| Management |
| Dr. Achyut K. Dutta, President |
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Dr. Dutta is responsible for Banpil’s management and technology direction including R&D activities related to chip-to-chip electrical interconnects, image sensors, and solar cell technologies. He specializes in design and development of high-speed modules, microwave design, and simulation for microwave level interconnects, and various optical components including photodetectors, light-emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, and sub-systems. Prior to Banpil, Dr. Dutta held senior management and research positions at Fujitsu and NEC in the U.S. and Japan respectively. He was Senior Design Manager at Fujitsu, USA where he established a high-speed module design center from scratch and successfully transferred R&D work to manufacturing in Japan that generated more than $350M in revenues in 2000. At NEC, he managed numerous projects and contributed in many optical components and subsystems for general and communication applications. Dr. Dutta has authored over 100 technical papers on optical devices, high-speed packaging, and opto-electronics interconnects, and holds more than 50 patents. He has also edited three books on WDM Technologies (Publisher: Academic Press, Boston, MA). He continues to serve as organizer, general and conference chair, program chair, and technical program committee member of numerous conferences including SPIE, OSA, and IEEE. He is a Fellow of the SPIE and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Dutta was selected as one of three recipients for 1996 IEEE LEOS Engineering Achievement Award and a recipient of NEC's best R&D award for POF-Link. Dr. Dutta received his MS and Ph.D. degrees both in Electronics Engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan. |
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Robert Olah, Engineering |
| Robert is the engineering lead at Banpil Photonics. He brings more than 25 years of experience in technology development and management at various semiconductor companies. Most recently, Robert was the VP of Engineering at Intelleflex and Lightspeed Semiconductor before that, responsible for next generation FPGA, state of the art IO with digitally controlled impedance, 1.6Gb/s differential interface for Hyper transport and 3.125 Gb/s SERDES development. Previously, he held key engineering management roles at I-Cube, Xilinx, Sierra, and VLSI. Robert's expertise is in circuit design of both analog and digital, CAD methodology and off chip high-speed interfaces. Robert holds 15 patents in circuit and process technology. He received his MSEE from the University of Minnesota. |
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Patrick Oduor, Marketing & Business Development |
| Patrick is responsible for strategy, marketing & business development at Banpil Photonics. He has over 15 years international experience at global companies including Fujitsu and Toshiba. Recently at Fujitsu, Patrick worked as a business development manager supporting the CEO of its local subsidiary. He also worked as a venture capital liaison engaged in deal flow sourcing, market research, due diligence, strategic partnering and investment promotion between start-ups and Fujitsu corporate R&D and product groups. Earlier at Fujitsu, Patrick held various positions in product management, technical and business development. This included serving on strategy and product committees in Europe, launching new products and services in the US, and product deployment and technology transfer to Japan and Asia. Prior to Fujitsu, Patrick performed R&D work on MPEG encoder-decoders at Toshiba Corporation in Japan. Patrick holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and received his MSEE from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. |
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Rabi Sengupta, Research and Development |
| Rabi brings more than 15 years of design and management experience in signal integrity, high speed board, system, and IC industries and previously worked at Lightspeed Semiconductor and Actel with responsibility for development of high speed reference boards for FPGA. He has expertise in circuit design of both analog and digital, CAD methodology and chip interfaces for communication applications and also sensor design and their testing for bio-medical and industrial applications. At Banpil, Rabi is responsible for interconnect simulation, layout, prototype-buildup and testing and he is also involved in development of solar cells and nano-sensors for numerous commercial and defense applications. Rabi obtained his MSEE degree from Columbia University.
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