Summary
Cho Moon is a Distinguished Engineer with deep EDA expertise, spanning static timing and power analysis, pre/post-route optimization, and ECO workflows, who has repeatedly delivered multi-million-dollar customer wins at Synopsys and Precision Innovations. He combines hands-on C/C++ and scripting development with machine learning for runtime and QoR improvements, driving 3X productivity gains for major foundries and fabs. A proven global leader, he has built and mentored distributed R&D teams across the US, Asia, and Europe and grown junior engineers into high-potential technical leaders. Cho’s work includes foundry certifications for advanced nodes and innovative timing models that materially improved accuracy and throughput—achievements rooted in a PhD-level EECS background from UC Berkeley. He’s fluent in Korean and known for turning complex algorithms into simple, deployable tools even without formal reporting lines.
2 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., EECS and Materials Science (Double Major), B.S., EECS and Materials Science (Double Major) at University of California, Berkeley