Anil Rao is vice president in the Intel office of the CTO and is responsible for security and systems architecture for Intel Corp. He leads technical vision, strategy, and architecture for next-generation cloud to edge to client security and heterogeneous systems architecture, including disaggregated and container computing and graph and sparse AI. Anil joined Intel in 2016 with two decades of engineering, product, and strategy expertise in cloud and data-center technologies./

Anil was a co-founder of SeaMicro Inc. in 2007, developing energy-efficient converged solutions for cloud and data centers. After SeaMicro was acquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in 2012, Anil spent three years as corporate vice president of products in AMD's Data Center Solutions Business Group. He served as technical adviser and strategy consultant to the office of the CTO at Qualcomm until joining Intel.

Anil earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and communications engineering from Bangalore University in India, a master's degree in computer science from Arizona State University, and an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a co-author of the Optical Internetworking Forum's OIF specifications and holds several patents in networking and data-center technologies.