Madhuparna is an EDA and VLSI expert with over 25 years semiconductor industry experience, who has worked across UK, India and Sweden. She started off with PCB & FPGA design in Telecom at C-DoT, and then moved to the EDA industry at Cadence Design Systems where she has worked across Silicon-Package-Board as well as Digital Design and Implementation product lines. Currently an AE Director with people management role along with overall technical lead for digital and signoff technical campaigns across the region. She has been involved with CPU, GPU and system IP designs on all the advanced nodes including 16nm, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm etc. She is a SWE Global Ambassador and founded SWE Cambridgeshire affiliate in September 2022, the first global SWE affiliate in UK, which helps provide networking and professional development opportunities for local engineers. She has been elected to the SWE senate for FY26-28. She won the Electronics Weekly “Women Leaders in Electronics Awards 2024” for ‘Mentor of the year’ and was finalist for ‘Leader of the year’ and ‘Woman of the year’. She was invited by UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to be part of the UK semiconductor delegation to India. She is currently a trustee on the UKESF board as there is great alignment on values and approaches towards encouraging more young people to study Electronics.
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