Most recently Dr. Venkat was the principal design engineer and technologist on an advanced, legacy-free, Web-centric PC from Dell. He was involved in all aspects of product development from concept to production. Prior to WebPC, Dr. Venkat was involved in the evaluation of advanced technologies and setting strategy for the office of the CEO.

Prior to his tenure at Dell, Dr. Venkat worked at IBM for 7 years where he led the development of several advanced chipsets for desktop and multiprocessor systems. He was also an architect/consultant on PowerPC platform development and strategy. He was involved in the system architecture/performance analysis, and led development on the prototype of a high-end multi-processor server with a high-speed communication fabric. Early in his IBM career, Dr. Venkat developed scheduling and monitoring tools for parallel program execution using a distributed network of idle workstations. He developed a suite of parallel programs and completed extensive performance analysis to demonstrate the feasibility of using this network of workstations as a massively parallel computing system.

Dr. Venkat holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His graduate research experience centered on processor architecture, performance analysis, compiler technology, and the development of parallel programs. He has over 7 patents issued or filed and several under development.