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Chandrakant Patel
HP Senior Fellow
Hewlett-Packard Company
Chandrakant Patel is Chief Engineer at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. A keen observer of
technological and societal inflections, Patel has been a pioneer in the design of
information technology infrastructures and in the application of information technology
to drive energy management at the scale of cities. He has a proven track record of
delivering innovations in servers and data centers – from conception and breakthrough
technical contributions to business creation and commercialization.
In addition to his multi-disciplinary technical depth, Patel has held a breadth of
management and leadership roles at HP, and has extensive experience in communicating
with customers, investors, analysts, and media. He recently managed HP Laboratories HP’s central research division - where he led the delivery of innovations in storage,
networking, print engines, and software platforms.
Earlier, Patel was among the first to foresee the need to reduce energy consumption in
data centers. He subsequently founded the Smart Data Center research program at HP
Labs. His mantra—“the data center is the computer”—led to the design of an ‘operating
system’ for IT infrastructures, and his vision of reducing energy consumption through
need-based dynamic provisioning of IT, power, and cooling has led to a rich portfolio of
HP patents, publications, and products. Later, he charted new directions for the industry in
the application of IT to manage Internet-connected physical systems (also known as
“cyber physical systems”).
A strong advocate of fundamental training in science and engineering, Patel has been an
adjunct faculty member at Chabot College, the University of California (U.C.) Berkeley
Extension, Santa Clara University, and San Jose State University. A Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME), he has been granted more than 133 patents and has authored more
than 150 papers. He serves on the board of MphasiS Company in India, and on the
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Industrial Advisory Board at U.C.
Berkeley. In 2014, Patel was elected to Silicon Valley Hall of Fame.
Patel holds a B.S.c. in mechanical engineering from U.C. Berkeley and an M.Sc. in
mechanical engineering from San Jose State University, and is registered as a
professional mechanical engineer in the state of California.
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