# Ali Bouaricha

> Principal Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alibouaricha

Over 20 years of expertise in parallel computing both Multithreading (POSIX and OpenMP) and distributed computing (MPI, OPENMPI).  
Strong software engineering background in C/C++ and CUDA (NVIDIA GPU programming).
Proficient in scripting languages such as TCL, Perl and Python.
Proficient in the statistical computing language R and MATLAB. 
BS thesis in Relational Databases.
MS thesis in Optimization.
Ph.D thesis in Optimization and Parallel Computing.
Significant expertise in the EDA software application, namely,
field-solvers, circuit Spice simulation, RF, (RLC) interconnect extraction, OPC, Lithography,  and physical verification (DRC, LVS).
Very ambitious and enjoy very hard work!

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Siemens Digital Industries Software
Jan 2022 – Present
GPU technologist.

### Senior High Performance Computing Engineer @ Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Implementation of Advanced Simulation Engines using GPU, MPI and OpenMP/Pthreads.

### Senior Computer Scientist @ D2S Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2022 | San Jose
Software Lead of Multi-GPU design and implementation for modeling and large-scale optimization of next generation lithography using OpenMPI. (Languages/Scripts  used: C++, Cuda, Python/bash, R, OpenMP).

### Distributed Processing Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Jose, CA
Parallel Distributed Processing Infrastructure Lead. Hybrid parallel implementation of PVS (Physical Verification, DRC and LVS) using OpenMPI and Pthreads  on multi-core machines ( LSF and SGE can also be enabled) .  (Languages/Scripts used: C++, c-shell, OpenMPI, Pthreads).

### Senior Engineering Manager @ Cadence Design Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA
Software Architecture, Multithreading, Distributed Systems, Memory and Cache Sub-Systems. Performance Optimization, and System Programming. (Languages/scripts used: C++, c-shell).

### OPC Consultant @ Luminescent Technologies
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Palo Alto, CA
Large-Scale Constrained Optimization for OPC.  (Languages used: C++).

### Senior Staff Engineer @ Synopsys
Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View, CA
Analog-Mixed Circuit Simulation and RF (Product: HSPICE-RF). (Languages used: C++, Pthreads, OpenMP, and c-shell).

### Senior staff engineer @ Synopsys
Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View, CA

### Architect @ Berkeley Design Automation
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Santa Clara, CA
Analog-Mixed Signal Circuit Simulation and RF.

### Senior Member of Consulting Staff @ Cadence Design Systems
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | San Jose, CA
High-order time-domain steady state methods using Chebyshev.

### Software Manager @ Sequence Design
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | Santa Clara, CA
Parallel implementation of interconnect parasitic extraction.
High-capacity algorithms for extracting multi-distributed multi-lumped interconnect coupling data.
Persistent parasitic database for storing RLC networks. 
RC networks reduction algorithms.
(Languages used: C++, MPI, c-shell).

### Senior software engineer @ Silvaco
Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 | Santa Clara, CA

### Research Associate @ Argonne National Laboratoty
Jan 1994 – Jan 1996 | Chicago, IL

### Research Associate @ CERFACS (Toulouse, France)
Jan 1992 – Jan 1994 | Toulouse, France

### Ph.D., Computer Science @ University of Colorado at Boulder
Jan 1986 – Jan 1992 | Boulder, Colorado


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder

### Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ali-bouaricha-198102

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Last updated: 2026-04-12