Board of Directors

Andrew T. Yang co-founded Apache in 2001, focusing on power closure for advanced high-performance and low-power SoC designs, and has served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors since its inception. Dr. Yang has been an active entrepreneur and investor in EDA since 1993, when he founded Anagram, a high-capacity simulation solutions provider for deep-submicron ICs. Anagram merged with Avant! in 1996, where he served as the Vice President of the Analysis Product Division responsible for all extraction and analysis products until 1998. Since 1998, Dr. Yang was a lead investor and a director of a number of EDA start-ups including CADMOS (now Cadence), Ultima (now Cadence), InnoLogic (now Synopsys), and Mojave (now Magma). Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1989 and was a tenured professor at the University of Washington from 1989 to 1996.

Shen Lin co-founded Apache along with Andrew T. Yang and Norman Chang in March 2001. Before founding Apache, Dr. Lin worked at Palo Alto HP Labs, focusing on inductance related signal integrity issues and contributing to the HP-Intel IA64 micro-processor design. In 2000, he co-authored a widely read book on state-of-the-art methods for interconnect titled "Interconnect Analysis and Synthesis", published by John Wiley & Sons. Prior to his work at HP Labs, Dr. Lin worked at LSI Logic developing on-the-fly ASIC design methodologies. His career began as a research staff member of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, focusing on fast circuit simulation and clock-skew minimization techniques. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992, where he published his well-known thesis on recursive convolution for circuit simulation.

Dr. Ping Yang was previously employed as Vice President of R&D at TSMC responsible for deep submicron logic and embedded memory technologies. Prior to that Dr. Yang served as Senior Vice President of TSMC North America and Vice President of design services, DRAM development, and corporate marketing. Prior to TSMC, Dr. Yang was a director of device and design flow at Texas Instruments and was elected a Fellow. Dr. Yang holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is also a Board of Director for Global Unichip of Taiwan.