Norman Chang co-founded Apache Design Solutions in February 2001 and currently serves as Ansys Fellow and Chief Technologist of Electronics, Semiconductor, and Optics BU, ANSYS, Inc. He is also currently leading AI/ML and security initiatives at ANSYS. Prior to Apache, he lead a research group on the research of Power/Signal/Thermal Integrity of chipsets based on VLIW architecture at HP Labs. Dr. Chang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds 23 patents and has co-authored over 60 technical papers and a popular book on “Interconnect Analysis and Synthesis” by Wiley-Interscience in 2000. He is currently on the committee for EDPS, ESDA-EDA, SI2AI/ML SIG, and an IEEE Fellow.