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Women in Circuits @ ISSCC 2026
The IEEE SSCS Women in Circuits (WIC), in collaboration with ISSCC 2026, is proud to present the Next Gen Circuit Designer Workshop—a unique opportunity for undergraduate students, early-stage graduate students (1st/2nd year), and young professionals (≤2 years post-undergrad) to accelerate their careers in circuits, systems, and semiconductor technologies.
This immersive workshop will bring together 26 emerging talents for a day of networking, mentorship, and career development. Participants will:
- Engage in a private welcome event with peers and industry leaders.
- Gain insights from a fireside chat with a visionary speaker and industry leader.
- Receive one-on-one mentoring from professionals.
- Showcase their work in a competitive poster session.
- Attend an open career panel (available to all ISSCC 2026 attendees) on navigating academic and industry pathways.
WIC will sponsor 13 ISSCC 2026 registrations and will look for opportunities to sponsor the remaining 13 registrations by the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS). Applications will open in late summer/fall 2025, with selection based on personal statements, circuit design statements demonstrating innovation in circuit design, and reference letters.
Don’t miss your chance to connect, learn, and launch your career among the next generation of circuit design leaders!
Workshop Schedule (February 15, 2026)
| Time | Next Gen Circuit Designer 2026 | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Introductions (Private Event) | SoMa room |
| 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Elevator Pitch from Selected Designers (Private Event) | SoMa room |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Fireside Chat (Private Event) | SoMa room |
| 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Lunch Reception (Private Event) | SoMa room |
| 1:30 – 3:00 PM | Career Panel (Open to Public) | SoMa room |
| 8:00 – 10:00 PM | Joined Poster Session with SRP | SRP Ballroom |
Next Gen Circuit Designer Workshop 2026 Distinguished Speakers
Fireside Chat Speaker
Mydung Pham
Corporate VP, Silicon Design Engineering, AMDShe is a corporate vice president of design engineering in the Technology & Engineering Group at AMD. In her current role, Mydung leads AMD’s Central Design Methodology team delivering best in-class tools and methodology to support AMD designs. Her overarching goal is to continuously innovate and improving design productivity to accelerate product time to market. Prior to joining AMD in 2010, Mydung spent 18 years at IBM and Motorola in various technical leadership and management roles in CPU and SOC design for PC, Servers, and Game Consoles. Mydung supported girl’s engineering day and held tech talks to electrical and computer engineering students from the University of Texas. She also was a panelist of the “Taking it to the Next Level” for the Austin Women in Semi Alliance; supported by the GSA Women’s Leadership Initiative.
Career Panel Panelists
Carolina Mora Lopez
Scientific Director, imecCarolina Mora Lopez received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2012 from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with imec, Belgium. From 2012 to 2018, she worked at imec as a researcher and analog designer focused on interfaces for neural-sensing applications. She is currently the Scientific Director and team leader of the biomedical circuits team at imec. Her research interests include analog and mixed-signal circuit design for sensor, bioelectronics and neural interfaces. Carolina is a senior IEEE member and serves on the technical program committee of the ISSCC conference.
Sashi Obilisetty
Executive Director, Synopsys, USASashi Obilisetty is currently Executive Dir, R&D in the Technology Products Group at Synopsys. Sashi has been instrumental in enabling several Synopsys technologies in the design, verification and post-silicon space. She was one of the key leaders involved in enabling AI in Synopsys products. Between 2020-2021, she was the Chief Architect for Silicon Solutions at Google Cloud. Prior to joining Synopsys in 2009, Sashi founded 2 EDA startups. She was the Marie Pistilli Women in EDA Award Winner in 2024 and the Synopsys YWCA TWIN nominee in 2018. Sashi has a Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra and a Master’s in Computer Engineering from UMASS, Amherst. She is the holder of 5 patents in the EDA and AI domains.
Pei-Yun Tsai
Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Technology, National Taiwan UniversityPei-Yun Tsai received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1994, 1996, and 2005, respectively. From 1996 to 2000, she worked at ASUStek, Taipei. From 2006, she joined in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, where she has been a Professor since 2016. From 2022 to 2024, she was on the secondment to Tron Future Technology for developing synthetic aperture radar systems. From 2024, she is with the Graduate School of Advanced Technology, National Taiwan University. Her research interests include digital signal processing algorithms and VLSI design for wireless communication systems, radar systems, and biomedical systems.
Prof. Tsai has served as a Technical Program Committee member of A-SSCC since 2015 and has been the Technical Program Chair of A-SSCC in 2024. She was a member of the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (DISP) Technical Committee from 2015 to 2020, and a member of Applied Signal Processing Systems (ASPS) Technical committee, both of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, in 2021 and from 2025, respectively. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Circuits and Systems for Communications (CASCOM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She has served as a guest editor of IEEE SSC-L in 2021 and 2023, also a guest editor of IEEE JSSC in 2024. She has received Future Tech Award in 2022 as well as 2023, and National Innovation Award in 2022 and 2023, the Acer Longtern Award and the 1st Asian Solid-State Circuit Conference Student Design Contest Outstanding Award in 2005. She has also received the MXIC Golden Silicon Award in 2005.
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