Suhas Patil: Born in Jamshedpur, India, and landed in the high-tech industry from the academic world, Suhas Patil is Founder and Chairman emeritus of Cirrus Logic, a leading semi conductor company. Before founding Cirrus, Patil was an associate professor of computer science at the University of Utah, where he started the VLSI group and worked on design methodology for complex integrated circuits.

Cirrus Logic now has grown to great heights and has been recognized as a major semiconductor company for developing, manufacturing and marketing integrated circuits for multimedia, communications and mass storage in personal computers.

On academic perspective, Patil received his degree in electronics and electrical communication from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1965 and his master's and doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT in 1967 and 1970. Patil had dedicated immense time for research and has over 40 scientific papers covering his areas of research. He is also the beneficiary of several patents in the field of integrated circuits who has received several awards and recognitions.
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