Prabhu Goel

Prabhu Goel (born 1951) is an Indian-American researcher, entrepreneur and businessman, known for having developed the PODEM Automatic test pattern generation and Verilog hardware description language.

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• Dr prabhu goel ph d founder capital donor of foundation for excellence interviewed
• Chai with manjula prabhu goel
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In 1970 Goel graduated as an electrical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He was the President's Gold Medalist of his IIT batch and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, in 1974.

In 1973, he joined IBM's EDA organization where he was involved with chip test automation. At IBM he developed the Podem algorithm.

In 1981 to join Wang Labs. In 1982 to start Gateway Design Automation which developed the now industry standard Verilog. He sold his stake at Gateway for about $80 million.

He won the 2003 IEEE Industrial Pioneer Award for his work on design modeling and design verification through Verilog and Verilog-based design. He is now a private venture capitalist.

He has set up "Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair" at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur in the area of Internet Space, and the "Prabhu Goel Research Centre For Computer & Internet Security". He was a founding member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur) the largest organization of entrepreneurs in the world, with chapters in 42 countries.