Instructor

Rajesh Y Pendurkar LinkedIn

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RAJESH PENDURKAR, Ph.D., an accomplished researcher and computer design scientist, is an engineering leader and an entrepreneur with more than 20 years’ experience in hardware and software engineering. He has focused on high-end microprocessor design and test, system on chip (SoC) architecture, design, verification, DFx, CAD, software algorithms, product qualification and ramp-up. His innovative leadership has been demonstrated at multinational tech leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Broadcom Inc., Wipro Ltd. and RMI Corp., a Silicon Valley startup in the semiconductor space. His research interests include design for debug, built-in self-test, optimization algorithms, and machine learning. With more than 20 publications and six patents in memory test software, Pendurkar is a senior member of IEEE and has presented numerous times at the IEEE conferences and workshops. He is founder of TriSquare Sense LLC, an IC product development and consulting firm, and has consulted on ASIC Design at Intel, and Google and helped drive hardware strategy at a startup. Pendurkar has a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from University of Pune, India, a master’s in computer systems engineering from Northeastern University, an MBA from Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and a doctorate in computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Associated Program(s)

VLSI and Semiconductor Engineering

Practical DFT Concepts for ASICs, SoC and SiP