Babak Taheri
Chief Executive Officer, Silvaco Group
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Neurosciences, ‘94
Babak Taheri is the CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Silvaco Group. He began his career at Silvaco as the chief technical officer and executive vice-president of products. He also has been the CEO/president of IBT working with investors, private equity firms, and startups on M&A, technology, and business diligence. While at IBT, he served on advisory boards of MEMS World Summit, Novasentis, AGCM, ALEA labs, Lion Point Capital, and Silver Lake. Prior to IBT, he was the VP & GM of the sensor solutions division at Freescale semiconductor (now NXP). Babak was the recipient of “The Perfect Project Award” in 2003 while at Cypress; the recipient of the “Diamond Chip Award” in both 2013 and 2014 while at Freescale; recipient of the MEMS & Sensors executive of the year award in 2014. He has held VP/GM roles at Cypress Semiconductors, Invensense (now TDK), and key roles at SRI International and Apple. His most recent published book in 2021 is titled “Artificial Sensors Shape the Six Pillars of Our Lives”. Dr. Taheri served as a member of the governing council on ESDA Alliance from 2019 to 2021 and serves on the board of Parisi House on The Hill. In 2015, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal from College of Engineering, University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Babak received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from UC Davis with majors in EECS and Neurosciences. He has over 20 published articles and holds over 30 issued patents. He is the Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis.