Professor SK Sinha Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, Indian Institute of Science

Prof. Sinha did his BE in Electrical Engineering in 1967 and joined the Indian Railways. However, his heart was in academics and he came to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1977 where he did ME in Electrical Engineering and then was offered a research position leading to PhD. His research was in the area of Chopper Drive for Traction systems.

On completion of his doctoral program, Prof. Sinha was offered a faculty position in the Department of Electrical engineering at IISc where he worked till 1995. He set up a new Parallel Computing Lab in the EE department and most of his research efforts were directed towards applying the parallel and distributed computing techniques for industrial drive applications.

He then moved over to the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT) at IISc where he set up an Embedded Systems Laboratory. The Lab has now matured into a leading training and development centre in the area of embedded computing.

He has held various administrative positions at IISc, the most significant being his 4-year stint as the Associate Chairman and then another 4 years as the Chairman of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy, which is the primary window of IISc to the outside world.

His other interests include Yoga and Homeopathy. He is a certified Yoga Teacher from the prestigious Bihar School of Yoga.

Sanchit Bhatia Applications Specialist Agilent Technologies

Sanchit Bhatia is an Applications Specialist for High Speed Digital Products at Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. He provides pre-sales consultancy as well as post sales technical support to Agilent customers for High Speed Digital Products like High Speed Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, BER Testers and Protocol Analyzers and their applications for various High Speed Digital buses like HDMI, USB, PCI Express, MIPI, DDR etc.

Sanchit has a Bachelors Degree on Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; one of India’s most prestigious engineering institute.

Ravi Kishore Ivaturi Manager (Sales) Infineon India

Ravi Kishore Ivaturi is responsible for Sales, Marketing and Support of Automotive and Micro-controller products at Infineon India. Ravi has more than 10 years of experience across functions such as Application Engineering, Marketing and Sales in the semiconductor industry, with 7 years focusing on the area of Automotive Electronics. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Instrumentation and Electronics from the BMS College of Engineering.

Srinivasprasad Magal Senior Product Marketing Engineer High Performance Microcontroller Division Microchip Technology India

Srinivasprasad Magal is the Senior Product Marketing Engineer of Microchip Technology and is based in India. He is responsible for product marketing for Microchip's 16-bit and 32-bit micro controller solutions.

Prior to joining Microchip in 2008, he worked as a Senior Application Engineer at ST Microelectronics where he was responsible for Field Application Support and Sales for customers in southern India. He also took part in various technology forums for ST Microelectronics’ products.

He started his career at the Embedded Systems Division of Larsen and Toubro Ltd where he worked on different products in the area of energy metering, fuel dispensers and protection systems.

He has a degree in Instrumentation Technology from the University of Mysore and a diploma in Executive General Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Denny Liu Sales Representative – ASEAN, India & Oceania Holtek Semiconductor Inc.

Denny Liu has been with Holtek Semiconductor Inc. for over 6 years. During this period, his main responsibilities have included sales account development and product marketing & promotion of Holtek Microcontrollers and peripheral ICs in the ASEAN, India & Oceania regional area. Denny graduated with a Master degree in the field of Commerce & Management.

Ravi Malhotra Software Architect Freescale Semiconductor India

Ravi Malhotra is a Software Architect with Freescale at Noida and has 10 years of experience working on software solutions for Home, Enterprise and Access networks. He is currently defining the Systems and Software strategy for Freescale’s Low-end Networking and Consumer portfolio, with a specific focus on Performance, Datapath Acceleration and Migration to Multicore platforms.

He has previously worked on carrier-class IP Core and Edge routers with Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent. He also worked on Broadband Access Home-Networking solutions for DSL and PON with Conexant.

His focus expertise areas include Networking, Security, Multicore, Datapath technologies and accelerators.

Ravi holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University.

Ravi Boonapalli Technical Marketing Engineer Mentor Graphics

Ravi Boonapalli is responsible for pre-sales & technical marketing in India for Embedded software that includes Nucleus RTOS, EDGE Developer Suite and Inflexion UI.

He started his career in 2003 as an engineer at the printer division of Konica-Minolta where he developed and tested printer drivers for Windows and MAC OS. In 2004, he joined Mentor Graphics and took up several engineering roles. Ravi has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Osmania University and went on to do his Master's in Computer Science form University of South Alabama.

Ashok Chandak Senior Director: Global Sales and Marketing NXP Semiconductors

Ashok K. Chandak is the Senior Director of Global Sales and Marketing at NXP Semiconductors and is leading NXP’s sales and marketing operations for India and SAARC countries. He is a postgraduate in electronics engineering and has completed a global managerial program at Babson Executive Education, Boston, USA. His 20 years of general management experience in semiconductor industry includes account management, channel management (Distribution / EMS / ODM), business development, sales, design, manufacturing and research. He has experience in Semiconductor Sales and Marketing operations at global companies in India and Singapore and ASIA by leading multi-location, cross-cultural, cross-functional professional teams in the Asia Pacific region. He has been strongly engaged in the development of ecosystem in the smart card industry and electronics manufacturing in India for last 7 years and has actively contributed to the standardisation initiatives in India.

Syed Mohammed Khasim Lead Software Architect Texas Instruments

Mr Syed Mohammed Khasim started his career in 2001 with Linux devices for Single board computers and TI DSP applications & solutions. In 2004 he joined Texas Instruments as a Linux Consultant through Wipro technologies. After spending last three years (2004 - 07) in TI head quarters (Dallas, Texas USA) as a Linux Consultant and Open Source Facilitator for Wireless software development & strategies, he moved back to India and joined as a Technical Lead for Open Platforms in DSPS / Catalog applications division of TI. In last couple of years, Khasim has pioneered and lead various initiatives in TI to meet the increase in demand for Mobile Linux on TI chipsets and processors. Khasim earned a B.E. in Computer Science & Engg in 2001 from BMS college of Engineering, Bangalore, India.