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University of Texas at Austin

Computer Science Engineering Computer Architecture Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering

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5.04/23/2026

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Yale Patt is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences, and the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering and serves as University Distinguished Teaching Professor. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, followed by an M.S. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1966 from Stanford University. Patt's career encompasses faculty appointments at Cornell University (1966-1967), North Carolina State University (1969-1976), San Francisco State University (1976-1989), University of California, Berkeley as Visiting Professor (1979-1988), University of Michigan (1988-1999), and the University of Texas at Austin since 1999. He served active duty as a Captain in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969 and consulted extensively for DEC, NCR, Motorola, and Intel.