Freddy Gabbay received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel in 1994, 1995, and 1998, respectively. His areas of research are HPC accelerators, VLSI design, chip reliability, microprocessor architecture and machine learning. In 1998, he worked as a researcher at Intel’s Microprocessor Research Lab. In 1999, he joined Mellanox Technologies and held various positions in leading diverse product line architectures and ASIC design. In 2003, he joined Freescale Semiconductor as a senior design manager and led the design of baseband ASIC products. In 2012, he rejoined Mellanox Technologies where he served as Vice President of Chip Design. Today, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Ruppin Academic Center, Israel. Prof. Gabbay also holds 19 patents.