Dileep Bhandarkar PhD

Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar is an independent consultant, leveraging his proven ability to analyze technology architecture, processes, service and direct strategic initiatives in the Semiconductor IT industry.

Prior to this, he was Vice President, Technology, Data Center Group at Qualcomm where he was responsible for the Strategic Direction of 64 bit multi-core ARM server development.

Before Qualcomm he was Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Corporation, where he led a hardware architecture team to proactively drive innovation and standards for the company mega data centers to lower TCO.

He was Director of Strategic Planning and Director of Advanced Architecture in the CTO Office of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. He championed the adoption of energy-efficient microprocessor cores across Intel’s product line.

He spent almost 18 years at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he managed processor and system architecture, and performance analysis work related to the VAX, Prism, MIPS, and Alpha architectures.

He also worked at Texas Instruments for four years in their research labs.

He holds 16 U.S. patents and has published more than 30 technical papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He is an IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay. He has a        Ph. D. from Carnegie Mellon University.