Vasantha spent her entire professional career of a quarter century at Intel Corporation, half in the US and half in Bangalore. She grew through the ranks in a variety of roles at Intel Labs implementing and validating research ideas for several years. She led teams to innovate, build and demonstrate high performance and energy efficient technologies via silicon prototype development and facilitated world-class circuit research. As Technology Director, between 2011 and 2016, Vasantha drove strategic technology efforts in areas of high-performance computing, market-enabling pathfinding in computer-vision and related technologies as well as IP for embedded systems.

Vasantha is a two-time Intel Achievement Award recipient and has co-authored over 15 IEEE journal and conference papers and holds 6 patents. . She served on the organizing committee and technical program committees of various international technical conferences including ISSCC, A-SSCC, ISLPED and VLSI Design. She served as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter from Jan 2017-Jan 2019. She is currently an Executive member of the IEEE Bangalore Section.

Vasantha is passionate about people, technology and development; she taught several classes while at Intel and also led the diversity and inclusion activities for Intel India for over a decade. She volunteered with various organizations advocating and promoting literacy, women’s empowerment, STEM education and technology advancement and now continues to do so full-time.