![[IMAGE] Tom Fitzpatrick](/en/images/bio/tom_fitzpatrick.jpg)
Tom is currently a Verification Technologist at Mentor Graphics Corp. where he brings over two decades of design and verification experience to bear on developing advanced verification methodologies, particularly using SystemVerilog, and educating users on how to adopt them. He has been actively involved in the standardization of SystemVerilog from its inception, starting with his days as a member of the Superlog language design team at Co-Design Automation through its standardization via Accellera and then the IEEE, where he has served as chair of the 1364 Verilog Working Group, as well as a Technical Champion on the SystemVerilog P1800 Working Group. He has published multiple articles and technical papers about SystemVerilog, assertion-based verification, functional coverage, formal verification and other functional verification topics.