Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli (Fellow) is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of EECS at UCB. He is an author or coauthor of over 1000 papers, 17 books and 3 patents in design tools and methodologies, large scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems and AI. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in Electronic Design Automation. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was a consultant or member of the Advisory Boards of several companies such as BMW, Mercedes, Magneti Marelli, Intel, ST microelectronics, HP, General Motors, United Technologies, Lutron, Lendlease and Elettronica. Currently, he is a member of the following boards of directors: Cadence, KPIT Technologies, eGap, Exein, Cy4Gate. He is Chairman of the Board of Quantum Motion, Innatera, Phoelex, e4Life and Phononic Vibes. He was member of the Scientific Council of the Italian National Science Foundation (CNR) from 2001 to 2015. From February 2010 to December 2020, he had been a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology, where he is now a member of the Technical Scientific Committee.  In September 2023, he has been appointed President of the Chips.it, the 250MEuro Foundation of the Italian Government to foster integrated circuit design. He is the Chairperson of the Strategy Board and of the International advisory Board of the Milano Innovation District (MIND)  He is the recipient of several academic honors, research awards including the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal “for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields” and the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category: “for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that power today’s electronic devices”. Alberto obtained an electrical engineering and computer science degree (“Dottore in Ingegneria”) summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1971 and holds four Honorary Doctorates from University of Aalborg, KTH, AGH and University of Rome, Tor Vergata.