Sanjay is also Chief Technology Officer at AGEIA Technologies, overseeing the architecture and design of AGEIA's high-performance ASICs for accelerating physical simulation in video games. He is the co-author (with Yale Patt of The University of Texas at Austin) of an introductory textbook for computer science and engineering students, titled "Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond", which is now available in its second edition from McGraw-Hill. Patel earned his Bachelor (1990), Master of Science (1992) and PhD (1999) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.