Professor at Berkeley University
He is currently full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is an academic researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, technical consultant and businessman. He is co-founder of two companies in the Electronic design automation (EDA) space: Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys, Inc.
He received the 1995 IEEE Graduate Teaching Award, the 2001 Phil Kaufman Award and the 2009 IEEE / RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award.
In 1983 he became an IEEE Fellow and in 1998 he was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He received an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University (Denmark) in 2009 and from KTH (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2012.
He was elected a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2014) for contributions to electronic design automation.