Veena S Chakravarthi is a Bangalore-based technologist, system-on-chip architect and educator. Over a career spanning three-decades, she has spawned of several VLSI Designs & Incubation centers and managed several high-performance tech-teams at ITI Limited and across various MNCs like Mindtree Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Centillium India Pvt. Ltd. Transwitch India Pvt. Ltd., Ikanos Communications Pvt. Ltd., Pereira Ventures, Asarva Chips and Technologies, Saankhya Labs and Prodigy TechnovationsPvt. Ltd. She has co-founded Sensesemi Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a healthcare company. She was the Research Head and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bangalore. She also holds a PhD in Low power VLSI design from Bangalore University and an executive management for Technologists certification from IIM Bangalore. She has filed five patents for Sensesemi and two for BNMIT in VLSI and Healthcare domains. She is currently working as instructor in the ‘Accelerated customer enablement’ ACE group at Synopsys. She is the author of the books “A Practical Approach to VLSI System on Chip (SoC) Design” published in 2019 by Springer Nature and “IOT and M2M communication technologies” which was published in October 2021. She is senior IEEE Member.