| Bio: | 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, where he has been on the Faculty 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.
He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in
the area of Electronic Design Automation. He is the Chief Technology
Adviser of Cadence. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence,
Softface, Sonics, and Accent, a ST Microelectronics-Cadence joint venture
he helped founding. He is a member of the HP Strategic Technology
Advisory Board. He has consulted for a number of US companies including
IBM, Intel, ATT, GE, Harris, Nynex, HP, Japanese companies including
Kawasaki Steel, where he held the title of Chief Technology Advisor,
Fujitsu, Sony and Hitachi, and European companies including ST
Microelectronics, Alcatel, Daimler-Chrysler, Ericsson, Magneti-Marelli,
BMW, Bull. He was an advisor to the Singapore Government for
microelectronics and new ventures. He is the founder and Scientific
Director of PARADES, a European Group of Economic Interest supported by
Cadence, Magneti- Marelli and ST Microelectronics. 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 a member of
the Berkeley Roundtable of the International Economy (BRIE).
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. He has received numerous 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 best paper awards for the best paper published in
the Transactions on CAS and CAD, three best paper awards and one best
presentation awards at the Design Automation Conference. In 2001, he was
given the prestigious Kaufman Award of the Electronic Design Automation
Council for pioneering contributions to EDA.
He is an author of over 600 papers and fifteen books in the area of
design tools and methodologies, large-scale systems, embedded
controllers, and hybrid systems. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a
Fellow of the IEEE since 1982 and a Member of the National Academy of
Engineering, since 1998. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli was the Technical
Program Chairperson of the International Conference on CAD and his
General Chair. He was the Executive Vice-President of the IEEE Circuits
and Systems Society. In 1999, he was awarded the CASS Golden Jubilee
Medals. |
