Favour Okonkwo

Soc Design Engineer @Cybersecurity Assurance & Policy Cap Center - Morgan State University

Baltimore, MD, US

Focusing on validating RTL for a RISC-V 16nm Intel chip on the terasic Agilex SOM board, skills transferable to scalable compute platforms.• Leading emulation and validation efforts using paired SoM boards—accelerating platform bring-up and verification.• Debugging and validating the BipBip encryption module, contributing to industry standards and goals of building secure-by-design systems.• Supporting system-level performance analysis by running simulation variants and deriving architecturalinsights—reinforcing energy-efficient and high-performance compute design.• Developing expertise in cross-stack hardware/software debugging, relevant to SoC functional verification and system-levelvalidation in ARM’s IP development pipeline

Baltimore City Community College

Associate's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Morgan State University

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Morgan State University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cyber Security - Secure Embedded Systems

Morgan State University

Master of Science - MS, Secure Embedded Systems