Amit K Gupta, Founder

Amit, founder of GT Silicon, has been in the ICT industry for over 15 years. He has been with the organizations like CeNSE (IISc), Freescale, Sarnoff etc. Amit is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, IISc and IIM Bangalore. He has produced an award winning master’s thesis at IISc, has a patent and many research publications to his credit. He is the recipient of DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation (IIGP) Award and TiE-UP Young Entrepreneur Award.

Amit is responsible for business development, sales, operations and product engineering. Under his leadership GT Silicon has served numerous customers worldwide and has been recognised as CII Top 10 Promising Start-Ups.

Prof Amey Karkare, Adviser

Prof Karkare has completed his PhD from IIT Bombay in 2009, and B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1998. He is an Associate Professor and in the department of CSE at IIT Kanpur. He has more than 7 years of industrial experience most of which is in the area of Compiler Optimizations.

Prof Karkare has received P. K. Kelkar Young Research Fellowship at IIT Kanpur. He has been visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond and IIT Bombay. He has keen interest in promoting IoT and wearable technologies among STEM community. Prof Karkare advises GT Silicon on adoption of software technologies.

Prof K.V.S. Hari, Adviser

Prof Hari is a Professor at the Department of ECE, IISc, Bangalore. He has been a visiting faculty at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He is the Fellow of IEEE, IETE and INAE. He has held numerous positions in various technical bodies of the Govt of India. He has been the PI of several IISc-KTH joint projects.

Prof Hari founded ESQUBE Communication Solutions Pvt Ltd, a communication solutions provider. His research interests include Signal Processing with applications to indoor positioning & navigation and array signal processing. He advises GT Silicon for the development, implementation and awareness creation of the niche technologies.