Speakers

Dr. Philipp Tomsich is Chief Technologist and Founder of VRULL, a company providing outsourced R&D for semiconductor companies: services range from tools for pre-silicon architectural exploration to the building of software ecosystems. 

As a representative of VRULL, he supports RISC-V International in the Vice-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee role and as the Chair of the Applications & Tools Horizontal Committee.

In these roles, he oversees the software ecosystem outreach, software-derived standardization, and the efforts to optimize for established and emerging application domains (such as AI/ML).

Philipp also serves on the Board of Directors of RISC-V, continuing to drive the empowerment of the software ecosystem perspective within RISC-V and to make it the premier platform for software innovation. During his tenure on the Board, he advocated for a closer alignment with international standards bodies, such as ISO JTC1, to further strengthen RISC-V as a global standard and to reinforce global collaboration.

Philipp is a guest professor of computer architecture at the University of Tirana. Previously, Philipp held teaching and research roles at the Vienna University of Technology, worked as compiler engineer at Silicon Graphics Inc., consulted in banking and government IT, and went on to build and exit Theobroma Systems (recently renamed Cherry Embedded Solutions).

Philipp holds a Master's Degree and a Doctorate Degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna.
For his contributions at RISC-V, Philipp has been awarded the 2021 RISC-V Community Contributor Award and the 2021 RISC-V Board of Directors Technical Leadership Award