Dr. Sandeep Kakde

Dr. Sandeep Kakde currently serves as a Senior Manager at Cientra, with extensive experience in architecture design and circuit/layout design, particularly in analog blocks such as OPAMPs and Low Dropout Voltage Regulators. Prior to this role, Dr. Kakde was an Assistant Professor at Yashwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, contributing significantly to research with over 32 IEEE conference papers and numerous publications in reputed journals, while also receiving a Teaching and Research Excellence Award. Previous roles include Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services, and Senior Design Engineer positions at Sanyo LSI Technology and Bharat Electronics Limited, focusing on full custom layout development and design methodologies. Dr. Kakde holds a PhD in LDPC Decoder from Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, alongside M.Tech and B.E. degrees in VLSI Design and Electronics, respectively, from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering and Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology.