Tuan La
Senior Engineer at Arm
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTuan La is a Senior Engineer with 7+ years of hands-on experience in RTL, ASIC/FPGA design, and verification, currently focusing on unit-level verification for Arm Mali GPUs. He brings a rare blend of academic research and industry impact—designing high-frequency FPGA instruments, a 960-bit PUF for hardware fingerprinting, and tooling to detect timing hazards and side-channel risks. At Renesas he accelerated image processing threefold and cut power by 50% through pragmatic RTL and microarchitecture changes, while at Manchester he published multiple papers and improved FPGA DRCs. Comfortable across Verilog/VHDL, C, embedded firmware, scripting, and PCB design, he moves fluidly between silicon, firmware, and verification workflows. Known for creative problem solving (Excellent Engineer Award, customer-facing recognition) he also leverages cloud FPGA environments and custom netlist scanners to harden designs in ways that are not obvious from job titles alone.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering Computer Systems Engineering, Doctor of Engineering Computer Systems Engineering at The University of ManchesterBachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Github Skills (28)
dos8
fpga6
jython6
cat5
utility5
bus5
google-photos-api5
populate5
nodejs4
dbus4
flickr4
exiftool4
intelligent4
ubuntu3
json3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FPGA-Research/FPGAVirusScanner
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
Program to scan for malicious FPGA designs.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
scanmaliciousdosdesignsfpga-designs
tuanla93/SystemVerilog-UVM
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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