Yogesh knows about giving 110 percent. He had perfect grades at MIT when he obtained his Ph.D. and his master’s degree, and while working at TI, he was a key analog designer in TI’s first commercial energy harvesting chip, which received Electronic Products magazine's 2011 Product of the Year award. These achievements came from working hard and exceeding expectations.

Today, in battery charge management, he works on low power solutions that enable products to perform with the absolute minimum necessary – ironically, the opposite of his personal work ethic. The human body with all its complicated functionality is extremely efficient when it comes to power usage, explains Yogesh. He is striving to enable a similar concept for electronic products.

Yogesh cherishes seeing actual products develop from his work. When he was in school, he enjoyed designing circuits and presenting at conferences, but putting his ideas to work with real customers is the most satisfying and the best “grade” of all.

Yogesh works with interns regularly and appreciates the fresh ideas they have. He worries that the industry is losing talented engineers to the software development industry and encourages colleagues to emphasize the “cool” side of semiconductors. Hardware has its own “wow” factors -- for example, using green energy, powering products with ambient light or heat from the human body instead of batteries or electricity.