Enabling AI for Everyone Ambient Scientific

Debajyoti Pal
CTO

Dr. Debajyoti (Debu) Pal currently serves as the CTO of Ambient Scientific. He is a renowned expert of AI/ML algorithms and architectures and, he comes with deep knowledge of Training and Inference having developed algorithms, architectures, silicon and systems for Machine Learning/Deep Learning since 2010. A 30-year veteran of the communications, networking and semiconductor industry, he is a well-respected technologist and has been an IEEE Fellow since 2002 for making seminal contributions to Digital Communications. Debu is a successful entrepreneur and a highly regarded executive in the broadband access industry for his leadership in technology, product development and, worldwide commercialization of chipsets for broadband access over copper. He cofounded (with Prof. Thomas Kailath of Stanford University) Excess Bandwidth Corp. (acquired by Virata Corp.), where Debu was the founding CEO, CTO and VP Engineering. Also, He was a founding member of a well-known successful startup, Amati Communications Corp. (pioneered ADSL and developed ITU standards). Amati was acquired by Texas Instruments. Prior to Ambient, Debu held the position of Chief Scientist, Machine Learning at Cadence Design Systems. Prior to Cadence, Debu served as the Vice President, Machine Learning at Wave Computing. Debu is a broadband access pioneer. Before joining Wave Computing, He was Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm. Debu has also served as Senior Vice President and CTO of Ikanos Communications until Ikanos was acquired by Qualcomm. Prior to Ikanos, he was CTO of Tallwood Venture Capital, a $600M fund focused on semiconductor and the echo system around it. Prior to Tallwood, Debu has served as Vice President of Engineering at Virata Corp. and GlobespanVirata Inc., the broadband access market leaders. In the past, he held senior technical and technical management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Intel.

Debu holds eight granted U.S. patents and has published more than 20 technical papers. He was a Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford between 1997-2009. Debu received a B.Tech. (Honors) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Eng. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, an MSEE from Washington State University, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University under the guidance of legendary professor, Dr. Thomas Kailath. He was elected a Chartered Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in 2003 for demonstrated industry leadership and entrepreneurship.

Haresh Shah
VP - Hardware Engineering

Highly accomplished professional with a successful broad-based career defining and guiding the implementation of best practices and standards to strengthen and drive expedited & competitive growth. Expertise in building and leading transition with cross-functional teams to achieve transformational solutions. Skilled trouble-shooter continually focused on identifying technical issues, while aligning end-user needs.  Seeks novel, cost efficient solutions to challenging problems. Brings expertise in architecture at the chip and large-scale system hardware designs for products spanning custom COT flow multi-core asic for Network Security, DWDM long haul optical transport systems, network switching & routing silicon with high-speed serdes, network security systems, high sensitivity analog and electro-mechanical designs for Iris biometric system and free-space laser communication system. Driven by the belief that the most powerful tool to be an effective leader is good will, not authority.

Madanjit Singh
VP - Software Engineering

A senior leader with 25+ years of expertise in almost all spectrum of software from architecting to delivery of products in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Neural Network, Robotics, Analytics, Signal processing, firmware stack, Sensor fusion, custom compilers and CS applications.

Madanjit started his career with Accenture and spend brief amount of time and later-on moved to leadership role in DXC/CSC & Majesco. He is part of Ambient Scientific team since mid 2017.

A hardcore R&D engineer by heart, he is always ready to take new challenges. He is highly motivated result driven hands-on professional with strong technical, domain, analytical, business, interpersonal, communication, leadership and managerial skills.