+Dr. Ashwini K Aggarwal, PhD
Chair of the Semiconductor Skills Committee at ESSCI and former Chairperson of IESA — 40+ years in industry, and co-author of India's semiconductor manufacturing skills curriculum.
LinkedInFounded by community builders. Guided by semiconductor veterans. Built for every student in India.
India was announcing fabs worth billions of dollars while brilliant students a few kilometres away had never seen a wafer.
The talent was everywhere. The exposure was nowhere. So we built a bridge — community leaders on one end, semiconductor veterans on the other.
An India where no learner's distance from a fab decides their distance from a semiconductor career.
Take real semiconductor experience to the doorstep of every learner in India — and turn it into skills the industry hires for.
Access — real experience within reach, whatever your geography, gender or institution.
Employability — training written to national standards, and verified placements.
Ecosystem — a five-way partnership that outlives any single bus or cohort.
25 semiconductor leaders — from fab floors, policy rooms, OEMs and campuses — who shape every WOWSemi program. Select any name to read more.
Advisors and mentors serve in a personal capacity. Their employers and institutional affiliations are listed for background only and do not imply endorsement of WOWSemi by those organisations.
“The hardest part was never the machines — it was finding people who had ever touched one. WOWSemi brings the fab to their doorstep first.”
Venkatesh Kumar Pandurengan · Guardian of the Mission
+Chair of the Semiconductor Skills Committee at ESSCI and former Chairperson of IESA — 40+ years in industry, and co-author of India's semiconductor manufacturing skills curriculum.
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+Former President & CEO of IESA and CEO of ESSCI, previously VP at Tata Projects' Advanced Tech Facilities — a leading voice on India's semiconductor policy and fab build-out.
+Leads Sweden/EU–India flagship programs. European Innovation Council 2026 mentor (Tech to Market · Women Leadership), silicon-carbide platform builder, and a specialist in turning research into real exploitation pathways.
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+Silicon and hardware product development — package design and foundry interface through power-on to PRQ, ATE sort test, characterisation and qualification — across aerospace, semiconductor, telecom and energy.
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+30+ years of senior leadership in strategy, product management and business development at leading global semiconductor and technology companies — startup mentor and angel investor.
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+Fab and ATMP/OSAT startup specialist, GM at PTW Semiconductor India — an equipment-engineering and localization expert who has started up plants and kept tools alive.
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+Semiconductor storyteller reaching 12 million industry professionals a year from Austin, Texas. 28 years across Applied Materials, Samsung, Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments and GlobalFoundries — ALD, PVD, EPI and CVD process and field service, then capital-equipment sales, and scaling Moov Technologies from $3M to $50M in revenue.
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+Social-work postgraduate (BSW, MSW) leading outreach, educational collaborations and community engagement — connecting students, academia, industry and society.
+Fab and ATMP/OSAT startup specialist, GM at PTW Semiconductor India — equipment engineering, localization and plant start-up.
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+AI innovation and supply-chain strategist across the semiconductor value chain — keeps every WOWSemi program carrying Industry 4.0 DNA, not yesterday's syllabus.
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+Electronics and Robotics expert and technical-training specialist — shapes the hands-on lab exercises and assessments that turn curious students into job-ready engineers.
+Quality Management System manager — brings fab-grade QMS discipline to WOWSemi's curriculum, safety standards and lab operations.
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+Assistant Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ramapuram Campus, Chennai — bridges academic rigour and industry practice for WOWSemi's campus programs.
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+16+ years in RF engineering across telecom — LTE, UMTS and RAN performance and optimization with Huawei, Ericsson and ZTE.
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+17+ years in semiconductor mechanical design, CAD and technical publication — leads cross-functional design, manufacturing-support and engineering-change teams.
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+18 years in semiconductor manufacturing across wafer fabs and OSAT — leads ASML EUV equipment operations and operational transformation for high-volume manufacturing.
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+Heads a semiconductor business division — sales, service, manufacturing and new-product development — with a track record of building new business across India.
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+IBU Head and Global Delivery Head at Tech Mahindra — 27+ years leading semiconductor and hi-tech product design, development and delivery worldwide.
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+Manager at Siemens Energy with 18+ years across semiconductor engineering, wind and offshore-wind energy — mechanical design, cable and harness systems, project management.
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+Electrical engineer across semiconductor, display and process industries — control-system design, automated test equipment, testing and commissioning.
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+Systems engineering and R&D — previously Applied Materials, Tech Mahindra, SAMEER and Air India — working across automated test equipment, AI/ML, computer vision and robotics.
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+Business development and strategic management for cleanroom capital projects in semiconductor and pharmaceutical manufacturing — cross-functional leadership and engineering operations.
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+Operations and project-delivery leader — formerly Schlumberger across oil, gas and energy, now delivering engineering and production for the bio-pharma industry.
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+Discipline lead for semiconductor fab design and process engineering — greenfield and brownfield fab projects with EXYTE and GLOBALFOUNDRIES in Singapore.
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+Team Leader at Tech Mahindra and electrical design engineer — LV electrical systems, control panels and schematics (EPLAN, AutoCAD, PLM/ERP) across industrial automation and semiconductor projects.
LinkedInThe women shaping how WOWSemi teaches — and making sure the next generation of Indian chip engineers is not a men-only story.
+Community-development and social-impact leader — champions skill development and career awareness for students and women across India.
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+Driven by a passion for training young talent — a creative designer leading AI at WOWSemi and a champion of women in semiconductors.
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+Team Leader at Tech Mahindra — LV electrical systems, control panels and schematics across industrial automation and semiconductor projects.
LinkedInThe organizations that help us build, teach and deliver — turning the plan into labs, workshops and cohorts.
Mentor a district. Advise a program. Sponsor a bus. India's semiconductor generation is waiting.