Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra is currently the President & Managing Director of Texas Instruments India. In this role, he leads all of TI’s Research and Development, as well as Sales and Marketing activities in India.
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He is the Chairman & Executive Council member of India Semiconductor Association for 2010-11. He is also the President of the VLSI Society of India and an Executive Council Member & Chairman of the Embedded Systems activities at NASSCOM. He was also an Executive Council member of MAIT, and plays an active role in several key semiconductor policies. He is actively working with several hundred OEMs in India which are developing innovative products using semiconductor solutions.
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He has also been instrumental in driving the culture of innovation at Texas Instruments. With nearly 700 U.S. patents from India to its credit – amongst the highest filed by technology companies in the country – Texas Instruments India is driving Analog and Embedded Processing innovations for applications from Energy Efficiency to Medical, Surveillance, etc.
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Dr. Mitra has been instrumental in playing a pioneering role in creating the India semiconductor ecosystem. Under his leadership, Texas Instruments has established partnerships with over 700 universities in India.
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Dr. Mitra has a B.Tech (1985) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (both from IIT–Kharagpur). He also holds an Executive MBA degree from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was a recipient of the “Dean's Award for Excellence”.
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