
Victor Grimblatt
Victor Grimblatt
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Victor Grimblatt holds an engineering diploma in microelectronics from Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG, France) and an electronic engineering diploma from Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile). He earned his PhD in Electronics from the University of Bordeaux in 2021. Currently, he serves as the R&D Executive Director and General Manager of Synopsys Chile.
Victor has published several papers on IoT, EDA, Smart Agriculture, and embedded systems development. From 2012 to 2024, he chaired the IEEE Chilean chapter of the CASS. He has participated in various conferences as part of the Technical Program Committees (TPC) and Steering Committees, including ISCAS, ICECS, LASCAS, and VLSI SoC. He served on the IEEE CASS Board of Governors from 2021 to 2023 and was reelected for the period 2025-2027.
He founded the Electronics for Agrifood Special Interest Group (SIG) at CASS and chaired it until 2024. Victor also chaired the LASCAS Steering Committee from 2018 to 2022 and represented CASS at the IEEE Climate Change TAB. He is currently the CASS representative at the IEEE IoT TAB.
Victor was President of the Chilean Electronic and Electrical Industry Association (AIE) from 2017 to 2021. He was a member of the "Chilean Offshoring Committee" organized by the Minister of Economy of Chile from 2006 to 2008.
In 2010, he was awarded "Innovator of the Year in Services Export." In 2022, he received the "IEEE/AIE Best Engineer" award in Chile, followed by the "IEEE R9 Outstanding Engineer" award in 2023. In 2024, he received the "CASS Meritorious Service Award."
Victor's research areas include Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Climate Change, and Smart Agriculture.
- Present Member (Job Marketplace Committee)
- 2025-Present 2025-2027 Member at Large (Board of Governors)
- 2025-Present Member (Technical Activities Division)
- 2025-Present IEEE IoT Initiative (Representatives to other IEEE Entities)
- 2025-Present Industry Division Members ( Industry Division)
- 2024-Present Associate Editor (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) Editorial Board)
- 2024-Present CASS Ambassador to Region 9 (CASS Ambassadors)
- 2024-Present Industrial Distinguished Lecturer Program (iDLP) (Industrial Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee)
- 2023-Present Member (Education Standing Committee)
- 2022-Present Nominations Committee (Standing Committees)
- 2022-Present Member (SIG IoT TC Members)
- Past Chile Section Joint Chapter section Chair (Chile Joint Chapter)
- 2021-2024 AgriFood SiG Chair (Special Interest Group on Electronics for AgriFood (SIG AgriFood))
- 2021-2024 AgriFood SiG Chair (SIG Chairs)
- 2023-2023 Member (Technical Activities Division)
- 2021-2023 2024-2026 Member at Large (Board of Governors)
- 2022-2022 Member (Nominations Committee)
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