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Dr. K Subbarangaiah is one of the founders of VEDA IIT and has been its Director since its inception in the year 1997. He is a professor with 39 years of teaching and research experience at University which also includes more than15 years of VLSI Industry experience. He has been guiding and driving VLSI Physical Design groups and projects at multiple VLSI companies as consulting director. He authored about fifty research papers and guided M.Phils and Ph.Ds. He is associated with the tape-out of more than 40 chips of different complexities at different technology nodes for several multinational clients. He is a founder member of VLSI International Forum. He is also a fellow of Acoustical Society of India, Life member of Instrument Society of India, member of IEEE and many other technical and professional organisations.
 
P Krishna Prasad, with over 23 years industry experience is the Director of SoCtronics and an Associate Professor at VEDA IIT. He is a post graduate from IIT, Madras . He is a founder member of QualCore Logic Ltd and served as CTO for about seven years. Prior to this, he served in CMC and HAL for twelve years.
 
Padmavathi Devi Volety has 28 years of experience in design and development of systems and SW for Mobile, Multimedia devices and telecommunication equipment. Her industry focus is on handling Multimedia IP and System Software development for Hardware IP, Embedded systems and SoC Reference platforms. Her previous assignments include VP of Engineering at Myspark Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Director (SW) at ATI/AMD, General Manager for Multimedia IP development at CuTe Solutions, In prior career spanning 15 years, she led successfully many telecommunication products engineering development contributing to indigenous growth of Indian telecommunication industry.

She did M.Tech. in Microwaves and Optical Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
 
Balaji Kanigicherla has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and has been associated with multiple blue chip and startup companies in USA and India: Intel, AMD, Conexant, Velio, Ikanos, Ineda etc. He has a number of patent filings and publications to his name. He worked in the capacity of CEO, CTO, Engineering director, Architect, Technical Lead and Design Engineer. He is a noted speaker at various industry & academic forums. He is a founder member of 2 semiconductor startups and played the role of technical advisor to multiple silicon valley startup companies.
 
Srinivasa Gutta received B.E (Electronics and Communication) degree from Osmania University and M.S (Electrical Engineering) from University of Texas at San Antonio. He has 19 years of experience in SOC Design, Verification, Architecture and bringing silicon to Production. He worked at various companies in USA and India - CommQuest Technologies (acquired by IBM), Lucent Technologies/Agere Systems, AMD, Ineda Systems and SoCtronics. He worked in various capacities and roles like Design Engineer, Technical Lead, SOC Architect, Manager and Director of Engineering leading large SOC teams. The products he worked on as Technical Lead are very successful and shipped multi-million units bringing billions of dollars revenue to the companies. His most successful products are World’s first PCI modem, World's first 56Kbit modem, ADSL-Lite modems, Sirius Satellite Radio Chipset, First Fully Synthesizable DSP Processor, Vision (VX) Series Apps Processors, World's first fusion processor Ontario/Zacate APU. He has a number of US patents and publications to his name.
 
DVR Murthy, with over 21 years industry experience is a principal Consultant at VEDA IIT and SoCtronics . Prior to this he served with QualCore Logic as Director (Projects) for seven years heading the IP development and Verification Group. He also worked with HAL for fourteen years.
 
DR Gude, an industry veteran, is the founder of many successful companies like CuTe Solutions , VEDA IIT , QualCore Logic Ltd , Virtual IP Group Inc ., Pacific Semiconductors Inc . In the early part of his career, he worked with SMOS and other companies in USA . He is in ASIC design industry of Silicon Valley for close to two decades and has been closely working with world class semiconductor foundries.
 
Tirumal Srikanth Singari Teaches Physical design in VEDA IIT and has 10 years of Industry experience. Worked in Physical design for different technologies spanned from 130nm to 28nm on more than 20 chips of different complexities. Currently taking care of TurnKey projects for some of the customers.At Full Chip Level has good knowledge on Bump planning,IO Ring Generation,Partitioning and FullChip Timing Closure. Involved in grooming of many P&R engineers in VEDA. Worked on different Domain Chips such as Graphics, Processors, Wireless HDMI transmitters, Base Band, Networking.

M.S. in VLSI engineering from VEDA IIT(JNTU) in 2004.
 
Debashis Chakraborty, is having over 27 years Industry experience, currently working as Project Lead at VEDA. Earlier to this he served HAL, Hyderabad in various positions. He worked as consultant in USA and for RCI, Hyderabad for their missile projects.
   
 
Satish Khanna is a technocrat with more than 3 decades of experience in various industries and business. He has been working as a free-lance consultant with CDAC, IICT, VEDAIIT and other software and teaching companies/institutions for more than a decade. He is currently working as Project Lead with VEDA IIT.
   
 
Prasad Kantamneni is a User Experience professional with more than 15 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies.

He specializes in data driven design, and was the principal architect of the Eye-Tracking platform at Yahoo!. His work at Yahoo! led to significant user experience and revenue improvements.

His experience covers multiple devices across domains such as the aviation, supply chain management, in-vehicle information systems, web search, online advertising and shopping, rural India, cross cultural design and embedded devices. He holds a number of Patents, and is considered an expert in User Experience metrics, and design based on cognitive principles.

One of the achievements he is most proud of is using data to build a case and drive the launch of the search assistance feature (also known as search suggestions) at Yahoo!. A feature that touches almost all internet users across the world today.
   
 
Satyam Kantamneni is a design leader with more than a decade of experience building and guiding the product user experience for several fortune 500 companies. Over this time he has had significant impact on the Product User Experience at PayPal, Fidelity Information Systems, Nationwide Insurance and Siemens where he held varying User Experience positions.

Satyam is currently the Sr. Director of Customer Experience at Citrix, where he leads product design for the company's enterprise products. As a design leader, Satyam has been instrumental in building PayPal's India Design Center from the ground up, as well as the Citrix Product Design group in California, of which he is a founding member.

Satyam received his master's degree in Human Factors Engineering from Wright State University, and is also a graduate of Harvard Business School's General Management program. Satyam often writes and speaks about design and it's impact on business.
   
 
 
 
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