Evaluation team profiles

Tech Leader

General purpose and Microcontroller Sub-Group 

STMicroelectronics, India

Senior Principal Engineer

CE - Technology

 Arm

Jose John Thottungal is an accomplished Embedded Engineer with 10+ years of experience. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Jose possesses expertise in firmware development, microcontroller programming, and architecture verification. He has successfully developed test suites for verifying diverse CPU architectures, including RME. Jose's notable achievements include the development of boot code for Arm Architecture Compliance Kit (ACK), where he showcased his ability to debug complex issues and optimize performance. Furthermore, he has successfully integrated ACK with various compiler toolchains, ensuring seamless compatibility and efficient code generation.

Joyjeet Kar has been working in the Semiconductor industry from past 10+ years, contributing to front-end design of Arm Processors and System-IPs. His work involves building tools and methodologies to enhance effectiveness of Memory systems architecture design and verification.

 

Mentoring is something that he likes to spend time on and had a good bit of experience mentoring junior engineers at work. He has also attended as a mentor in a 4-day bootcamp organized by Gates foundation in partnership with Arm and UNICEF in WFP Headquarters, Munich to solve Sustainability challenges through technology. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology.

Kapil Mittal is currently working as “Principal Design Engineer” at ARM Noida. He has over 12 years of work experience with expertise in Memory Circuit Design, Memory Characterization and using ML to optimize Memory verification. In past, he had worked at Synopsys, Cadence, and STMicroelectronics. He pursued his MBA from IIM Lucknow, B.Tech in Electronics from YMCA Faridabad, and professional courses on Memory Design from IIT Delhi.

Principal Engineer

SE - SoC Engineering

Parivesh Chandra is a semiconductor professional with a background in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Graduating from NIT Warangal in 2006.He has over 17 years of expertise in the design and verification of complex electronic designs. He is specialized in CPU and processor complex verification, with a track record spanning over 15 years in this field. With a deep understanding of ARMv8/ARM64 and ARMv9 architectures, he possess extensive knowledge in this domain. He has hands-on experience in verifying major coherency protocols and are well-versed in x86 core, North Bridge, and South Bridge architectures.

Having been involved in over 10 tape outs across multiple products, he has a strong background in the end-to-end design and development process. In addition to verification prowess, he has also been involved in the complete lifecycle of IP development, starting from specification, and culminating in RTL implementation.

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Nithin Jindal has total industry experience of around 13 years. In his first half of the career, he had worked on SRAM design and characterization and in the later half worked to support memory flows and methodologies. He has developed multiple tools to improve efficiency and debugging in layout and design activities of SRAM design flow. He holds bachelor's degree in Electronics and communication engineering from Thapar University.

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Desikan Srinivasan works as Director of Engineering at Arm. He has been working on the design verification domain for more than 25 years. He is currently managing a part of CPU design verification team in Arm Bangalore and has been with Arm for more than 16+ years. He had worked for IBM and Transwitch in the past.

SE - Physical IP

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Mohit is a semiconductor professional working in Arm for more than 10 years. He is skilled in complex circuit design and have worked upon memory architecture on various technology nodes (including latest ~3nm).  He is presently working as an IP lead responsible for complete lifecycle of product development starting from specification to final tape out. He holds expertise in building and managing teams to achieve high standards of product development along with defining product specification and roadmap with external customers. He has B.Tech (ECE) from Netaji Subhash institute of technology passed out in year 2012.

Dr. Verma is working as an Assistant Professor in the Electronics Engineering Department at Rajkiya Engineering College, Sonbhadra Uttar Pradesh since 08 Dec 2017. Prior joining to REC Sonbhadra, he worked at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur HP as a Lecturer in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department. He has more than 7 years of teaching and research experience. His expertise and research interests are centered around cognitive radio networks, channel modeling, and circuit design. He has published more than 25 research papers in International Journals/Conferences and book chapters of repute and delivered invited talks in FDPs/Conferences. He was honored with multiple awards, including the Commendable Research Award at DTU Delhi for his research publications, Award of Excellence, and Appreciation Awards at various levels. He has done his M.Tech in Microwave & Optical Communication from DTU Delhi. He also holds a Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from DTU Delhi.

Ramesh P is currently working as an Associate Professor at College of Engineering Munnar affiliated to APJ Abdul Kalam Kerala Technological university. His current areas include developing assistive technology applications , Implementation of High speed multipliers and developing packaging solutions for micro devices using LTCC. He has completed his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in the year 2012 where a micro power source using PEM fuel cell technology was fabricated and packaged using LTCC technology and used it as an alternative for battery in field deployed electronic applications. He has got about 40 research publications in reputed journals and conferences  and 8 patents to his credit.

P S Mann received his Bachelor’s degree (B.Tech) with Honours (Institute Gold Medal) in Information Technology from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India, Master’s degree (M.Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from IKG Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India. He has published more than 80 research papers in various International Journals, and Conferences. He is reviewer of many distinguished journals published by IEEE, Elsevier and Springer. He has delivered experts talks at various organizations and chaired many conference as well. His research interest includes Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing and Sensor Networks. 

Rajkiya Engineering College Sonbhadra 

Dr. Abhinav Gupta is working as Assistant Professor in Electronics Engineering Department, Rajkiya Engineering College, Sonbhadra, India.Dr. Abhinav received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, in the year 2008, M.Tech degree in Microelectronics and VLSI Design from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Allahabad, India in 2011, and Ph.D. degree from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Prayagraj, India, in 2018. He has more than 8 years of teaching and research experience.  His research interests include modeling, simulation, and characterization of advanced, scalable MOS devices and circuits for analog/RF applications.He has published more than 40 research papers in international journals and conferences of repute. He has also published two patents  in the year 2022. Dr. Abhinav is a senior member of IEEE. He has guided 2 MTech students and currently 1 PhD student is enrolled under him.

Dr. Biju Paul is a professor in Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology.Completed  B E in Computer Science from Bharathiar University. Completed Masters in Internet Computing from University of Wales NEWI, UK. Awarded with PhD for his research in Wireless Sensors Networks from VELS University. With Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology from 2004. Interested areas Enterprise IOT, Wireless Sensor Network, Security in Computing. Published many conference papers and organized many international conferences. Visited many universities in Japan, UK, USA, Australia as a part of academic and research collaborations.