Rahul Razdan
Dr. Rahul Razdan is a seasoned scientist and business executive who has had significant roles in the world of academia, startups, and fortune 500 companies. In corporate roles, he was the Sr Vice President of Strategy for Flextronics (FLEX), General Manager of the System and Functional Verification Business at Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), and Alpha CPU architect at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). He has successfully built successful startups in areas such as wireless power, machine learning, and low-power electronics design.
In academia, beyond a large range of worldwide collaborations, he maintains academic appointments at the University of Florida, Florida Polytechnic University, and the Institute for Human Machine Cognition. Today, he is CEO of Razdan Research Institute (razinstitute.com), a technology-based research institute which incubates ideas in the intersection of technology and society. Active projects for the institute include avvc.net in the area of autonomous vehicles, nextgenedu.net in the area of STEM education, and anew-da.ai in the area of EDA for long life-cycle products. He has a BS (1984) and MS (1985) from CMU and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1994).