Martin Lueker-boden
Director, Memory And Networking Fabrics Research Group at Western Digital Corporation
United States
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Top SchoolMartin Lueker-boden is a Director leading Western Digital’s Memory and Networking Fabrics Research Group, bringing over 20 years of hands-on experience in electronic design, computing hardware, and large-scale data analysis. He focuses on in-memory compute for AI, controller architectures for emerging non-volatile memories (MRAM, ReRAM, PCM, FeRAM), and advancing open-source hardware and EDA tools, while supervising an interdisciplinary team from ideation to implemented silicon. A prolific inventor with 24+ patents and active roles in Chips Alliance and the IEEE International Memory Workshop, he bridges academic rigor and industry impact. His background includes designing nano-kelvin-precision astrophysical cameras at Caltech and a PhD in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley, reflecting deep expertise in precision instrumentation and statistical pipelines for huge datasets. He also contributes to prominent open-source silicon efforts such as OpenTitan, applying hardware and verification skills to secure root-of-trust IP. Colleagues note that what drives him most is mentoring people and building collaborative communities that turn hard research challenges into practical hardware solutions.
6 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at University of California, Berkeley
spanish, french
Github Skills (16)
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hardware10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lowRISC/opentitan
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Role in this project:
Hardware Engineer & Verification Engineer
Hardware Engineer & Verification EngineerContributions:1157 reviews, 200 commits, 374 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin's commits primarily involve implementing and verifying hardware IP modules within the OpenTitan project. They define register definitions, create register hardware, and implement logic for handling communication and control, specifically within the I2C, SPI_HOST, PWM, and Entropy Source (ENTROPY_SRC) IP modules. The contributions include adding core functionality, implementing finite state machines (FSMs), and creating coverage groups and tests for verification. The user also made changes to the Earl Grey top module, and incorporated the Pattgen and I2C IP's as well.
root-of-trustrootsilicontrust
martin-lueker/opentitan
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Contributions:696 pushes, 349 branches in 3 years
root-of-trustrootsilicontrust
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