Anirudh Devgan

Anirudh Devgan, Ph.D (1969–present) is an Indian-born American computer scientist and business executive, currently the President of Cadence Design Systems in San Jose, California. He is an IEEE fellow and holds 27 patents in topics ranging from block-based static timing to lithography aware leakage analysis and has published more than 70 research papers.

Anirudh was born in New Delhi, India on the India Institute of Technology, Delhi campus where his father was a professor of mathematics and statistics. He attended the Delhi Public School, RK Puram and obtained his undergraduate degree at the India Institute of Technology, Delhi for Electrical Engineering. He immigrated to the United States in the late 80's and received a Masters and Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1991.Currently, he resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and two kids.

Anirudh workedat International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) for 12 years in several management and research positions at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Westchester, New York, IBM Server Division, IBM Microelectronics Division, and IBM Austin Research Lab, where he received several awards and filed the majority of his 27 patents. He then worked forMagma Design Automation, where he was General Manager and Corporate Vice President of the Custom Design Business Unit.

Anirudh currently serves as President ofCadence Design Systems, promoted in 2017 after spending time as their Senior Vice President and General Manager.

In addition to Cadence, he annually speaks and serves at numerous technical conferences for electronic design automation (EDA) and electrical engineering around the world such as DAC, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, VLSI Design and ISQED. At IBM, he was the recipient ofthe 1999 IBM Outstanding Research Accomplishment Award and IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, the 2000 IBM Corporate Award, the IBM Microelectronics Division's Excellence Award in 2001. He has also received the IEEE William J. Macalla Best Paper Award in 2003, the International Conference on Computer Aided Design in 2003, and Design Automation Conference's Best Paper Award in 2005.