Ermias Asrat is a Validation and Characterization Engineer at Apple with prior experience at Texas Instruments, where Ermias held multiple roles including Validation/Characterization Engineer and Test and Product Engineer, as well as an internship. Ermias holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Jacobs University Bremen, obtained between 2005 and 2010, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, completed in 2008.