Shantanu Jha
VP Media Processing Strategic Business Unit

Shantanu is responsible for DSP applications in Audio/Speech and Image/Video domains.

He brings in 14 years of industry experience in DSP and ASIC.

Prior to Ittiam, Shantanu was a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) in TI, a recognition of excellence representing the top 7% of the company's technical people worldwide.

Detailed Profile
Shantanu Jha joined Texas Instruments India in 1987 as a Software Engineer. In the initial years he developed high speed simulators and simulation models for TI's IC devices and EDA tools for automating the synthesis and timing analysis of critical components of VLSI designs such as data path modules. The innovative solutions that Shantanu developed as a part of these projects laid the foundation for many subsequent efforts in TI India.

During 1992-94, Shantanu worked on design automation systems for TI's family of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) products.

In 1995, Shantanu was the Lead Engineer for TI India's first effort in DSP Applications Software in the DTAD (Digital Telephone Answering Device) domain. He led the implementation of proprietary and standard Voice Coders on TI DSPs, achieving voice compression efficiency and quality that was considered benchmark in the industry. He also developed many innovative algorithms for data management on Flash EEPROM devices as a part of this effort.

Since 1998, Shantanu was leading ASIC design flow efforts in TI India ASIC Product Development Center. The tools from his team were key enablers for deep submicron VLSI designs. He is widely regarded as an expert in software development and microelectronics.

Shantanu was elected as MGTS (Member Group Technical Staff) in 1994 and SMTS (Senior Member Group Technical Staff) in 1998. These are key worldwide recognition for technologists in TI, who progress on the 'Technical Ladder' in parallel with the 'Management Ladder'. For example, SMTS represents fewer than 7% of the TI technical population.

Shantanu has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1987.