineering Manager at Intel
Intel Corporation
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Education
1987 - 2003
PhD
The University of Texas at Austin
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