Jyotika Athavale is a Director, Engineering Architecture at Synopsys, leading quality, reliability and safety research, pathfinding, standards and architectures for data centers and automotive applications. Prior to Synopsys, she was Lead Technologist, Functional Safety Architecture at NVIDIA. Prior to NVIDIA, Jyotika was Principal Engineer (Director) at Intel Corporation leading corporate-wide RAS and Functional Safety architectures.

Jyotika also serves as the 2024 President of the global IEEE Computer Society, overseeing overall IEEE-CS programs and operations.

She leads and influences several international standardization initiatives in the area of RAS/safety in IEEE, ISO, SAE, IEC, JEDEC and OCP. Jyotika led the development of the IEEE 2851-2023 standard on Functional Safety Data Format for Interoperability. She now chairs the IEEE P2851.1 standardization initiative on Functional Safety interoperability with reliability. For her leadership in international safety standardization, Jyotika was awarded the 2023 IEEE SA Standards Medallion. And for her leadership in service, she was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award in 2022. In 2024, Jyotika was awarded the IEEE Women in Technology and Leadership Award for outstanding contributions to engineering and technology, the empowerment of diverse populations and the advancement of women in STEM.

Jyotika co-founded the IEEE RAS in Data Centers Summit and the IEEE RAS in Automotive Summit. She also serves as the Chair of the 2025-26 IEEE Women In Engineering International Leadership Conference.

Jyotika is an appointed member (Industrial Expert) of the Board of Studies for the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology at VJTI, Mumbai. She is also recognized as a Distinguished Alumna by the same university - her alma mater. She has authored patents and many technical publications in various international conferences and journals. Jyotika has also pioneered & chaired international workshops and conferences in the field of dependable technologies.