Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta is the Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix, a Tokyo-based AI semiconductor company, and a serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience spanning artificial intelligence, advanced computing, and semiconductor technologies. Combining deep technical expertise with company-building experience, he has built and led technology ventures across AI semiconductors, robotics, autonomous systems, and fintech. At EdgeCortix, he has successfully secured more than US$100 million in private investment and government-backed funding to advance next-generation AI computing technologies and the company’s global growth.

Prior to founding EdgeCortix, Dr. Dasgupta held research, technology, and leadership roles across leading global organizations including Microsoft, IBM Research/IBM Japan, RIKEN, and the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He also helped build and lead technology startups in Japan and Singapore, developing experience across the full innovation lifecycle—from fundamental research and engineering to product commercialization and company building.

In 2019, he founded EdgeCortix with a vision to fundamentally improve the energy efficiency of AI computing at the edge. Today, the company develops reconfigurable AI processors, semiconductor IP, compiler technologies, and software platforms through a software-first, hardware-software co-design approach. Its technologies target some of the most demanding edge AI applications across defense and aerospace, robotics, telecommunications, smart infrastructure, and industrial systems.

Dr. Dasgupta holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Complex Systems Physics from the Max Planck Institute. He also pursued advanced studies in entrepreneurship and design thinking at the MIT Sloan School of Management and holds more than 25 patents worldwide across AI, computing, and semiconductor technologies.

日本における製造業（自動車、産業機械、航空宇宙防衛、半導体）部門のリーダー。
製造業、インフラ系企業、政府機関に対して、主に戦略、生産性改善、新規事業、サステイナビリティ戦略、ＤＸに関するコンサルティングに従事。前職で安全保障を専門としていた経緯もあり、防衛省及び防衛関連企業に対して、防衛産業戦略、防衛事業の成長戦略、調達・製品開発・サプライチェーン等のオペレーション変革などの支援を実施。
近年ではマッキンゼーの地政学に関するサービスラインを立ち上げ、政府機関や企業に対して、現下の地政学的環境下における政策や企業戦略の在り方についてのコンサルティングも実施している。

学歴・その他
・前職では外務省および内閣官房の国家安全保障政策チーム（総合政策局、安全保障政策課、内閣官房有事法制チーム）で勤務

・東京大学卒
・IEビジネススクール卒（MBA取得）