Lecturers
July 27th – 31st, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM daily
Edificio de la Escuela de Ciencias de la Computación E Informática (ECCI),
Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio,
Universidad de Costa Rica.
Daniel Giraldo
Daniel is an electronic engineer graduated from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia. He served as President of the IEEE Student Branch at his university and has 5 years of experience as a Verification/Validation Engineer at Synopsys, providing support to Design Compiler and Fusion Compiler tools, with a focus on synthesis.
He combines experience, technical leadership, and knowledge of Synopsys Synthesis tools, bringing comprehensive perspective to the integrated circuit design and verification process.
Benjamín Villegas
Benjamín Villegas has a Master of Science (MSc.) in Electronic Engineering with a minor in Computers, from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in Valparaiso, Chile. He currently works as a product engineer (PE) at Synopsys since March 2024, supporting Power Analysis capabilities of Synthesis and Place & Route tools. While pursuing his master’s degree, he worked as a research assistant with a focus on microelectronic design, RISC-V and System on Chip (SoC) technology. He has also performed research in topics related to data science, machine learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT).