Kathy Herring Hayashi has been involved in the semiconductor industry her entire career – developing, deploying, and analyzing advanced software tools used to create computer and mobile phone chips. At Unisys Corporation, she worked in research and development designing advanced in-house CAD software tools for the semiconductor industry. Through acquisition, she transitioned to Cadence Design Systems where some previous tools were incorporated into commercial EDA tools. She then brought her professional leadership as Director at Syntricity, an early innovator in enterprise hosted software, focusing on semiconductor yield solutions.
She currently works at Qualcomm Inc., working with semiconductor workflows in large scale compute environments. Kathy is the IEEE Director of Region 6 (Western Region of the United States) and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors.