Professional Title:
Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | UC Berkeley
Bio:
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of BAIR (Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research) Lab. He is an author or coauthor of over 1000 papers, 17 books and 3 patents in design tools, cyber physical systems, and Artificial Intelligence. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in Electronic Design Automation with a capitalization of over 180Billion USD Alberto is the recipient of several academic honors (Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, SRC Aristotle Award, the IEEE Leon Kirchmeyer Graduate Teaching award), and research awards (the IEEE Darlington Award for best paper bridging theory and applications, the IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Award, the EDAA Lifetime Accomplishment Award, the IEEE CEDA Kaufman Award for pioneering contributions to EDA) including the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal “for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields” and the 2023 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category: “for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that power today’s electronic devices”. Alberto obtained an electrical engineering and computer science degree (“Dottore in Ingegneria”) summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1971 and holds four Honorary Doctorates from University of Aalborg, KTH, AGH and University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
