Chandrakant Patel is HP’s Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow.

Chandrakant has led HP in delivering innovations in chips, systems, data centers, storage, networking, print engines and software platforms. He is a pioneer in thermal and energy management in data centers, and in application of the information technology to drive available energy management at city scales.

Chandrakant is an ASME and an IEEE Fellow, holds 151 patents, and has published more than 150 technical papers. An advocate of the return to fundamentals, he has served as an adjunct faculty in engineering at Chabot College, U.C. Berkeley Extension, San Jose State University and Santa Clara University. In 2014, Chandrakant was elected to the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Chandrakant believes that companies architecting solutions for the 21st century cyber physical age should be socially responsible and lead with purpose, making life better for everyone, everywhere.