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The People Behind the Mission

Founded by community builders. Guided by semiconductor veterans. Built for every student in India.

Our Story

Born on the Fab Floor,
Raised for the Community

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.

The name says it all Wafer On Wheels If a student can't reach a cleanroom, the cleanroom rolls to them.
Engineer in a cleanroom suit examining a rainbow-coloured processed wafer
From sand to silicon — the work most students never get to see.
SandQuartz & silicon
Wafer300mm, 775µm thin
ChipBillions of transistors
EngineerThe part India is missing
Vision

An India where no learner's distance from a fab decides their distance from a semiconductor career.

Mission

Take real semiconductor experience to the doorstep of every learner in India — and turn it into skills the industry hires for.

Three Goals

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.

InnovationEducationInclusivenessEngineeringIntegritySustainabilityNational Development
Core Team

Advisors, Guardians & Mentors

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
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Dr. Ashwini K Aggarwal, PhD+

Dr. Ashwini K Aggarwal, PhD

Mentor Advisory Group

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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PVG Menon+

PVG Menon

Mentor Advisory Group

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.

Mikael Syväjärvi+

Mikael Syväjärvi

Mentor Advisory Group · Sweden / EU–India

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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Amudhan Balasubramanian+

Amudhan Balasubramanian

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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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Sunil G Acharya+

Sunil G Acharya

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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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Venkatesh Kumar Pandurengan+

Venkatesh Kumar Pandurengan

Mentor Advisory Group

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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Robert Quinn+

Robert Quinn

Mentor Advisory Group · USA

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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Devi Priya Ramalingam+

Devi Priya Ramalingam

Guardian of the Mission

Social-work postgraduate (BSW, MSW) leading outreach, educational collaborations and community engagement — connecting students, academia, industry and society.

Venkatesh Kumar Pandurengan+

Venkatesh Kumar Pandurengan

Guardian of the Mission

Fab and ATMP/OSAT startup specialist, GM at PTW Semiconductor India — equipment engineering, localization and plant start-up.

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Masthan Siraj+

Masthan Siraj

Guardian of the Mission

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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Senthil Kumar R+

Senthil Kumar R

Guardian of the Mission

Electronics and Robotics expert and technical-training specialist — shapes the hands-on lab exercises and assessments that turn curious students into job-ready engineers.

Balasujai Velayutha Raja+

Balasujai Velayutha Raja

Guardian of the Mission

Quality Management System manager — brings fab-grade QMS discipline to WOWSemi's curriculum, safety standards and lab operations.

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Dr. V. Jayakumar+

Dr. V. Jayakumar

Honorary Mentor

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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Sundara Mahalingam+

Sundara Mahalingam

Honorary Mentor

16+ years in RF engineering across telecom — LTE, UMTS and RAN performance and optimization with Huawei, Ericsson and ZTE.

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Vijay Kumar Suga+

Vijay Kumar Suga

Honorary Mentor

17+ years in semiconductor mechanical design, CAD and technical publication — leads cross-functional design, manufacturing-support and engineering-change teams.

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Sathish Mudabagila Gowda+

Sathish Mudabagila Gowda

Honorary Mentor

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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Parikshit Sengupta+

Parikshit Sengupta

Honorary Mentor

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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Palani Elumalai+

Palani Elumalai

Honorary Mentor

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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Shantakumar Doddamani+

Shantakumar Doddamani

Honorary Mentor

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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Naresh Saminathan+

Naresh Saminathan

Honorary Mentor

Electrical engineer across semiconductor, display and process industries — control-system design, automated test equipment, testing and commissioning.

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Mogan Lakshmanadas+

Mogan Lakshmanadas

Honorary Mentor

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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Nisarg Shah+

Nisarg Shah

Honorary Mentor

Business development and strategic management for cleanroom capital projects in semiconductor and pharmaceutical manufacturing — cross-functional leadership and engineering operations.

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Naresh Vaidya+

Naresh Vaidya

Honorary Mentor

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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Parasakthivelan Muthumari+

Parasakthivelan Muthumari

Honorary Mentor

Discipline lead for semiconductor fab design and process engineering — greenfield and brownfield fab projects with EXYTE and GLOBALFOUNDRIES in Singapore.

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Vaishali G+

Vaishali G

Honorary Mentor

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.

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WISE

Women Ideators in Semiconductor Education

The women shaping how WOWSemi teaches — and making sure the next generation of Indian chip engineers is not a men-only story.

Sivasankari Subburaj+

Sivasankari Subburaj

Community & Social Impact

Community-development and social-impact leader — champions skill development and career awareness for students and women across India.

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Mymoon Beevi Diwan Mohamed+

Mymoon Beevi Diwan Mohamed

AI Lead · Learning Design

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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Vaishali G+

Vaishali G

Electrical Design Engineer

Team Leader at Tech Mahindra — LV electrical systems, control panels and schematics across industrial automation and semiconductor projects.

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On the Ground

Execution Partners

The organizations that help us build, teach and deliver — turning the plan into labs, workshops and cohorts.

Owllys

Deep Tech & Advanced AI Solutions
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Techno School for Robotics

Execution Partner · Robotics
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SARVTEK India

Execution Partner
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Bharath Semiconductor Society

Execution Partner

Dynamic Green Energy

Execution Partner

CVM Engineering & Projects

Execution Partner
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