Leadership

Ahmad Bahai, Ph.D, is a senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Texas Instruments.

Prior to this role, Bahai led Kilby Labs, TI’s research and development organization. Throughout his career, Bahai has held a number of leadership roles including director of research labs and chief technology officer of National Semiconductor, technical manager of a research group at Bell Laboratories and founder of Algorex, a communication and acoustic IC and system company, which was acquired by National Semiconductor.

Bahai joined TI in 2012 as part of the company’s acquisition of National Semiconductor. He holds a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Imperial College, University of London and a doctorate degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

In addition to his role at TI, Bahai is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of the Practice and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow.