Safe & Sound Design Challenge: The Judges

jwatson — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:06:44 GMT

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Safe & Sound Design Challenge
About the Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	The Judges
Intro Video	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	Technical Documents
The Challengers

Welcome to our 3 Expert Judges for the Safe & Sound Design Challenge!

Thank you Jan Cumps, mrchy and Akbari1982for being on hand to respond to Challengers' questions during their project builds.

If you have any questions, you can simply message Jan Cumps (Jan Cumps), mrchy (mrchy) or Akbari1982 (Akbari1982) by @mentioning their usernames in a post. You can also visit their profiles and FOLLOW them to receive all their new posts.

For any general questions about the Challenge, you can post a 'comment' on the About this Challenge page. Your fellow challengers or anyone following the Challenge are likely to respond. You can also 'bookmark' the Safe & Sound Design Challenge to keep up-to-date with all the Challenge posts.

mrchy - Texas Instruments Applications Engineer for Low Power Wireless, Connectivity & SLL products

Mizanur Chowdhury is a member of the EMEA Central Application Team. He supports the TI Low Power Wireless, Connectivity and SLL product portfolio.

Mizanur has more than 12 years of experience with TI’s Semiconductor Group; during this time he has supported Logic, Interface and LPW products. He has experience working with mass market customers across many applications in industrial and consumer electronics.

Mizanur holds a B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BIT and M.Sc. degree in Communications Technology from the University of Ulm in Germany.

Jan Cumps - element14 Top Member and Texas Instruments E2E Community MVP

Jan is an element14 member of the month, who has regularly offered his expertise as a RoadTester. He's also been a finalist in two Design Challenges.

Jan blogs about electronics on element14 and TI's E2E Community forums. He writes about a variety of topics, such as safety microcontrollers over secure IoT communication and power electronics.

Jan has a degree in electronics and computer science. He is development integration manager at an American multinational company as well as a moderator at CodeRanch.

Expertise and Interests:

Automotive and industrial embedded systems
Functional and operational safety
Wireless digital communication
New semiconductor materials
Software lifecycle management, automated build & test

Akbari1982 - Texas Instruments Applications Engineer for EMEA Central Applications

Mohammad is a member of EMEA Central Application team, supporting TI customers in the EMEA region. His responsibilities include the Signal Chain Portfolio, as well as wired connectivity products.

Mohammad has more than 6 years of experience with TI’s Semiconductor Group. During this time, he has provided signal chain and connectivity applications as well as business support for broad market customers in the EMEA region. He has experience working with customers across many applications, including industrial, communication and consumer electronics. His main activities are supporting customer designs with data converters, sensors and amplifiers. Since Mohammad is a technical liaison between customers and the internal business unit, he works closely with design and business development teams globally in order to provide feedback for improvements on both the system and device level.

Mohammad holds an Engineering degree in Information Technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

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