Yoann has over twenty years of experience in AI and the Semi-Conductors and EDA industry.

Formerly technical director of Infiniscale, in 2005, he was a winner of the French National Competition rewarding innovative technologies. Yoann led  R&D of Infiniscale until its acquisition by Silvaco in 2015, which he served as Variation Solutions Manager until the beginning 2021.

Yoann is 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 INPG, the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble in France.