Aveek Sarkar

Aveek Sarkar is passionate about enabling the semiconductor industry through scalable, robust high-impact solutions and workflows. As VP, Engineering, and co-head of Synopsys’ Customer Success Group, Aveek is responsible for the deployment of EDA workflows with semiconductor design, manufacturing, and ecosystem companies in addition to partnerships with academic and research institutions, working on mature node / wide band-gap specialty process to next generation advanced node processes, IPs and chips all with the mission to deliver the fastest path to success. 

Prior to Synopsys, Aveek was the co-GM of the Semiconductor BU at Ansys, a member of the executive team that established Apache as the industry leader in chip-package system power noise analysis, and a member of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems where he led the development of custom digital circuits and power management strategies for several generations of Sun’s UltraSparc microprocessors. 

Aveek is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, (BTech, EE), Oregon State University (MSEE), and Santa Clara University (MBA).