Sandeep Kumar

Dr. Sandeep Kumar is an experienced executive in the semiconductor industry. In his most recent position at Silicon Labs based in Austin, Texas, he worked for over 18 years and was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations. He has managed manufacturing teams, supply chain, planning, CAD, process engineering, package engineering, product and test engineering, quality assurance, failure analysis, as well as prototype production and reliability test labs. Sandeep has experience working closely with the design, marketing, and sales teams, and customers addressing their geopolitical concerns. Prior to joining Silicon Labs, Sandeep was responsible for worldwide product and test engineering for the storage business at Agere Systems, Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Labs, where he worked closely with the internal factories in the United States and Asia. As a member of the Bell Labs technical staff, Sandeep was part of the group that designed ISDN U-interface chips, Speaker Phone Codec and Sigma-Delta A/D converters. Sandeep has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Evansville in Indiana and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Sandeep also attended and completed Wharton’s Leadership Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as a Board Advisor for Vroom-Power, and has served on the Board of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas. He also serves on the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department’s Industry Advisory Council for Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.