Ahmad Bahai
Professor of the Practice, MIT. CTO, Texas Instruments, Research Laboratory of Electronics
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Cambridge, MA 02139
Dr. Ahmad Bahai is a senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Texas Instruments responsible for guiding break-through innovation, corporate research and Kilby Labs. Dr. Bahai is a Professor of the Practice at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IEEE Fellow and a member of Industrial Advisory Committee of Chips Act. He also served in Advisory to Department of Commerce, of Chips Act President Council of Advisors on Science and Technology semiconductor working group. He was an Adjunct professor at Stanford University from 2017–2022 and a professor in residence at UC Berkeley from 2001–2010. Throughout his career, Dr. Bahai has held a number of leadership roles including director of research labs and chief technology officer of National Semiconductor, technical manager of a research group at Bell Laboratories and founder of Algorex, a communication and acoustic IC and system company, which was acquired by National Semiconductor. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London and a doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.