Ashok Alagappan is a Lead Consulting Engineer with ANSYS. Ashok has 15 years of experience in semiconductor design and manufacturing, managing products through a range of activities from design to qualification. He has worked with customers in a variety of high-reliability applications from aerospace to telecommunications to provide expert analysis and recommendations for defining and improving reliability of electronics products and IC components. Ashok has developed tools to predict the lifetime of IC components due to intrinsic wearout failure mechanisms that are featured in Sherlock Automated Design Analysis software.