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Pim Tuyls
Executive Director R&D Engineering ,
Synopsys Inc
Pim Tuyls is Executive Director R&D Engineering at Synopsys. In his role he leads all R&D activities for the company’s Security IP. Before joining Synopsys, Pim was the CEO and Co-Founder of Intrinsic ID, which he started in 2008 as a spinout from Philips Research. In 2024 Intrinsic ID was acquired by Synopsys, which is when Pim joined the company and started his current role. Before 2008 Pim was Principal Scientist and managed the cryptography cluster at Philips Research, where he initiated the work on physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that formed the basis of the Intrinsic ID core technology. With more than 20 years’ experience in semiconductors and security, Pim is widely recognized for his work on SRAM PUFs and security for embedded applications. He speaks regularly at technical conferences and has written significantly in the field of security. Pim holds a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Leuven University and holds more than 50 patents.