About

# Hi, I’m Kenneth.

![Kenneth Assogba](https://kennethassogba.github.io/assets/img/me.jpg)

I’m a software engineer at Siemens EDA. I build software that maps large chip designs onto programmable hardware (FPGAs), so teams can test them before manufacturing the chips. I also use AI for development and build agent skills and MCP integrations.

## FPGA prototyping

I work on the compiler for FPGA prototyping, which maps a chip design across multiple FPGAs. I develop placement and partitioning algorithms that map a chip’s netlist across multiple FPGAs.

I’ve recently started working on netlist qualification, including clock handling.

I redesigned circuit replication to run over 4× faster on production designs, and optimized graph pruning with speedups of up to 60× on large circuits.

[Siemens’ overview of Veloce proFPGA CS](https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/hardware-assisted-verification/2024/10/16/fpga-based-prototyping-from-do-it-yourself-to-an-essential-soc-verification-and-system-validation-tool/) explains the prototyping platform.

## AI-assisted development

I write agent skills that explain our codebase and engineering practices, and integrate MCP servers into the development workflow.

## Experience

Before Siemens, I built simulation software at CEA during my PhD in Applied Mathematics at École polytechnique.

I grew up in Benin and now live in Sceaux, France.

- 2023 — now: **Siemens EDA** FPGA prototyping · Placement & partitioning · C++ 

- 2020 — 2023: **CEA / École polytechnique** Simulation software · C++ · MPI & OpenMP · PhD 

- 2020: **Total** Wave propagation simulation and Python tooling 

## Publications

From my research at CEA.

-   [The Pn form of the Neutron Transport Problem Achieves Linear Scalability Through Domain Decomposition](https://kennethassogba.github.io/publications/mc-2023) · Accepted · 2023
-   [Spherical Harmonics and Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for the Three Dimensional Neutron Transport Equation: Application to Core and Lattice Calculation](https://kennethassogba.github.io/publications/nse-2023) · Nuclear Science and Engineering · 2023
-   [Precise 3D Reactor Core Calculation Using Spherical Harmonics and Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods](https://kennethassogba.github.io/publications/physor-2022) · Proceedings of International Conference on Physics of Reactors (PHYSOR) · 2022

[Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zumTckUAAAAJ) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0635-7508)

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