Dr. John N. Damoulakis is a Sr. Director – Advanced Technology Programs at Cadence Design Systems. In that position, he focuses to bring together into an integrated framework/approach, Cadence’s core technologies on electronic design automation,
simulation, emulation, and digital twinning tools to address the technology challenges encountered on information sciences, microelectronics, knowledge-based algorithms, and signal processing application domains. This involves not only the design of various
domain-specific electronic components (digital, analog, photonics, etc.), but also packaging and testing, especially those involving heterogeneous functionality and materials. He holds a Ph.D. from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in ME, and a MS in EE and ME from the Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Dr. Damoulakis has over 30 years of experience in concept definition, development, transition to operational systems, and management of high-technology programs for the commercial and defense industries. These activities embody not only technology development and readiness to products, but also deployment to operational
systems (commercial and defense). Technologies involved include signal processing
algorithms, microelectronic devices/systems design, fabrication, and testing, and real-
time and non-real-time embedded processors including their applications. Dr.
Damoulakis is working with numerous U.S. organizations to conceive the original and
fundamental program ideas, developing and completing required constituent
technologies, and transitioning the derived products to commercial and government
programs. The activities involve large program efforts, as well as small efforts aiming to
develop proof-of-concepts. Workforce development on microelectronics is a collateral
activity to all these, which he currently pursues through the Cadence’s university
program involving more than 1,000 active member universities worldwide.
Prior to Cadence, Dr. Damoulakis was at the University of Southern California’s
(USC’s) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) as a Sr. Director and Director of Advanced
Electronics, and prior he was a Sr. Director at Lockheed-Martin developing a variety of
electronic systems, and was also, responsible for the research and development of many
divisions within the corporation. He is often a consultant to many governmental agencies
as a subject-matter-expert within the areas of his expertise. He is the author of numerous
technical papers in the areas of engineering sciences and holds four patents. He is the
recipient of the Franklin’s Institute Levy medal for his contributions to optimal control
and estimation (1973), and USC’s ISI award of excellence for exceptional contributions
(2019).