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SSCS Hosts Fourth Annual Women in Circuits
Bay Area Networking Luncheon

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) hosted its fourth annual
Women in Circuits (WiC) Bay Area
Networking Luncheon on 11 October
2019 in Cupertino, California. The luncheon, sponsored by Apple, attracted
more than 50 attendees, including
students, industry professionals, and
academics. The conversation flowed,
connections were made, and delicious
food was consumed at Apple's Infinite
Loop Campus.
The event began with opening statements from Yildiz Sinangil, senior
circuit design engineer at Apple, who
talked about the benefits of joining the SSCS and the WiC initiative,
including networking opportunities
at SSCS conferences, local Chapter
events for women, and the many
doors the WiC initiative can open
for its members. Following Sinangil's remarks, the audience heard
from Fabian Klass, senior director in
hardware technology at Apple. Klass
shared the background of his career
path and gave an overview of the

exciting work being done in the hardware technologies organization. He
also discussed Apple's work building systems on chip (SoCs)-important components that are critical
enablers for Apple products-along
with some of the challenges faced in
SoC design. He emphasized that a
dedicated focus on things that move
the needle, innovation, and talented
engineering teams guided by key
leaders have all been instrumental
in overcoming challenges.

Finally, Prof. Mark Horowitz from
Stanford University spoke about the
importance of learning, ingenuity,
and thinking critically. He opened
with a discussion on living a life of
breaking and making, based on his
childhood hobby of breaking things
down to learn how they work, putting them back together, and creating new things. He then went on to
describe the five greatest epiphanies of his career. First, he advised
the audience to stay curious and

Date of current version: 24 June 2020

Members of the WiC Committee who attended the luncheon (from left): Andreia Cathelin,
technology R&D fellow at STMicroelectronics; Rabia Yazicigil, assistant professor at Boston
University; Ingrid Verbauwhede, professor at KU Leuven; Sonia Leon, advanced product
design chief architect at Intel; Alice Wang, vice president of hardware at Everactive; Yildiz
Sinangil, senior circuit design engineer at Apple; Farhana Sheikh, senior staff scientist at
Intel; and Dina El-Damak, assistant professor at the University of Southern California.

Prof. Mark Horowitz (left), Stanford
University, and Fabian Klass, senior
director, silicon engineering at Apple, who
shared experiences with attendees of the
Bay Area WiC luncheon at Apple.

Fabian Klass talks about hardware
technologies at Apple.

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Prof. Horowitz give an interesting and
informative speech about how he became
"Mark Horowitz" by making and breaking.

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