Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli

Biography

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli holds the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence, Sonics, and Accent. He was a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board, and is a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of General Motors and of the Technology Advisory Council of UTC. He is a member of the High-Level Group, of the Steering Committee, of the Governing Board and of the Public Authorities Board of the EU Artemis Joint Technology Undertaking. He is member of the Scientific Council of the Italian National Science Foundation (CNR) and a member of the Executive Committee of Italian Institute of Technology. He received, among others, the Kaufman Award of the Electronic Design Automation Council for “pioneering contributions to Electronic Design Automation” and the IEEE/Royal Society of Edinburgh Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal “for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields”. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from University of Aalborg, Denmark. He is an author of 880 papers, 15 books and 3 patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.