Mehdi Saligane is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brown University and a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aix-Marseille and previously held research roles at STMicroelectronics, the University of Michigan, and UC San Diego. His work focuses on secure low-power IC design, biosensors, open-source analog/mixed-signal design automation, and custom architectures for lightweight language model accelerators. He is a founding member of the OpenROAD and OpenFASOC projects and currently chairs the IEEE SSCS Open-Source Ecosystem Technical Committee.
Dr. Saligane co-founded the SSCS Chipathon and Code-a-Chip competitions and has received the Google Cloud Research Innovators Award (2023) and the Google Research Faculty Award (2021).
