Legends of Engineering - by Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame
Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame presents the Legends of Engineering series that features Hall of Fame Inductees and Bay-Area luminaries discussing today’s most significant technology issues.
Speakers Announced for the Legends of Engineering event on October 4, 2025 at Santa Clara University. Join us for a roundtable discussion with two Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame inductees
Speakers
Ronjon Nag, PhD - 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee
Professor Ronjon Nag is an inventor and entrepreneur. He is an Adjunct Professor in Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine, becoming a Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow in 2016. He is a founder and advisor/board member of multiple start-ups. His companies have been sold to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola. More recently he has worked on the intersection of AI and Biology. He has been awarded the Mountbatten Medal in the Royal Institution by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and has been winner (as Chairman of Bounce Imaging) of the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Award. He has been a pioneer of smartphones and the 'app stores' they depend on. He was awarded the 2021 IEEE-SCV Outstanding Engineer Award and the 2021 IEEE-USA Leader in Entrepreneurship Spirit Award.
Professor Nag has a Ph.D from Cambridge, an M.S from M.I.T and a B.Sc. from Birmingham in the UK, and is an Adjunct Professor in Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine. 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.