Anirudh Devgan joined Magma in 2005 and manages product development for Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit. He spent 12 years at IBM in various management and technical positions at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM Server Division IBM Microelectronics Division and IBM Austin Research Lab. Devgan is the recipient of DAC's Best Paper Award in 2005 the IEEE William J. McCalla Best Paper Award in 2003 IBM Microelectronics Division's Excellence Award in 2001 the 2000 IBM Corporate Award and the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and IBM Outstanding Research Accomplishment Award both in 1999. He has served on program committees for various international conferences including DAC ICCAD ASP-DAC VLSI Design and ISQED. Devgan has published more than 60 research papers and has 22 U.S. patents either issued or pending on various aspects of electronic design automation and circuit design. Devgan received a B. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and M.S. & Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.