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Founding Team
The two people who defined what VLSI EXPERT would be — and have run it for seventeen years.
Puneet Mittal
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Setting company direction and industry strategy — and still personally training students. Seventeen years inside semiconductor design at Synopsys, Cadence, Magma and LSI Logic before and alongside building VLSI EXPERT. The curriculum comes from production flows he has run, not from textbooks.
Niti Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Architecting the curriculum, technology platforms and delivery systems that let VLSI EXPERT scale across five centers without diluting quality. The operational backbone that turns individual expertise into a repeatable, multi-location training organisation.
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Executive Leadership
The team running operations, technology strategy and the systems the organisation depends on.
Shalini Rathi
Training & Operations
Leading training operations, batch coordination and student experience across centers — the first point of contact for students and the person who makes delivery run on schedule.
Abhishek Jain
Technology Strategy & AI
Driving technology strategy, digital transformation and AI initiatives — shaping how VLSI EXPERT applies emerging technology across training delivery, platforms and internal engineering.
Khelender Sasan
Infrastructure & Engineering Systems
Leading enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, IT operations and engineering systems — the compute and tooling backbone that keeps EDA labs running across every center.
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Technical Leadership
The engineers and educators who define what gets taught, how it gets taught, and to what standard.
Vyom Sharma
Verification & Curriculum
Driving technical excellence in advanced VLSI design and industry-aligned curriculum development. Specialises in ASIC verification — SystemVerilog, UVM and formal methods on Synopsys VCS and Verdi.
Dr. Kanika Nagpal
Analog & Programme Leadership
Leading flagship programme delivery and analog / mixed-signal training. Led the ChipTapeout programme end to end — the cohort that made VLSI EXPERT the first private institute in India to tape out silicon.
Balakumaran D
Physical Design · Chennai Center
Senior Physical Design engineer leading the Chennai center. Teaches the complete RTL-to-GDSII flow on Synopsys IC Compiler II and PrimeTime, with a focus on tool proficiency and interview readiness.
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Industry Advisory Board
Practising semiconductor professionals who keep our curriculum, hiring standards and technical direction aligned with what the industry actually requires.
Ashish Kumar Sharma
Industry advisory on semiconductor design and verification practice.
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Academic Advisory Council
Faculty and researchers who bridge academic rigour with industry practice — guiding institutional partnerships, research collaboration and curriculum depth.
Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
Academic advisory on VLSI research and curriculum depth.
LinkedIn — soonDr. Gaurav Trivedi
Academic advisory on research collaboration and institutional programmes.
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Product & Innovation
Building the platforms and products that extend VLSI EXPERT beyond services.
Neelam Jain
Product & Innovation
Leading product development and innovation initiatives — shaping the platforms, tooling and product roadmap that turn VLSI EXPERT's training and design expertise into scalable products.
Product Portfolio
ChipGrad LMS · University LMS · EDA tooling in development · custom processor IP at early stage · Innatera neuromorphic distribution.
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Distinguished Industry Experts
A visiting network from across the semiconductor industry.
Beyond our core team, VLSI EXPERT is supported by several visiting experts from leading semiconductor companies. They contribute through masterclasses, workshops, curriculum reviews, project mentoring and specialised technical sessions — bringing students into direct contact with engineers currently working on production silicon.
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Ecosystem Partners
The organisations whose tools, technology and platforms make our work possible.
Synopsys
Workforce Development Partner
Official WDP status giving students unlimited access to the full production EDA suite — IC Compiler II, PrimeTime, VCS, Verdi and Design Compiler.
Partnership Details →
Innatera
Neuromorphic Technology Partner
Distribution and programme partnership for the Pulsar neuromorphic processor — bringing edge AI silicon into our product and training portfolio.
Innatera Products →
SWS Technology
Technology Partner
Collaboration on technology and engineering initiatives supporting VLSI EXPERT's design services and product development.
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