Dr. Neel Gala is the CTO of InCore Semiconductors – an early stage fabless startup from India backed by Sequoia India. InCore is one of the leading providers of RISC-V processor solutions in India. Neel received his Bachelor’s degree (B-Tech) from the National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW) in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2010.  In 2012, Neel co-founded the SHAKTI processor program at IIT Madras, which provided India its first RISC-V silicon and is now one of the primary open-source microprocessor programs in the country. He went on to complete his PhD in 2016 from CSE at IIT-Madras, with a major focus on low power approximate computing.

Dr. Neel was also the lead architect of India’s first indigenously designed 64-bit RISC-V chip – codenamed RISECREEK.  Dr. Neel also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Compliance Test Group of RISC-V International, and has published more than 20 international articles and is an avid open-source contributor and promoter.