Founders
Sergio Rueda
Sergio is a senior IC designer with more than 12 years of industry experience. He has participated multiple times in the whole IC design cycle, from negotiations with clients or the idea of a product to mass production. Leading companies have honored him multiple times because of his innovative ideas and design skills.
He obtained his BSc. in electronic engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Javier Ardila
Javier Ardila is a senior analog/mixed-signal design engineer with more than 10 years of experience in integrated circuit design (IC). He has a strong background in analog and digital IC design flow and techniques, industry experience on ASICs for automotive and industrial applications, and hands-on experience across multiple CMOS process nodes (22nm to 180nm) working in leading semiconductor companies.
He holds a B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in 2010. He participated in the IC Brazil Cadence Program during 2010-2011. In 2021, he attained a Ph.D. in Engineering, with a focus on integrated circuit design, from UIS, where he held a professor position. He is an active member of the Integrated Systems Research Group – Onchip. He has authored and co-authored several IEEE conference/journal publications and holds a patent in the area of integrated circuits. He also served on the technical program committee for IEEE CAS conferences and as a reviewer of the IEEE Transactions On Circuits And Systems.
Luis Rueda
Luis is an analog/mixed-signal senior engineer with more than 10 years of experience in IC design, with a strong background in analog and mixed-signal IC design flow and techniques, and industry experience on ASICs for automotive, industrial, and biomedical applications. Luis has participated in multiple tape-outs and designs in a wide variety of technology nodes, ranging from 0.35um to 28nm. He was also part of the group that developed the first-ever open‐source microcontroller using the RISC‐V instruction set architecture, back in 2016, acting as one of the analog leaders. He has been awarded multiple patents and has worked in leading semiconductor companies.
Luis received his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering (cum laude) from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), in 2010, and his MSc. degree in electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology in 2014. From 2010 to 2012, he was part of the IC Brazil Cadence program. He joined the Integrated Systems Research Group – Onchip at UIS in 2016, to start his Ph.D. research on machine learning (mainly deep learning) accelerators.
Marco Rueda
Marco is a successful angel investor and founder of multiple companies in a wide variety of sectors, such as finance, real estate, healthcare, and technology. Over the years, Marco has built an ecosystem for startup incubation which has been pivotal in turning ideas into business strategies.
He has an MBA and a bachelor’s in finance and international business from Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar in Colombia.