Sakyasingha Dasgupta
Sakya is the founder and Chief Executive officer of EdgeCortix. He is an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologist, entrepreneur, and engineer with over a decade of experience in taking cutting edge AI research from ideation stage to scalable products, across different industry verticals. He has lead teams at global companies like Microsoft and IBM Research / IBM Japan, along with national research labs like RIKEN Japan and the Max Planck Institute Germany. Previously, he helped establish and lead the technology division at lean startups in Japan and Singapore, in semiconductor technology, robotics and Fintech sectors. Sakya is the inventor of over 20 patents and has published widely on machine learning and AI with over 1,000 citations.
Sakya holds a PhD. in Physics of Complex Systems from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, along with Masters in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelors of Computer Engineering. Prior to founding EdgeCortix he completed his entrepreneurship studies from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
EdgeCortix
Website: https://www.edgecortix.com/
EdgeCortix: Powering the Future of Edge AI
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor company delivering energy-efficient AI processing for demanding, power-constrained environments. Backed by major Japanese government initiatives and global investors, the company is scaling its breakthrough hardware and software solutions for real-world deployment.
At the core is its patented Dynamically Reconfigurable Neural Accelerator (DNA) architecture, powering the SAKURA family of AI accelerators. These deliver superior performance-per-watt across diverse workloads - from computer vision and sensor fusion to vision-language models (VLMs), vision transformers (ViTs), and large language models (LLMs) - enabling true performance-grade Generative AI at the edge.
EdgeCortix’s MERA software stack seamlessly optimizes AI models from frameworks like TensorFlow and ONNX for deployment across Arm, RISC-V, and x86 platforms with minimal developer effort.
Trusted in mission-critical settings, SAKURA accelerators have passed NASA radiation testing for space missions and have been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense’s DIU for national security applications, firsts for both a Japanese company and a semiconductor company.
With a global customer base in defense, manufacturing, robotics, and autonomous systems, EdgeCortix is unlocking the full potential of real-time, adaptive AI without reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure.