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RV-VLSI deems it an honor to have on its Strategic Advisory Board, eminent professionals from the VLSI industry and Academia alike. These professionals are persons with proven and exceptional capabilities and bring to the RV-VLSI Board, the distilled wisdom gained through decades of experience in their chosen areas of expertise.
These are people who share the same passion, vision and exhibit the same energy levels as the management of RV-VLSI to address the much talked about and burning issue of the huge chasm that currently exists between academic learning and the practical requirements and expectations of Industry.
Members advise the CEO on matters relating to the current trends and advancements in the Semiconductor Industry, and provide valuable inputs on structuring our offerings and collaborations with industries in research and education.
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| Strategic Advisory Board Member Profiles |
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Subhash Bal
Director India Sales
Synopsys (India) EDA Software Pvt. Ltd.
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Subhash has 30 years plus experience primarily in networking, semiconductor and EDA Industries. He has held executive positions in general management, marketing, sales and product development with both start-ups and multibillion-dollar organizations. As a senior member of an executive staff, he has played a key role in fund raising, IPO, acquisition, restarts, building and developing organizations. He has also been a spokesperson and speaker at industry conferences and events because of his communication strength and knowledge of the intricacies of prevailing business situations and subject matter. He offers professional skills in marketing, business initiatives and development, sales and marcom strategy; evangelizing new technology; definition, positioning, launch and management of product families; OEM, End user sales, channel management. He is adept in dealing with chips, software, and board and box products in both domestic and international markets.
Education:
- MBA, University of Santa Clara; Santa Clara, CA
- MSEE, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA
- BSEE, IIT; Bombay, India
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Jean-Luc Gaudiot
Professor & Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California – Irvine
Fellow, IEEE, 1999
Fellow, AAAS, 2007
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He is currently a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining UCI in January 2002, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California since 1982, where he served as Director of the Computer Engineering Division for three years. He has also designed distributed microprocessor systems at Teledyne Controls, Santa Monica, California (1979-1980) and performed research in innovative architectures at the TRW Technology Research Center, El Segundo, California (1980-1982). He frequently acts as consultant to companies that design high-performance computer architectures, and has served as an expert witness in patent infringement and product liability cases. His research interests include multithreaded architectures, fault-tolerant multiprocessors, and implementation of reconfigurable architectures. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers. His research has been sponsored by NSF, DoE, and DARPA, as well as a number of industrial organizations.
Education:
Professor Jean-Luc Gaudiot received the Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique, Paris, France in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977 and 1982, respectively.
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Raghu Panicker
Sales Director
Mentor Graphics, India
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Raghu spearheads the company’s Sales organization and is fully responsible for Sales, Strategic operations and positioning the Company for continued success in India. Raghu brings to this position a wealth of VLSI and Semiconductor Industry business experience, stemming from his early years of Research and Development at Semiconductor Complex. Raghu, has over 15 years of sales, business leadership and channel experience in the VLSI and Semiconductor industry.
Raghu joined Mentor Graphics from Telelogic India where he was the Regional Sales Manager for Enterprise Architecture range of products for India and Srilanka. He started his career with Semiconductor Complex Limited, Chandigarh in 1991 and during his tenure held a number of different roles in Research & Development and Sales & Marketing. From 2000 - 2005, Raghu was the Channel Manager for Mentor Graphics India responsible for Sales, Customer Support and Business Development for Mentor Graphics products in India.
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Rajiv Gupta
Director IP & Design Services
Jazz Semiconductors
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Mr. Rajiv Gupta has been Director of IP & Design Services at Jazz Semiconductor since 2005. Prior to joining Jazz, he held position of Director of processor development at Mindspeed technologies, Conexant Systems and Rockwell Semiconductor Systems.
He has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He has led development of several generations of high performance, Low Power VLSI processor cores for wire-line and wireless products. He has traveled extensively to Japan, China, Taiwan and Europe to evaluate and license critical embedded technologies for Wireless products.
He is well connected with universities worldwide having participated in several university research programs at MIT, UCLA, University of Arizona, UC San Diego, University of Portugal, Swiss federal Institute and UCI.
He is holder of 13 US and international patents and has degrees in Solid State Physics and Electrical engineering.
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