The people behind OpenROAD

OpenROAD is driven by a coalition of researchers, engineers, and open-source advocates who believe advanced physical design should be accessible to everyone. We blend academic rigor with industry-grade execution to keep the RTL→GDSII flow fast, transparent, and production ready.

Leadership & principal investigators

Andrew Kahng

UC San Diego · Program director

Lawrence Saul

UC San Diego

Matteo Coltella

Arm

Dennis Sylvester

University of Michigan

David Blaauw

University of Michigan

Ronald Dreslinski

University of Michigan

Lawrence Clark

Arizona State University

Sachin Sapatnekar

University of Minnesota

Tom Spyrou

Precision Innovations · UC San Diego

Matt Liberty

Liberty Software LLC · UC San Diego

Engineering collaborators

Indira Iyer Almeida

EDA technology & business consultant

Don MacMillen

MacMillen Software · University of Washington

James Cherry

Parallax Software · UC San Diego

Dimitris Fotakis

Nefelus Inc. · UC San Diego

Tom Feist

Consultant · 1st2Market

Colin Holehouse

Arm R&D

Research staff & students

Ming-Hung Chen

University of Michigan

Vidya Chhabria

University of Minnesota

Wenjing Jiang

University of Minnesota

Minsoo Kim

UC San Diego

Mehdi Saligane

University of Michigan

Ravi Varadarajan

UC San Diego

Mingyu Woo

UC San Diego

The broader community

OpenROAD thrives on contributions from dozens of universities, fabs, tooling partners, and community volunteers across the world. If you publish with OpenROAD, teach with it, or ship silicon using the flow, you are part of the team.

Want to collaborate? Learn how to get involved or contact us directly.