Company — Leadership

Built by engineers.
Run by engineers.

The leadership behind VLSI EXPERT comes from inside the semiconductor industry — Synopsys, Cadence, Magma, LSI Logic, NXP and HCL. Not from education or business first. From silicon first.

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Founders

The founding team.

Puneet Mittal

Founder & CEO

Former Synopsys, Cadence, Magma, LSI Logic. B.E. EEE — COER. M.E. — BITS Pilani. MBA — Symbiosis Pune. Left corporate in 2016 to build VLSI EXPERT full-time. Published author. Udemy instructor. Guest Faculty at DIAT Pune for Low Power Design. Personally takes student counselling calls.

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Niti Gupta

Co-Founder & CTO

Former NXP, Cadence, HCL. Co-founder of ChipGrad. Leads technology and product development at VLSI EXPERT. Responsible for the ChipGrad platform and VE's internal product portfolio including EDA tool development.

Shalini Rathi

Head of Training & Operations

Leads training operations, batch management and academic program delivery across VLSI EXPERT centers. Responsible for the day-to-day execution of all training programs and institutional partnerships.

Faculty & Experts

Industry practitioners. Not just educators.

VLSI EXPERT's trainers come from active careers in semiconductor design — Physical Design, Verification, Analog, EDA tools. They teach what they've done, not what they've read.

Vyom Sharma

Sr. Frontend Verification & Trainer

Industry experience in frontend verification. Trains ASIC Verification and SystemVerilog/UVM tracks at VLSI EXPERT.

Dr. Kanika Nagpal

Circuit Design & Analog Trainer

PhD-level expertise in analog and circuit design. Delivers the Analog Design curriculum at VLSI EXPERT.

Balakumaran Durairaj

Sr. Physical Design Engineer & Trainer

Senior Physical Design Engineer with production tapeout experience. Trains Physical Design at VLSI EXPERT.

Built by engineers.Run by engineers.

The founding team.

Industry practitioners. Not just educators.

Built by engineers.
Run by engineers.