Title: General Manager
Company: Onsemi
Location: Saratoga, California, United States
Debajyoti Pal, PhD, general manager at Onsemi, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Scientists for dedication, achievements, and leadership in information technology.
Dr. Pal, a distinguished and tenured leader in the information technology sector, has excelled in his latest role as the general manager of automotive SerDes at Onsemi in San Jose, California, since 2022. Leveraging decades of expertise in the high-speed communications, networking and semiconductor sectors, he has been lauded as an expert, particularly in machine learning, wired links, deep learning algorithms, signal processing, semiconductors and architectures.
At Onsemi, Dr. Pal has been building a business application and developing customer technologies and products. He also engages in high-speed connectivity between sensors, which operates at multi-gigabit speeds ranging from 2 to 16 gigabits per link.
Beginning his career at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, in 1982, Dr. Pal was a senior engineer. Subsequently, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, as a consultant in 1985 before becoming a member of its technical staff from 1990 to 1994. Over the next decade, Dr. Pal garnered progressive roles at Amati Communications Corporation (now owned by Texas Instruments) and Excess Bandwidth Corporation, which he founded and was later acquired by Virata. He then worked for Virata in Santa Clara as its vice president of engineering before founding another company, Telicos Corporation, in Sunnyvale, California, where he remained until 2004.
Continually progressing, Dr. Pal held high-level positions with Qualcomm, Wave Computing, and Cadence Design Systems Inc. He also gained experience in the classroom, beginning as a consulting assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in Stanford, California, from 1997 to 1998 and later in the same capacity between 2002 and 2009.
Becoming highly educated in his field, Dr. Pal received a Bachelor of Technology in electronics and electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur in 1980, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Washington State University in 1982, and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1990.
Dr. Pal was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2002 and is recognized as an elected charter member of Indus Entrepreneurs. Active outside of work, he has served as a sponsor for the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. Based in Palo Alto, California, the foundation raises child and maternal health funds at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine.
In light of his early success, Dr. Pal received a Johnson Electrical Engineering Award from Washington State University in 1981. He also secured numerous patents, including for a Gateway device for performing communication with various devices in home networks and wide area networks, for a digitally-tunable echo-canceling analog front end for wire line communications devices, and for a method and apparatus for receiving signals in a multi-path environment.
Among other accomplishments, Dr. Pal was responsible for developing the worldwide commercialization of high-speed broadband access technologies and their chipsets. The DSL technology and products he created have been shipped worldwide to major carriers, such as AT&T, British Telecom, Dell Canada, Deutsche Telecom and France Telecom. Over 500 billion chipsets have been shipped globally throughout Dr. Pal’s career, a testament to his hard work.
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