Abhishek Kumar Sinha is a VLSI engineering executive with 26 years of leadership spanning ASIC design, SoC development, emulation, graphics, and AI platform enablement. His technical range covers the full silicon lifecycle, including architecture, emulation, timing analysis, synthesis, gate-level simulation, formal verification, and post-silicon validation, built through leadership roles across India, the US, the UK, and Malaysia.
As Senior Director of Engineering and Head of Global Emulation at Qualcomm Technologies, Abhishek leads a 200+ person organization spanning the US, Ireland, and India, overseeing custom emulation hardware, AI-enabled methodologies, and execution infrastructure for flagship mobile, XR, and AI platforms. He directs Qualcomm's emulation investments, managing a large portfolio of assets and vendor relationships with partners such as AMD, Meta, Cadence, and Synopsys, and regularly presents to the CFO and COO in executive reviews.
Earlier at Qualcomm, Abhishek served as Snapdragon Premium-Tier Chip Lead, directing four flagship Snapdragon and XR chip generations, 845, 888, 8 Gen 3, and AR1 Gen 1, deployed in devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S9, S21, and S24 Ultra, OnePlus 6 and 12, Xiaomi Mi 11 and 14, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. He also led three generations of Qualcomm's Adreno GPU program, managing an implementation team across lint, CDC, STA, synthesis, and formal verification.
Before Qualcomm, Abhishek built his technical foundation at Intel and STMicroelectronics, leading gate-level simulation and timing analysis on major graphics and set-top-box silicon programs, achieving first-pass silicon success on multiple projects.
He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in VLSI Design from CDAC, Pune, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Bangalore University.