Sudhir Rao Rupanagudi

Managing Director, WorldServe Education

Mr. Sudhir Rao Rupanagudi, the CEO of WorldServe Education, completed his B.E. in Electronics and Communication from Visvesvaraya Technological University in the year 2006. Throughout his undergraduate years, Mr. Sudhir maintained and nourished an acute interest in research and development, and this was showcased in his final year project, wherein he worked on a low power implementation of a Digital Down-Converter for a baseband receiver. The down-converter introduced a system that allowed mobile phones to reduce their power consumption all on a single chip - the FPGA. Immediately after his graduation, this interest in FPGA design led him to post-graduation in System-on-chip (SOC).

He obtained his Master's Degree in Digital SOC in 2008, from the prestigious LTH, Sweden. During his time at LTH, Mr. Sudhir was one of the top students of his batch, and also secured his M.S. with top grades. One notable achievement during his university years was the discovery of a novel algorithm to reduce the computational complexity of a trellis decoder. The same was selected (amongst 18 groups) for fabrication into an ASIC (Chip) and the idea was also published by him, as a journal in the International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC).

Mr. Sudhir kick-started his career as a Research Associate in the Electronics and Communication department of The Indian Institute of Science, one of the most prestigious centers for research in all of India. He was involved with the design of baseband ZigBee radio receivers, and the conduction of the project has been immensely successful. Apart from this, he has also collaborated with one of the premier Government organisations for research in India through IISc.