Krishna Manoj

Krishna Manoj is a VLSI/Physical Design Engineer with over four years of experience specializing in RTL-to-GDSII implementation across technology nodes from 12nm down to 3nm. Currently at Qualcomm, Krishna focuses on SoC block-level physical design, timing closure, and PPA optimization for high-performance mobile silicon. Previously, Krishna worked at Intel, where they implemented security-critical design techniques and validated silicon for hardware security compliance. Krishna holds a Master's degree in VLSI and Microelectronics from Illinois Institute of Technology and is passionate about design automation to enhance efficiency in physical design workflows.