Jyotika Athavale
Director Engineering Architecture & President IEEE Computer Society 2024,
Synopsys Inc.

Jyotika is a Director, Engineering Architecture at Synopsys, leading quality, reliability and automotive functional safety research, pathfinding and architectures for in-field silicon health use cases. Prior to Synopsys, she held Principal Engineer and Lead Technologist roles at Intel Corporation and NVIDIA, leading corporate-wide Functional Safety architectures and strategies for automotive and avionics systems.

Jyotika also serves as the 2024 President of the global IEEE Computer Society, overseeing overall IEEE-CS programs and operations. She leads and influences several international standardization initiatives in the area of RAS/functional safety across Standards Development Organizations, in collaboration with IEEE. Jyotika led the development of the IEEE 2851-2023 standard on Functional Safety Data Format for Interoperability. She now chairs the IEEE P2851.1 standardization initiative on Functional Safety interoperability with reliability. 

For her leadership in international safety standardization, Jyotika was awarded the 2023 IEEE SA Standards Medallion. And for her leadership in service, she was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award in 2022. In 2024, Jyotika was awarded the IEEE Women in Technology and Leadership Award for outstanding contributions to engineering and technology, the empowerment of diverse populations and the advancement of women in STEM.

Jyotika is an appointed member (Industrial Expert) of the Board of Studies for the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology at VJTI, Mumbai. She is also recognized as a Distinguished Alumna of her alma mater. She has authored patents and many technical publications in various international conferences and journals. Jyotika has also pioneered and founded international IEEE conferences in the field of dependable technologies for automotive and data centers.