Dr. Mehdi Saligane will be a new assistant professor in the engineering school at Brown University, where he will be a colleague of Prof. Sherief Reda.  Both are members of the original OpenROAD team, and it’s great to see alumni doing so well !  The announcement from Brown University:

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