Jyotika Athavale is the 2024 President of the IEEE Computer Society. In this role she oversees the global roadmap for the organization and plays a leading role in international safety standardization. She was honored with the IEEE Women in Technology and Leadership Award for her contributions towards diversity in engineering and STEM.

Jyotika is one of the leading experts in the area of automotive functional safety. In her day job, she is Director of Enterprise Architecture at Synopsys, and has had a successful career as Principal Engineer at Intel, and Lead Technologist at Nvidia. It is quite remarkable having these very strong parallel career tracks. 

In this episode, Jyotika talks about how the standards bodies ensure standards are relevant in the future, especially considering the pace of innovation we are seeing in many areas such as AI, autonomous vehicles, and so on. Jyotika also shares her advice on becoming a thought leader, and not holding ourselves back from roles we are fully capable of performing.

Connect with Jyotika Athavale:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyotika-athavale-460b383/

Connect with Rahul Abhyankar:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulabhyankar