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Dr. Resve Saleh (IEEE Fellow), is currently the NSERC/PMC-Sierra Chairholder in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, working in the field of System-on-chip design, verification and test. He is currently focused on the topics of low-power, power grid, clock and interconnect design for SoCs.

He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990 from the National Science Foundation in the United States. He has published over 100 journal articles and conference papers. Dr. Saleh is an active member of the IEEE and served as general chair (1995), conference chair (1994), and technical program chair (1993) for the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. He recently held the positions of Technical Program Chair, Conference Chair and Vice-General Chair of the International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design, and has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on CAD. He recently co-authored a book entitled "Design and Analysis of Digital Integrated Circuit Design: In deep submicron technology."

Dr. Saleh was a founder and former Chairman of Simplex Solutions which developed CAD software for deep submicron digital design verification. Prior to starting Simplex, Dr. Saleh spent nine years as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana, and one year teaching at Stanford University. Before embarking on his academic career, Dr. Saleh worked for Mitel Corporation in Ottawa, Canada, Toshiba Corporation in Japan, Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon, and Nortel in Ottawa, Canada.