Title: General Manager
Company: Onsemi
Location: Saratoga, California, United States
Debajyoti Pal, PhD, Fellow IEEE, general manager at Onsemi, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Scientists for dedication, achievements, and leadership in information and communications technology (ICT).
Dr. Pal, a distinguished and tenured leader in the ICT 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 architecture.
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 and worked on the design of the well-known 80286 microprocessor. Subsequently, he started working at 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 co-founded with Professor Thomas Kailath of Stanford University. Excess Bandwidth was later acquired by Virata Corporation. 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 Ikanos Communications, 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 as a consulting professor between 2002 and 2009.
Becoming highly educated in his field, Dr. Pal received a Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) 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 under the guidance of legendary professor, Dr. Thomas Kailath.
Dr. Pal was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2002 for contributions to the theory and practice of the use of excess bandwidth and diversity in adaptive equalization for data transmission. Also, he was recognized as an elected charter member of Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in 2003 for demonstrated industry leadership and entrepreneurship. Active outside of work, he has served as a donor 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, NTT, KDDI, British Telecom, Bell Canada, Deutsche Telecom, Telefonica, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, BSNL, Bharti Airtel, as well by many medium and small carriers including Telmex, Italtel, Belgacom, Hanaro Telecom (a subsidiary of SK Telecom), Chunghwa Telecom, Cablevision, SingTel etc. several hundred million chipsets have been shipped globally into the telecom broadband infrastructure including Central Offices (CO), Nodes and Pedestals, as well as into the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and the Residential Gateways (RGW) on the subscriber side, throughout Dr. Pal’s career, a testament to his hard work.
Dr. Pal has also made noteworthy contributions to field of Control Theory. He has jointly pioneered (with Dr. U.B. Desai, founding Director of IIT-Hyderabad, India) theory and concepts of Balanced Stochastic Realizations and Balanced Stochastic Truncation (BST) in 1982. This kick-started research on methods for solving the stochastic model reduction problems. Since then, numerous papers have been published and many PhD’s has been granted on this topic.
Last but not the least, Dr. Pal was the first to formulate a complete and elegant solution to the fast (O(n2)) factorization problem for the Toeplitz and Toeplitz related matrices with zero minors – the so-called singular case. Almost all the literature, of about a hundred years, deals with the so-called regular or nonsingular cases (no non-zero minor), with success in the case of Hankel and Hankel-related matrices. These results are related to the now well-known Berlekamp-Massey algorithm (for solving Hankel linear equations). For Toeplitz and Toeplitz-related matrices, there were only some partial and rather complicated solutions before Dr. Pal’s work in 1990.
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