Panel Members
Mr Danish Sheikh is a Analog IP/CAD Methodology Manager at Western Digital. He has an overall experience of 17 years in analog CAD methodology and circuit design for power management circuits. Danish received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication from Jamia, New Delhi, in 2006 and a master's in VLSI Design from Bits Pilani in 2008. From 2007 - 2014 he was a senior member of the technical staff with Cadence, working on custom IC product development. From 2014 -2020 he served as a senior technical lead, leading an analog IP design team at NXP and later at MaxLinear Technologies. Since 2020 he is been working with Western Digital Bangalore, India, as a technologist, leading an overall effort for analog and mixed-signal CAD methodology and IP development. His areas of interest include custom IC analog and mixed-signal design and layout automation, EDA methodology development, model order reduction techniques, and machine learning and AI techniques for EDA. Danish possesses more than 12 research publications and holds 2 patents. Danish has been a senior IEEE member since 2023 and is actively contributing to IEEE activities with CAS Bangalore.
Dr. G S Javed is an Analog IC design manager with 15+ years of experience in design of Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) and SerDes IP Circuits. Since 2023, he is the Analog IP Design Manager in the Advanced Design division at Intel Foundry. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He worked on low power integrated instrumentation circuits for sensing applications. In 2015, he founded King Consultants Education (http://tiny.cc/KingConsultants) to work on Design Thinking and Experiential Learning. He also is an advisor/guide for PhD aspirants. From 2020 - 2023, he was the Technical Lead - Analog for the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and DDR PHY team in Intel. From 2016 - 2020, he led the team on High Speed Circuits, setup and managed the R&D team and managed a team of 10+ designers at Terminus Circuits Pvt Ltd. From 2012 - 2016, he was a Senior Research Fellow at IISc working on integrated sensor interfaces. He has over 30 peer reviewed journals and IEEE conference publications to his credit. He is an active IEEE volunteer of 15 years. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (2016) and was inducted into the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) - the Honour society of IEEE in 2017 for Academic Excellence. He has served as the Chairperson of IEEE TEMS Bangalore Chapter in 2023. He is associated as a Member of the EXECOM of IEEE CASS, SSCS, Sensors Council, SIGHT, Consultant Network and RFID council in Bangalore. He was the Educational activities Chair/Co-Chair in the IEEE Bangalore Section execom from 2017 - 2019. He is also an active speaker and motivator on Analog Circuit Design, High Speed Interface Design, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Research Methodologies. Technical Writing and Spirit of Entrepreneurship. He has delivered multiple talks in VTU, Belagavi sponsored and ATAL Sponsored Faculty Development Programs (FDP).
Prabhavati P is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skillsoc Technologies LLP and a seasoned academician with over 27 years of experience in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Formerly an Associate Professor at BNMIT, Bengaluru, she has been a driving force in bridging the gap between academia and the fast-evolving semiconductor industry. Her areas of expertise include ASIC Design, Low Power Electronics, and IP Development, with notable IP designs such as K delta 1 Sigma ADC, Non-Binary LDPC codec, H.264 Decoder, and SAR-based ADC. Prabhavati holds with a focused research background in Low Power methodology for SoCs. A strong advocate for collaborative innovation, Prabhavati has been working with startups for creating avenues for product development and skill development with practical exposure for students and professionals alike. Under her leadership at Skillsoc, she has launched hands-on training programs with Open-source tools with a strong objective of Democratization of chip fabrication in ASIC Design and SoC design, aligning educational practices with industry needs. A recognized speaker and mentor, she has led Faculty Development Programs and published in reputed journals, and presented at premier conferences like VLSID. She has also successfully executed funded research from VTU-sponsored project on CMOS standard cell libraries. At Skillsoc, she continues to empower students and professionals through short term trainings and ML Assisted PD fostering strong industry-academia collaborations.
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