Legends of Engineering -by Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame
Speakers
Ronjon Nag, PhD - 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee
Dr. Ronjon Nag is a renowned inventor, entrepreneur, and educator, building AI systems for over 40 years. He has founded and advised companies that have been sold to Motorola, RIM/BlackBerry, and Apple, pioneering speech and handwriting recognition, and mobile app stores. More recently, as Founder of R42 Group, he has been inventing and investing at the intersection of AI and medicine, creating Superbio.ai (an AI life science app store) and Agemica (a vaccine for aging). Additionally, he provides free AI education through the R42 Institute. Dr. Nag is a 2024 inductee to the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
Chandrakant Patel, PE - 2014 Hall of Fame Inductee
A former SVP, Chief Engineer, and Senior Fellow at HP Inc. – Chandrakant has been a Silicon Valley contributor for 42 years. Formerly leading HP Labs, he has shaped advancements in data centers, chips, high performance computing systems, storage, networking, 3D additive
manufacturing systems, and software platforms. Pioneering energy-efficient data center
solutions, he founded the Data Center research program at HP Laboratories that led to multi-billion-dollar data center infrastructure and services business. He is a recognized leader in AI, energy efficient computing, and sustainability.
With deep passion for fundamentals, and workforce development, he has also served as adjunct faculty in engineering at UC Berkeley, San Jose State, Santa Clara University and Chabot College for two decades. An IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, Chandrakant holds 165 US patents and has published more than 150 papers. He is a registered professional mechanical engineer in the State of California.
Chandrakant has served on the company board of Mphasis, an IT Services Company in India. He has also served on the Industrial Advisory Boards in EECS at UC Berkeley and ME at Santa Clara University.
Suhas Patil, ScD - Cirrus Logic, TiE
Suhas Patil is founder and retired Chairman of Cirrus Logic Inc., a leading semiconductor company. He is cofounder of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), world’s largest nonprofit for fostering entrepreneurs with 60 chapters worldwide.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Dr. Patil was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT from 1970 to 1975 and an Associate Professor at the University of Utah from 1975 to 1980.
He founded Cirrus Logic, Inc. in 1981 based on his research at MIT and the University of Utah on computer aided design of semiconductor chips. He based Cirrus Logic on an innovative fabless model of semiconductor product company.
He received his B. Tech (Honors) in Electronics and Electrical Communications from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1965. He earned his Sc D degree in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1970.
Agenda
5:00 PM - 6:30PM - Join us for a networking session to meet your fellow engineers and the speakers. A full selection of fine hot and cold snacks will be served along with soft drinks, wine and beer.
6:30PM - 8:00PM - A roundtable-style presentation by our Hall of Fame inductees and Silicon Valley luminaries.
8:00PM - 9:00PM - Questions and informal follow up with speakers.