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Loc Trong,
Technologist,
C6000™ digital signal processors

Loc Truong is a technologist and a senior member of Texas Instruments' TMS320C6000™ digital signal processor (DSP) technical staff. He is currently leading an effort to identify system solutions for TI's portfolio of high-performance single-core, multicore and open source C6000 DSPs.

Truong has long been involved with embedded microprocessor- and DSP-based system design. His past experience includes sales and marketing applications management as well as development engineering management. Truong has also authored and presented many papers related to embedded systems design, signal processing as well as embedded Linux® and multicore programming. He is the holder of several U.S. patents.

Joseph Coombs,
Applications Engineer,
C6000™ digital signal processors

Joseph Coombs is an applications engineer for the TMS320C6000™ digital signal processors (DSPs) business at Texas Instruments. He is responsible for development, documentation and technical support for StarterWare for C6000 DSPs and the C6EZFlo graphical software development tool. Coombs also contributes to other DSP software projects, including the ongoing effort to port the OpenCV library to C6000 DSPs. In past roles, he has performed basic validation testing and written collateral software and documentation for TI's DSPs and DSP + ARM processors.

Joseph Coombs received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Tulsa and a Master of Science in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Henry Wiechman,
Software Product Manager,
Embedded Processing

Henry Wiechman is a software product manager for the embedded processing business at Texas Instruments. He has served in a variety of product line and business management roles in TI's catalog and emerging end equipment businesses. Wiechman received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Kansas State University and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Henry Wiechman,
Software Product Manager,
Embedded Processing

Henry Wiechman is a software product manager for the embedded processing business at Texas Instruments. He has served in a variety of product line and business management roles in TI's catalog and emerging end equipment businesses. Wiechman received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Kansas State University and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Stephen Lau,
Software Product Manager,
TMS320C5000™Ultra-Low-Power Digital Signal Processors

Stephen Lau is a software product manager in the TMS320C5000™ ultra-low-power digital signal processors (DSPs) business at Texas Instruments (TI). Lau's responsibilities in the C5000 Ultra-Low-Power DSP business include the definition, development and delivery of embedded algorithms and applications to help customers accelerate time to market.

Previously, Lau was product manager of on-chip debug IP and technology and associated debug test controller products for TI. In that role, Lau established and managed the TI's Third Party Emulation Developer Community. He was responsible for marketing the IEEE 1149.7 technology and established the first commercial IP license for debug technology. Prior to joining the emulation team, Lau was in TI's sales and marketing team, working across several major accounts.

Lau holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from McMaster University (Hamilton-Canada)

Kenneth Nesteroff,
Business Development Manager,
High Performance Computing and Imaging multicore DSP, Texas Instruments

Kenneth Nesteroff is the business development manager for Texas Instruments' high performance computing (HPC) and imaging multicore digital signal processor (DSP) business. In this role, he is responsible for business growth and strategic development, as well as the strengthening and fostering of customer relationships in the HPC and imaging markets.

Since joining TI in 1983 as a product engineer within the semiconductor group, Nesteroff has served TI in many engineering and business management capacities. He joined the multicore DSP business in April 2008.

Nesteroff received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

Raj Sivarajan,
Software Engineering Manager,
Multicore and media infrastructure

Raj has nearly 15 years of experience in real-time embedded software development. For the past 11 years at Texas Instruments, Raj has been responsible for providing production application software for Voice over IP on cable modem/DSL/residential gateway, and multimedia software development kits for digital video and voice, enabling customers to build their applications on a core software foundation while speeding time to market. Raj received his MS in electrical engineering, BS in electrical engineering and BS in mathematics from the University of Maryland.

Raghu Nambiath,
Software Design Engineer,
Multicore & Media Infrastructure

Raghu currently works as a project lead for enabling Linux support on TI's C6000 family of multicore DSPs. He has been involved in multiple software development projects within TI's communications infrastructure group, and recently served as project lead for the design and development of TI's multicore voice and video software development kit. Raghu holds a MS in telecommunications from the University of Colorado and is currently pursuing his MBA from the University of Maryland.

Sanjay Bhal,
Product Line Marketing Manager,
Multicore & Media Infrastructure

As the product line marketing manager for TI's multicore and media infrastructure business, Sanjay is responsible for the definition of multicore software solutions for market segments including mission critical, medical imaging, high performance compute and networking. Sanjay has held a variety of roles at TI over the last few years including engineering manager for TI's small gateway products where he was involved in developing TI's gateway software solutions. Sanjay holds a MS in microelectronics from the University of Mumbai and a MBA from the University of Maryland.