Rajarshi is a new father. He’s also a painter, musician, cricket player, soccer fan and cyclist as well as an innovator in TI’s Kilby Labs.

Looking to improve the efficiency of everything around him, Rajarshi’s favorite project to date was challenging the existing state-of-the-art system techniques in data-writing mechanisms and touch-down sensors for disk drives. This resulted in a 30 percent power reduction and significant improvement in magnetic head reliability. Today he’s looking at new techniques in CMOS for low-power, high-voltage and high-speed applications that may some day replace BiCMOS technologies.

The industry faces a number of challenges in the years ahead, according to Rajarshi. Moore’s Law projections have become increasing difficult to fulfill, new circuit architectures continue to gain complexity, and the interfaces for tomorrow’s end applications are becoming more challenging than ever.

Rajarshi is particularly inspired by the greening of technology. As the number of ICs per person continues to grow exponentially around the world, he’s passionate about improving the efficiencies of power-hungry systems and greatly reducing the globe’s staggering energy footprint for a cleaner, greener future for generations to come.