Chockkalingam 'Chock' Karuppaiah Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Fremont, Us

Fremont, California, Us

Pennington, New Jersey, Us

Responsible for overseeing and managing the financial records and assets of the Division, ensuring proper reporting, and delivering an annual financial statement. Additionally, maintain accurate records of all Division proceedings and handle official correspondence, supporting Division governance and executive functions effectively.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

As an Advisor at Silicon Catalyst, I support early-stage semiconductor startups by offering technical mentorship and strategic guidance to foster innovation and growth. Leveraging my industry expertise, I collaborate with founders to address technical challenges, refine product development, and navigate complex market dynamics. My role includes providing insights to help startups scale effectively within the Silicon Catalyst ecosystem, bridging connections that enhance technical and operational success

Invest in early to medium stage start ups across enterprise, healthcare and consumer sectors

Fremont, California, Us

Creation of high quality educational content for enabling mother tongue based education. Specific project includes translation of Khan Academy materials to Tamil.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

San Jose, California, Us

• Direct and Manage 40 member Fuel Cell Stack design and development team, including 10 Ph.Ds, with an annual Budget to the tune of $10M. • Cross Functional team coordination with Quality, Manufacturing and Supply Chain on new technologies. • Review technical merits of changes as the Chairman of change control board. • Evaluate technical risk level of new technologies being developed and unexpected changes in production line and provide input to Executive Staff.

San Jose, California, Us

• Successfully managed up with product development strategy, leapfrogging one full product generation, saving company 3 years in realizing 20% additional margin. • Promoted out of box thinking to solve a key reliability problem and improved the system availability 20%. • Empowered the team members through “Eyes on and Hands-off approach”, improving morale and engagement of team members. • Managed team towards achieving yield improvement through fundamental root cause analysis and achieved yield greater than 90%.

San Jose, California, Us

• Aligned with cross functional team and implemented fourth generation of stack technology without any production or field issues, thus enhancing both product and service P&L. • Solved critical supplier issue through creating and managing a task force leading to increasing life by 2 years. • Lead the team in RCA for field failures of columns which resulted in the implementation of mitigations enabling field failure rate reduction from 30% to less than 5%. • Managed Mumbai team remotely while GM search was on. Reorganized and improved employee morale.

• Provided Management and Technical consulting to Deeya Energy, Primus Power, Superprotonic and Roth Capital Management. • Consulted in the development, fabrication, testing and transfer to manufacturing of Rebalance cell, a critical technology component to maintain capacity of Deeya Energy batteries. • Consulted Primus Power in the field of electrochemistry and electrode architecture. • Carried out due diligence and technical evaluations for Roth Capital Management.

San Jose, California, Us

• Set up the complete Quality Engineering function and Improved the yield of first generation stack technology from 20% to 90%. • Set up an effective system for component QC – includes developing and maintaining specifications, developing test methods, mastering cross-cultural communication to work with component vendors. Progressed from 100% inspection to AQL in a systematic fashion. Played a key role in increasing the competence and productivity of India Team. Developed Qualification plan for SOFC electrolytes. Reduced the anode reduction time from 24 hours to 45 minutes through an electrochemical route. Carried out a yield improvement program on electrolytes and improved the yield from 10% to 50%. Project managed the task force to deliver the first set of stacks for the first 5kW system build.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

• Designed the electrochemical and fuel cell test lab. • Implemented the design and trained the graduate students. Instrumental in Grant writing and obtaining funding of 1.2 million dollars for Durability Study of PEM fuel cells. Research Programs: • Study and Optimization of Electrodes for High Temperature PEM. • Durability and Accelerated testing of PEMFC. • Percutaneous hydrogen transport for bio fuel cells.

Latham, Ny, Us

MANAGER MEA FUNDAMENTALS TEAM, (NOV 2001 - SEP 2002): • Manager of a team of 8 people which included 5 Ph.Ds and their support staff. • Successfully integrated the fundamental studies on both the high temperature and low temperature fuel cells. • Designed and implemented a Fundamentals Lab, thus leading to faster evaluation of the fundamental characteristics of fuel cells. • Interfaced with the MEA design team and the Systems team, which enabled the fundamentals team to be close to the product and educated other teams on the design issues to ensure performance and life. • Carried out "Leading by Example" leadership style with an active participation in the technical work. Invented the “Hybrid Electrode Architecture” resulting in a dramatic reduction in the degradation rate. MEMBER ROBUST CELL TEAM, (MAY 1999 – OCT 2001): • Current Interrupt – Developed a current interrupt method to measure the impedance. Saved time and labor but also provided one with a result that is closer to the operating conditions. • Created safe leak check technique to identify and pin point a fuel cell with high cross leaks in a stack. • Devised method to mechanistically understand anode performance loss. • Devised and carried out tests to identify the failure modes caused by dry reactants. • Managed a technical project carried out at GE CR&D to evaluate the kinetics of oxygen reduction on catalysts with different characteristics. • Investigated and identified the root cause for the failure of fuel cells on fuel starvation. Discovered an anode configuration that is tolerant to fuel starvation. MEMBER STACK DEVELOPMENT TEAM, (OCT 1997 – APRIL 1999): • Evaluated the in-house MEA technology and the external MEA technology for using in residential systems for operation under ambient conditions. • Successfully completed the first 1000-hour test at Plug Power.

Ph.D, Electrochemistry And Fuel Cells

B.Tech, Electrochemical Engineering