Rick Hagen

Rick Hagen is a seasoned engineering leader with over three decades of experience in the semiconductor and technology industries. Currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA since October 2012, Rick has previously held multiple senior roles at AMD, including Chief Engineer and Senior Director of Silicon Engineering, demonstrating expertise in processor solutions and graphics engineering. Earlier in the career, Rick worked as Senior Manager at Synopsys and held various managerial positions at DEC, starting in 1983. Rick Hagen earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Computer Hardware Design and Semiconductor Devices from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, followed by post-graduate studies in Plasma Physics at the same institution.