Michael Fingeroff has worked as an HLS Technologist for the Catapult High-Level Synthesis Platform at Mentor, A Siemens Business since 2002. His areas of interest include Machine Learning, DSP, and high-performance video hardware. Prior to working for Mentor, he worked as a hardware design engineer developing real-time broadband video systems. Mike Fingeroff received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Temple University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.