He has more than 15 years of research and product development experience in circuits and architecture, design methodology, manufacturing technology, and supply chain strategy. Prior to Altera, he worked at Xilinx, Agere Systems, Lattice Semiconductor, and Polytechnic University, NY. Arif holds a PhD degree from MIT in electrical engineering and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He has authored numerous articles and has been granted 50 patents. He serves in the program committee of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.