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Ikhlaq Sidhu is the founding director and chief scientist of the University of California, Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. He serves on the faculty of UC Berkeley’s department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) as an Adjunct Full Professor and he received an IEOR Emerging Area Professor Award in 2009. He was awarded as Inventor of the Year by 3Com Corporation in 1999.

Career
After graduating from the University of Illinois, Sidhu worked on laser printer design for Hewlett Packard. Upon completing his Ph.D. degree, he joined USRobotics, an internet communications hardware firm, which was later acquired by 3Com. He held a sequence of positions in advanced development on the way to becoming vice president at 3Com and he was awarded Inventor of the Year in 1999. He later joined the founding employees of Cambia Networks, funded by Benchmark Capital.

Sidhu has been awarded over 60 patents in networking, communications, signal/image processing, IP telephony, and handheld computing.

In 2005, he was recruited to work as the founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) at UC Berkeley. The CET was renamed to Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology after an endowment contribution from Pantas Sutardja and Ting Chuk in 2015. He created UC Berkley's Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP) in 2011, the program hosts Silicon Valley business leaders to speak and share insights, including Steve Blank, Marc Tarpenning, Curtis Carlson, and Charles Giancarlo. He also developed Data-X, a framework for enabling digital transformation offered in course format at UC Berkeley under the name Applied Data Science with Venture Applications. His work has created the foundation for many of UC Berkeley’s programs in entrepreneurship and innovation including the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, the Fung Institute, SkyDeck, and many additional programs.