Mike Rieger is currently a group director in Synopsys’ Silicon Engineering business unit. In 1993, he co-founded Precim Corp to develop model-based optical proximity correction technology, and joined Synopsys in 2002 by way of a series of acquisitions.
Previous roles include image-processing and computer graphics research at Tektronix, and developing data-path and control software at ATEQ and ETEC.
Rieger holds an MSEE degree from Stanford, and AB and BE degrees from Dartmouth.