Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Chair, Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner - Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Author & Founder

Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is an Italian-American computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, where he has served on the faculty since 1976. He co-founded Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys—the two global leaders in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)—transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that powers today's electronic devices. He holds the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair at Berkeley and has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Visiting Professor at MIT. Author of over 1,000 scientific papers, 19 books, and 2 patents, with an h-index of 124, he is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE and ACM Fellow. His awards include the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal and the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies. He has also explored design automation applied to healthcare systems and synthetic biology, and serves as Special Advisor on Entrepreneurship to the Dean of Engineering at Berkeley.