Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1980-1981, he was 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 is an author of over 800 papers, 17 books and 2 patents in the area of design tools and methodologies, large scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems and innovation. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation and the founder and Scientific Director of the PARADES Research Center in Rome.

Board Participation: • Public Companies: He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence and of KPIT-Cummins. • Privately Held Companies: He is a member of the Board of Directors of Sonics, and of Expert Systems. • 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 of United Technologies Corporation (2005-present). He is a member of the Advisory Board of Innogest, Xseed and a member of the Investment Committee of Atlante Ventures and Fondo Next. Since January 2013, he is the President of the Strategic Committee of the Italian Strategic Fund. 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. Since July 2012, he has been named Chairperson of the Comitato Nazionale Garanti per la Ricerca.