CTO Office - RAS Director
Jyotika is a RAS Director in the CTO office at Synopsys, leading dependable AI 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 global IEEE-CS programs and operations. She is currently a candidate for the 2026 IEEE Division VIII Director-Elect position. Jyotika leads and influences several international standardization initiatives in the area of dependable technologies across Standards Development Organizations. As the chair of the IEEE P2851 WG, she led the development of the IEEE 2851-2023 standard on Functional Safety Data Format for Interoperability and continues to lead the development of the derivative standards. She also serves as the standards column editor of IEEE Computer Society’s flagship magazine - Computer, as well as guest editor of the magazine’s Technology Predictions issue. Jyotika is a Professional Member of the IEEE Honor Society (Eta Chapter of the Board of Governors). For her leadership in international safety standardization, she 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 IEEE 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 the IEEE CS representative to IEEE CEDA and the AI Policy Committee. She is an honorary member of the Pune International Center as well as on 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 co-founded international IEEE conferences in the field of dependable technologies for automotive and data centers, including IEEE RAS Summits. She is also the General Chair of the 2025-2026 IEEE Women In Engineering International Leadership Conference.
Future vehicles will be based on multi-featured, more centralized compute platforms as a foundation for AI-based functions to enable highly automated driving. More AI based components in future highly automated vehicles impose new risks in the context of automotive safety. This talk will discuss the resiliency challenges for safety critical automotive systems, the benefits of RISC-V architectures for functional safety, and optimizing health of safety critical systems using silicon lifecycle (SLM) based solutions which address aging and degradation challenges for improved overall dependability.
