| Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli | |
| Other Names: | Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli |
| Birth Date: | June 23, 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
| Nationality: | Italian-American |
| Alma Mater: | Polytechnic University of Milan (PhD in EECS, 1971) |
| Occupation: | Computer scientist, academic |
| Years Active: | 1970s-present |
| Website: | at UC Berkeley |
Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (born June 23, 1947)[1] is an Italian-American computer scientist. Since 1976 he has been a professor affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. While working at UC Berkeley in the 1980s,[2] he co-founded Cadence Design Systems, an EDA company. He currently sits on the board of Cadence Design.[3]
Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli was born on June 23, 1947[1] in Milan, Italy.[2] He received his Master of Science degree in engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1971, with a specialty in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS).[2]
After graduating in 1971 from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Sangiovanni Vincentelli stayed on at the university in a research post.[2] In 1976, he moved to University of California at Berkeley, where he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.[4] At Berkeley, he "quickly turned his attention to the more theoretical end of electronics," designing numerical analysis algorithms for circuit design.[2] In 1983,[2] he co-founded Solomon Design Automation (SDA), an electronic design automation (EDA) company.[3] Solomon Design Automation merged with ECAD in 1987 and created the company Cadence Design Systems. Also in 1987, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli co-founded the EDA company Optimal Solutions Inc, which was renamed Synopsys.[5] By 1991, Cadence and Synopsys had increasingly started competing.[2]
He holds the position of Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair in Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer sciences department, and since July 2019, he has served as special advisor on entrepreneurship to the Dean of Engineering at Berkeley. He has also held a number of visiting teaching positions at Italian universities.