Jyotika Athavale

Jyotika is a RAS Director in the CTO office at Synopsys, leading quality, reliability and functional safety research, pathfinding and architectures for in-field silicon health use cases including automotive and data centers. Prior to Synopsys, she held Principal Engineer and Lead Technologist roles at Intel Corporation and NVIDIA, leading corporate-wide RAS and Functional Safety architectures across application domains.

She served as the 2024 President of the IEEE Computer Society, overseeing overall IEEE-CS programs and operations. Jyotika is currently a candidate for the 2026 lEEE Division VIII Director-Elect position. She leads and influences several international standardization initiatives in the area of dependable technologies across Standards Development Organizations. Jyotika led the development of the lEEE 2851-2023 standard on Functional Safety Data Format for Interoperability and currently chairs the IEEE P2851 standards WG on Functional Safety interoperability. She also serves as the standards column editor of IEEE Computer Society’s flagship magazine – Computer.

Jyotika is a Professional Member of the IEEE Honor Society (Eta Chapter of the Board of Governors). For her leadership in international safety standardization, Jyotika was awarded the 2023 IEEE SA Standards Medallion. And for her leadership in service, she received the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core recognition in 2022. In 2024, Jyotika was awarded the lEEE 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.

She is an appointed member (Industrial Expert) of the Board of Studies for the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology at VJTI, Mumbai. Jyotika 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 lEEE conferences in the field of dependable technologies for automotive and data centers, including lEEE RAS Summits. She is also the General Chair of the 2025-2026 IEEE Women In Engineering International Leadership Conference.

2024 IEEE Computer Society President, 2024 Executive Committee

2023 IEEE Computer Society President-Elect, 2023 Executive Committee

2021-2023 Board of Governors

2021-2023 Distinguished Visitor

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