Ajay Bhatt is an Indian-American computer architect who is best known as the co-inventor of USB — the Universal Serial Bus. USB is now one of the most widely used interface standards in the history of computing, enabling billions of devices to connect to computers simply and reliably.
Before USB was introduced in the mid-1990s, connecting peripherals to computers was complicated, required different connectors for different devices and often required the computer to be restarted. USB's plug-and-play simplicity transformed personal computing and enabled the explosion of portable devices.
Bhatt also co-invented several other important technologies including AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) and PCI Express. He has worked at Intel for most of his career and holds numerous patents. His work has directly shaped the technology that billions of people use every day without thinking about it.