Santanu Dutta received his Ph.D. in Electrical (Computer) Engineering
from Princeton University in 1996, an M.A. in Engineering from Princeton
University in 1994, an M.S. in Electrical (Computer) Engineering from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and a B.Tech. (with Honors)
in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1987. From 1987 to 1989, Santanu
was a full-time research staff member at the VLSI Design Laboratory of
Texas Instruments (TI), Dallas, where he was involved in the research
of timing algorithms and development of prototype CAD tools. As a student
at UT Austin, on a leave of absence from TI from 1989 to 1991, Santanu's
main focus was path-tracing algorithms for interconnect analysis. From
1991 to 1992, he worked part-time at Ross Technology Inc., Austin (Texas) as a
circuit designer and a full-custom-layout engineer. From September 1992
till August 1996, he was a doctoral student at Princeton University, working
on the design and analysis of video signal processing systems. During this
time, he spent a year at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies), investigating the impact of deep-sub-micron VLSI techniques on architectural/system design. From August 1996 till April 2005, Santanu was at Philips Semiconductors, leading a video competence group and managing various SOC and IP design projects targeting the digital television and set-top box markets. Since April 2005, Santanu is a senior video architect and manager at nVIDIA Corporation. Santanu's main research interests include
design of high-performance video signal processing architectures, circuit
simulation & analysis, and design & synthesis of low-power & testable digital
systems. He has many refereed publications and several patents pending in
related areas. Santanu is an Adjunct Professor at the Santa Clara University
and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.