Vinayak Desai is a Product & Solutions Engineer at Siemens EDA and is responsible for defining the requirements of the new features for Functional Safety technologies. He holds a Master of Science from California State University at Northridge. Prior to Siemens EDA, Vinayak has held various positions at Synopsys, Atrenta, Magma & Cadence as a Field Application Engineer & at Nokia, NXP as a design support engineer.