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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 has been on
the Faculty of the Department since 1976. He obtained an electrical
engineering and computer science degree ("Dottore in Ingegneria") summa
cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy in 1971. In
1980-1981, he spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the Mathematical
Sciences Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In 1987, he was
Visiting Professor at MIT. He has held a number of visiting professor
positions at Italian Universities, including Politecnico di Torino,
Universita’ di Roma, La Sapienza, Universita’ di Roma, Tor
Vergata, Universita’ di Pavia, Universita’ di Pisa, Scuola di
Sant’Anna. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Lester Center
for Innovation of the Haas School of Business and of the Center for Western
European Studies and is a member of the Berkeley Roundtable of the International
Economy (BRIE). He is Honorary Professor at Politecnico di Torino. He is an author of over 850 papers, 18
books and 2 patents in the area of design tools and methodologies, large
scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems and innovation. Industrial
Experience: He has co-founded several enterprises
in US and Europe. In particular, he was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys.
Cadence (quoted on NASDAQ, over 1.5Billion USD revenues, over 6Billion USD
market cap, 305.31M EBITDA) and Synopsys (quoted on NASDAQ, over 2Billion USD
revenues, over 7Billion USD market cap, 359.15M EBITDA) are the two leading
companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. He was the founder and Scientific
Director of the Project on Advanced Research on Architectures and Design of
Electronic Systems (PARADES), a European Group of Economic Interest located
in Rome supported by Cadence, Magneti-Marelli and ST Microelectronics. He was
a co-founder of the Advanced Laboratory for Embedded Systems (ALES) that
acquired PARADES. In 2013, ALES was acquired by United Technologies
Corporation. Board Participation: ·
Public Companies: He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence since 1991, a
member of its Governance and Nominating Committee and of its Strategy
Committee, and of KPIT-Cummins also known as KPIT Technologies, a high
technology Indian Company, with over 300Million USD revenues, where he is a
member of the Quality Committee, Governance Committee and of the Strategy
Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Expert Systems, an
Italian company that was recently quoted in AIM. ·
Privately Held Companies: He is a member of the Board of Directors of Sonics, a privately held
company in Silicon Valley, where is the Chairman of the Governance and
Nominating Committee and of the Strategy Committee. He was on the Board of
Directors of Gradient Technology, Comsilica (Chairman of the Board), and UPEK
(member of Compensation Committee and chairman of the Governance Committee),
all Silicon Valley Companies, of Accent (a European company, Chairman of
Compensation Committee and member of the Strategy Committee and of the Audit
Committee) and of Value Partners (an Italian Company). ·
Advisory Boards: He had been a member of the ST microelectronics Advisory Board for 10
years. He was a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board
(2005-2007), a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of General
Motors (2003-2013), and is a member of the Technology Advisory Council,
System and Control Engineering, of United Technologies Corporation
(2005-present), of the Scientific Council of the Tronchetti Provera foundation.
Consulting Activities: He consulted for many companies
including ·
US companies: Bell Labs, DEC, IBM, Intel, TI, United Technologies Corporation. ·
European companies: COMAU, Magneti Marelli, Pirelli, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, ST, and
Thomson; since 2010, he has been the Senior Advisor to the President and CEO
of L’Elettronica, an Italian defense company. ·
Japanese Companies: Fujitsu, Kawasaki Steel, Sony, and Hitachi.
Venture Capital and Private Equity Activities: ·
He consulted for Greylock Ventures,
Sofinnova and for Singapore Vertex Investment Venture Capital funds. ·
He is a member of the Advisory Board
of Walden International, Innogest Venture Capital fund and Xseed. ·
He is a member of the Investment
Committee of the VC fund, Atlante Ventures, by Banca Intesa/San Paolo and of
Fondo Next of Finlombarda. ·
Since January 2013, he is the
President of the Strategic Committee of the Italian Strategic Fund (Fondo
Strategico Italiano, a 10 Billion USD Private Equity Fund). ·
He is member of the advisory board of
the French PE group Jolt Technology. Public Authorities: ·
He was an advisor to the Singapore
Government for microelectronics and new ventures. ·
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 Initiative. ·
He is member of the Scientific Council
of the Italian National Science Foundation (CNR). ·
Since February 2010, he has been a
member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology.
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Since July 2012, he has been the
Chairperson of the Comitato Nazionale Garanti per la Ricerca, a seven person
committee established by the Ministry of Education, Scientific Research and
University of the Italian Government to oversee the evaluation processes for
research in Italy. Honors: ·
Teaching: In 1981, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the University
of California. He received the worldwide 1995 Graduate Teaching Award of the
IEEE (a Technical Field award for “inspirational teaching of graduate
students”). In 2002, he was the recipient of the Aristotle Award of the
Semiconductor Research Corporation for “outstanding teaching in its
broadest sense, emphasizing student advising and teaching during the research
project”. ·
Research: He received numerous research awards including the Guillemin-Cauer
Award (1982-1983), the Darlington Award (1987-1988) of the IEEE for the best
paper bridging theory and applications, and two awards for the best paper
published in the IEEE Transactions on CAS and CAD, five best paper awards and
one best presentation awards at the Design Automation Conference, a best
paper award at the International Conference on CyberPhysical Systems, other
best paper awards at the Real-Time Systems Symposium, and the VLSI
Conference. Major Honors ·
In 2001, he was given the Kaufman
Award of the Electronic Design Automation Council for “pioneering
contributions to EDA”. ·
In 2008, he was awarded the IEEE/RSE
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” with the following
citation: “For pioneering innovation and leadership in electronic
design automation that have enabled the design of modern electronics systems
and their industrial implementation” ·
In 2009, he received the first
ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design
Automation to honor persons for an outstanding technical contribution within
the scope of electronic design automation. ·
In 2012, he received the Lifetime
Achievement Award from EDAA. ·
He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since
1982 and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor
bestowed upon a US engineer, since 1998. In 2014, he became a Fellow of ACM. Honorary
Degrees: ·
In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary
Doctorate by the combined EE and CS departments of the University of Aalborg
in Denmark. ·
In 2012, he was given an Honorary
Doctorate from KTH in Sweden. |
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