Summary
Saroj Rout is a semiconductor professor, entrepreneur and IC design expert with over two decades of experience in mixed-signal, analog and RF integrated circuits and system-level design. He has led more than 14 full IC product developments (30+ revisions), with two products exceeding 2 billion units shipped, and co-invented eight patents in IC design and metamaterials. As a founder and VP in fabless startups and a principal design consultant, he combines hands-on circuit architecture, layout and system modeling with product and team development. An author of a Springer-Nature book on active metamaterials and a published researcher with 400 citations, he also mentors the next generation through university teaching and industry-focused VLSI centers. Notably, he brought NSF SBIR leadership to his startup work, blending academic rigor with commercial execution.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at Tufts University