Nicholas Lafrenz

Nicholas Lafrenz is currently the STA Engineering Manager at Apple, where they focus on SoC physical design and static timing analysis. Previously, they served as an Advisory Engineer - Hardware at IBM, where they specialized in physical design, static timing analysis, and methodology development for ASIC designs. Nicholas also gained experience as a Design Center Co-op and Research Co-op at IBM, working on ASIC physical design methodology and performance analysis. They earned a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.