Dr. Subir Saha
CTO, IonIdea
Dr. Subir Saha, before joining IonIdea as CTO,was heading the Research group of Nokia Siemens Network at Bangalore driving a team of 14 researchers to deliver innovations for NSN services business. Before joining NSN, Dr. Saha had spent around 5 years in Motoroal Lab at Bangalore doing research and research management in the domain of Next Generation Network with a focus in Security, Privacy and Identity Management, In between, Dr. Saha successfully incubated 2 companies to explore IPR generation specific to Indian Market. Dr. Saha is VoIP/IMS guru and has few standard contributions in 3GPP, TISPAN, IETF. Before joining Motorola, Dr. Saha was Chief Architect of VoIP group in Hughes Software System (Aricent) in Bangalore and the same with a start-up, LongBoard Inc in Santa Clara. Dr. Saha has to his credit more than 20 filed and 3 issued patents along with more than a dozen publication in telecom domain in many International Conferences. He is well known speaker in many International Conferences and an Innovation Activist who preaches younger Indians in innovation through lectures. Dr.Saha is active IEEE member and IEEE COMSOC vice-chair. Dr. Saha has a Ph.D. in Physics from BITS, Pilani and is a Post-doctoral fellow from TIFR, Mumbai. He did research in Experimental Solid State Physics and Materials Science. He is an innovation activist and inspires young students into innovation.