Aleksandar Kavčić
Aleksandar Kavčić, born in 1968 in Belgrade, is a Serbian electrical engineer, university professor and philanthropist. He is an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2007 to 2017 he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. From 1998 to 2006 he worked at Harvard University, first as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and then as the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (2002–2006). He studied at the Mathematical Grammar School and the University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering. He earned a Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering from Ruhr University Bochum in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998. He has also been a visiting associate professor at City University of Hong Kong (Fall 2005) and a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Spring 2006).
In 2016, Carnegie Mellon University won a lawsuit against Marvell Technology Group for infringing Kavčić's and mentor Jose Moura's intellectual property, with a settlement of US$750 million. He founded the Alek Kavčić Foundation to provide high-quality textbooks for free to all Serbian elementary students, and has donated computers to many Serbian high schools.
He lives in Austin, Texas, and Belgrade. In the 2020 Serbian parliamentary elections he ran for parliament with the Enough is Enough party as president of the party's education board, but the party did not win seats and he left the party.
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