Jury Members:
Guru is currently President & MD of ARM-India; he was appointed as MD of ARM India in June 2009. Prior to that, he was Vice-President, Engineering at ARM, San Jose, California. In 2002, Ganesan relocated to India to set up the India operations for Artisan Components Inc. Prior to ARM & Artisan, Ganesan was Director of Engineering at Synopsys, Mountain View and his business unit was acquired by Artisan Components in January 2001. His earlier assignments were with Texas Instruments, Dallas; Cadence Design Systems, San Jose & Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino. Ganesan started his career with Tata Consultancy Services after acquiring a master’s degree in engineering.
Sanjay is a technocrat with over 25 years of experience ranging across Telecom, Networking and Electronic Design and Semiconductor industry- both in India as well as the US. Prior to founding Tejas Networks, Sanjay was Managing Director of Synopys India, a global leader in Electronic Design Automation. He received the “Technovation Sarabhai Award” in 2013 for his contribution to the Indian industry from Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the “Electronics Man of the Year 2011”, from ELCINA, and was selected as one of the “Top-20 Stars of Indian Telecom Industry” by Aegis Graham Bell Awards in 2012. He is the Regional Chairman (South) of India's Telecom Export Promotion Council (TEPC), is a member of the CII National Committee on ICTE, is a member of Karnataka ICT Group 2020 and is also a member of various Government of India committees, including the National Telecom Manufacturing council.
Sunil has 22 years of experience in semiconductor industry, of which the last 16 years have been with Cypress Semiconductor. Sunil is the director of asynchronous SRAM business unit at Cypress Semiconductor. Located out of Cypress’s Bangalore office, Sunil manages the entire business operations (product definition, development, product/test engineering, marketing and customer support). Prior to this, Sunil was the director of design engineering group in Bangalore office, that developed a number of memory, clocks, USB and PSoC products.
Presently employed as the Managing Director of the India Design Center of Rambus Inc. and MNC at Bangalore, since 2011, with about 100 engineers & responsible for the complete operations of the design center which has complete IP/product development ownership. Prior to that, was the managing Director of the India design center of National Semiconductors, a US based MNC from 2000-2011 & earlier to that was the head of one of the R&D divisions in the Mil – Aero vertical in Bharath electronics a, Defense PSU. Have over 3 decades of experience in the electronics Industry, covering a wide spectrum of functions from Silicon design, System design, System engineering, and Quality systems.
Very closely work with premier engineering schools in India to foster Industry/Academia relationship and was instrumental in setting up the Advanced VLSI lab in IIT Kharagpur, along with the Corporate University relationship team. Actively involved with the industry bodies like IESA, and a member of IEEE.
Areas of interest include deep sub-micron SoC and IC design including analog circuits, wireless communication and ultra-low power management. Holds a US patent in RFID communication protocol in UHF Gen 2 tags which is still considered to be one of the lowest power RFID tag in this standard in the market.
Dr. Dhinagar has a rich and varied industrial experience of over 18 years spanning small engine design & development, engine development, engine calibration, engine durability development, R&D facilities development of new control algorithms and embedded systems. He has more than 100 patents and more than 50 publications in India & International.
At TVS Motors, He has led the team to develop the first 3-wheeler from TVSM. He also leads the Electrical and Electronics team for both New Product development and Technology projects. Before joining TVS Motor Company Ltd., he was working with the Engineering team in GE Transportation at Bangalore, which is part of GE, USA. Prior to joining GE Transportation, he had a 9 years stint in Engineering Research Centre at Tata Motors Ltd. Pune.
