People
Mar Hershenson, Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Mar Hershenson joined Foundation as an EIR in June 2010, bringing expertise in optimization and circuit design. Mar was previously VP of Product Development at Magma Design Automation, where she came via the acquisition of Sabio Labs. Mar was the the CEO and a co-founder of Sabio Labs, a mixed-signal EDA company.
Prior to Sabio Labs, she was CTO and co-founder of Barcelona Design, where she commercialized her graduate research in the application of convex optimization to analog circuit design. She has also worked at leading Silicon Valley companies such as Linear Technology Corporation and Apple Computer.
She is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford University, teaching analog circuit design courses. In 2002, she received the prestigious award TR100 Young Investigator from MIT. In 2009, she was named one of the top 10 women in microelectronics by EETimes. In 2010, she received the prestigious Marie Pistilli Women in EDA lifetime achievement award. Dr. Hershenson has been awarded eight patents and has several other patents pending.
Dr. Mar Hershenson graduated with honors with a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid, Spain, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.