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10 Facts About Suhas Patil

1.

Suhas S Patil was born on 1944 and is an Indian-American entrepreneur, academic, and venture capitalist.

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Suhas Patil serves on the boards of The Tech Museum and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

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Suhas Patil is known for describing the "cigarette smokers problem" for concurrent computing in 1971.

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Suhas Patil's father was the first person in the family to go to a university and get an engineering degree and worked at Tata Steel while Patil was growing up.

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Suhas Patil went to study intermediate science at St Xavier's College, Kolkata and then to the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.

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Suhas Patil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his masters and doctorate degrees, graduating in 1967 and 1970 respectively.

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From 1970 until 1975, Suhas Patil was assistant professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Suhas Patil has been the Chairman of Cirrus Logic since its founding and Emeritus since 1997.

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Suhas Patil is currently the Chairman of Digite, Inc and Chairman of the Board of Cradle Technologies.

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Suhas Patil's son is DJ Suhas Patil, who was the first Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy.