Ajay V. Bhatt
Intel Fellow and Chief I/O Architect,
Digital Enterprise Group
INTEL CORPORATION
Ajay Bhatt is an Intel Fellow in the Digital Enterprise Group and chief I/O architect. Bhatt is an industry-recognized expert in I/O technologies and was instrumental in the development and proliferation of USB, AGP4X and PCI Express as ubiquitous industry standards. Bhatt is responsible for future platform and I/O interconnects directions for Intel. This role involves leading the definition of next-generation platform architectures and I/O technologies across the market segments internally and within the industry.
At Intel, Bhatt has been instrumental in driving definition and development of broadly adopted technologies such as USB, Accelerated Graphics Port, PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various chipset enhancements. Bhatt joined Intel in 1990 as a senior staff architect on the chipset architecture team in Folsom.
Bhatt received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the M.S. University, Baroda, India, in 1980. He received his master’s degree from The City University of New York in 1984. Bhatt holds nine U.S. patents.
In 1998, 2003 and 2004 Bhatt was nominated to take part in a Distinguished Lecture Series at leading universities in the United States and Asia. He received an Achievement in Excellence Award for his contribution in PCI Express specification development in 2002. Bhatt is PCI Express Steering Committee chair of the PCI-SIG.
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