•Firas is serial entrepreneur with over twenty-seven years of experience in AI and the Semi-Conductors and EDA industry. He is President of the Board of iRoc Technologies, Co-Founder and President of AlpsEDA and co-founder and member of the board of Tayen Inc.

• In 2005, he was the winner of the French National Competition rewarding innovative technologies, which led him to the creation of Infiniscale S.A. where he served as President & CEO until its acquisition by Silvaco in 2015, which he served as Silvaco France General Manager and VP of Advanced R&D until the beginning 2023. In 2022, Firas was Co-chair of Si2 AI/ML Special Interest Group .

•Firas started his professional career at Mentor Graphics, which has been acquired by Siemens. In 2000, Firas took over the CAD technology development department of MEMSCAP S.A.

•He is one of the first to introduce AI and Machine Learning to EDA in 1993. Firas authored and co-authored tens of scientific papers and holds three patents on Machine Learning improvements for EDA solutions. Firas holds a computer science engineer degree from HIAST, the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Damascus and a PhD in Microelectronics from INPG, the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble in France.