Prabhu Goel (born 1949) is an Indian American researcher, entrepreneur[1] and businessman, known for having developed the PODEM Automatic test pattern generation and Verilog hardware description language.
He was the President's Gold Medalist of his IIT batch and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, in 1974.
Those funds enabled Goel to recruit other team members including Phil Moorby and Chi-Lai Huang in 1984.
Gateway developed Verilog with a mission to make a Hardware Description Language which lent itself to automatic synthesis.
[5] He has set up "Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair" at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur in the area of Internet Space,[6] and the "Prabhu Goel Research Centre For Computer & Internet Security".