Industrial and Academic Impact

Berkeley's impact can hardly be measured by awards alone. Berkeley has had significant impact on both academia and industry in a number of ways:

Berkeley Ph. D's and post-doctoral fellows populate the world's top academic institutions. Our graduates and post-docs include:

• Associate Professor Adnan Aziz, University of Texas at Austin
• Associate Professor Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland
• Assistant Professor Luca Carloni , Columbia University
• Professor Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Assistant Professor Luca Daniel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Professor Luca de Alfaro, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Professor Srinivas Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Assistant Professor Stephen Edwards, Columbia University
• Associate Professor Brian Evans, University of Texas at Austin
• Assistant Professor Bart Kienhuis, Universiteit Lieden
• Professor Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg
• Assistant Professor Rupak Majumdar, University of California, Los Angeles
• Professor Sharad Malik, Princeton University
• Professor Giovanni De Micheli, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (formerly of Stanford University)
• Assistant Professor Michael Orshansky, University of Texas at Austin
• Assistant Professor Thomas M. Parks, Colgate University
• Professor Miodrag Potkonjak, University of California, Los Angeles
• Senior Lecturer John Reekie, University of Technology Sydney
• Assistant Professor Dennis Sylvester, University of Michigan
• Professor Jacob White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Berkeley faculty have played key roles in founding two of the largest electronic design automation companies:

• Cadence Design Systems
• Synopsys

Graduates have also founded many successful electronic design automation companies:

• Dr. Ewald Detjens founded Exemplar Logic, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corporation
• Dr. Ramin Hojati is the President and founder of Averant
• Dr. Yuji Kukimoto is a co-founder of Extreme DA
• Dr. Alex Saldanha and Dr. Rick McGeer founded Softface, Inc., which has been acquired by Ariba, Inc.
• Professor Res Saleh is a founder and former Chairman of Simplex Solutions, which has been acquired by Cadence Design Systems
• Dr. Hamid Savoj co-founded Magma Design Automation and is serving as Senior Vice President, Product Development
• Dr. Vigyan Singhal was the founding CEO of Jasper Design Automation and is currently Chief Technology Officer

Research software produced at Berkeley has been a key influence in the development of many commercial products:

• MIS influenced the creation of the Synopsis Design Compiler
• Polis led to the development of Cadence VCC
• Ptolemy Classic influenced Synopsys System Studio and Agilent Advanced Development System
• Spectre and RELAX produced the Cadence Spectre Circuit Simulator and Spectre-RF Simulation tools
• Spice has influenced HSPICE and many other related products

Berkeley faculty continue to play key roles as founders, directors, investors, and advisors to a number of important companies in the electronic design automation and semiconductor industries:

• Cadence Design Systems
• Mentor Graphics Corporation
• Synopsys
• Stretch Inc.
• Tensilica
• as well as many new start-up companies, such as: Averant, BDTI, Extreme DA, Jasper Design Automation, Magma, and Softface