Suhas Patil

Suhas Patil is founder and chairman emeritus of Cirrus Logic, a leading semiconductor company. He is also chairman of Navin.com, Reez.com and Tufan, Inc., all high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

From 1970 to 1975, Patil was assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT where from 1972 to 1974 he also served as assistant director of Project MAC (Multi-Access Computer), and worked in the area of computer architecture and related topics. From 1975 to 1980 Patil was an associate professor of computer science at the University of Utah. In 1980 he started Patil Systems Inc. in Salt Lake City, which in 1984 moved to Silicon Valley and became Cirrus Logic.

Patil has worked in the fields of computer architecture, parallel processing, mathematics for computer science, design methodology for very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits and IC design automation software. He has authored over 40 publications in these areas of research, and has received several patents in the field of integrated circuits.

In 1992, Patil together with other colleagues of Indian origin in Silicon Valley formed TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, to assist upcoming entrepreneurs. He received his B. Tech (Honors) in electronics and electrical communications from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1965.

He earned his M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1967 and a Sc.D. degree in electrical engineering, also from MIT, in 1970. In 1995, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, awarded Patil an Honorary Sc.D.

He also serves on the boards of The Tech Museum and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.