Tom Fitzpatrick is a Strategic Verification Architect at Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens EDA) where he works on developing advanced verification methodologies, languages, and standards. He has been a significant contributor to several industry standards that have dramatically improved the functional verification landscape over the last 25 years, including Verilog 1364, SystemVerilog 1800, and UVM 1800.2. He is a founding member and current Vice-Chair of the Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group and currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE 1800 and Accellera UVM-AMS Working Groups. In 2019, he received the Accellera Technical Excellence Award in recognition of his many contributions over the years, and in 2022 he received the Ron Waxman Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee. He has published multiple articles and technical papers on a wide variety of functional verification topics and has produced some of the most popular and successful video training courses on Siemens’ Verification Academy website. Tom is a long-time member of the DVCon US Steering Committee and is the General Chair for DVConUS 2024 & 2025. He is also a member of the Design Automation Conference Executive Committee. Tom holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, is an avid golfer, and is a huge Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots fan. He and his wife, Dee have two children who once swore that they would never become engineers. His son, David, is a Ph.D. student in Aerospace Engineering, and his daughter, Megan, is pursuing her Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering, both at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
