About Emergence AI

Building the agentic layer for the semiconductor lifecycle with deep technical expertise and proven AI systems experience.

Our Mission

To build the agentic layer for the semiconductor lifecycle, reducing time-to-market, accelerating silicon bring-up, and driving sustained yield and reliability improvements.

Semiconductor Leadership Team

Satya Nitta

Satya Nitta

CEO, Co-Founder

  • •IBM Research, AMD
  • •Process R&D (BEOL, Packaging)
  • •150+ papers & patents in semiconductors
Sharad Sundararajan

Sharad Sundararajan

CIO, Co-Founder

  • •25+ years across AI and semiconductors, with 20+ patents
  • •Deep EDA expertise; led compiler and optimization initiatives for ASIC and server chips
  • •Delivered a 50× Verilog compilation speedup recognized with an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
Shom Ponoth

Shom Ponoth

EVP, Head of Semi Solutions

  • •20 years in semiconductor device technologies (FinFET, ETSOI) and interconnect innovation (ULK dielectrics, air-gap)
  • •IBM Microelectronics: Advanced R&D in device and interconnect engineering; Former IBM Master Inventor
  • •Broadcom: Supported FinFET technology introduction and adoption with foundry partners
  • •Published 30+ papers; holds 140 U.S. patents

Experience & Background

Deep Research Foundations

20+ PhDs, 1000+ patents & papers, 30,000+ citations advancing the science and development of agents.

Proven AI Scale

Technologists at Emergence have worked on some of the most scaled deployments of AI: 14th largest customer service system, >200K requests per second, >100M transactions across 500+ enterprise customers.

Industry Pedigree

Previous affiliations: IBM Research, Google Brain, Amazon Alexa, Allen Institute of AI, Broadcom, DE Shaw Research, HP Labs, and more.

Global Presence

75 employees across offices in NYC (HQ), Irvine, CA & Bengaluru, India.

Select Partnerships

Winter

Frank D'Souza, Founder & ex-CEO of Cognizant

How We Deliver

Forward-Deployed Model

We don't just build agents—we embed with your team to ensure production-ready deployment. Our forward-deployed approach means we work alongside your engineers, understand your specific challenges, and deliver solutions with full traceability and transparent reasoning.

Get in Touch

Ready to accelerate your semiconductor lifecycle? Let's talk.