Dr. Yervant Zorian has served as Virage Logic’s Vice President and Chief Scientist since joining the company in 2000.  Prior to that, Dr. Zorian served as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Chief Technical Advisor to LogicVision.

Dr. Zorian also serves as the President of the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council, and the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE Design & Test of Computers. He was the Vice President of the IEEE Computer Society for Conferences and Tutorials, and founded and presently chairs the IEEE 1500 standardization working group for embedded core test. He has authored four books, 300 refereed papers, and holds twenty three US patents. A Fellow of IEEE, Dr. Zorian has received numerous best paper awards, has been elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE Industrial Pioneer Award and the 2006 IEEE Hans Karlsson Award for diplomacy.

Dr. Zorian received an MSc degree from the University of Southern California, an MBA from Wharton School of Business, and a Ph.D. from McGill University.