Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Professor, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

At Berkeley, Professor Sangiovanni-Vincentelli holds the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair and is the  Vice-Chair for Industrial Relations. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. He was a Director of ViewLogic and Pie Design System and Chair of the Technical Advisory Board of Synopsys. He is the Chief Technology Advisor of Cadence Design System. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence, where he is the Chairman of the Nominating Committee, Sonics Inc., Accent, a ST Microelectronics-Cadence joint venture, and Chairman of the Board of ComSilica, a start-up in the Wireless communication domain. He is the founder of the Cadence Berkeley Laboratories and of the Cadence European laboratories. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli was the founder of the Kawasaki Berkeley Concept Research Center, where he holds the title of Chairman of the Board. He is the Scientific Director of the Project on Advanced Research on Architectures and Design of Electronic Systems (PARADES), a European Group of Economic Interest supported by Cadence, Magneti-Marelli and ST Microelectronics. He is on the Advisory Board of the Lester Center of the Haas School of Business and of the Center for Western European Studies and a member of the Berkeley Roundtable of the International Economy (BRIE).

He is the author of more than 550 papers and 12 books in the area of system and VLSI design methodologies and tools. His fields of specialization are Design Technology, Computer-aided analysis and design, Embedded System Design, Formal Verification, and Hybrid Systems.