Dr. Betz is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cerebras Systems. His research interests cover VLSI design and computer architecture (particularly FPGA and spatial processor array architecture), Computer-Aided Design algorithms, and deep learning inference acceleration. He is the original developer of the VPR FPGA architecture exploration tool and the leader of the open-source Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) project. He co-founded Right Track CAD to commercialize his research; after its acquisition he spent 11 years at Altera, ultimately as Senior Directory of Software Engineering. He is an architect of the Quartus CAD system and the first five generations of the Altera Stratix and Cyclone families. Dr. Betz holds 102 US patents, and has received 18 best or most significant paper awards from top conferences and journals in the field. He is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems journal and serves on the program committees of several conferences in the CAD and programmable silicon areas. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.