Srinivas Jallepalli

Srinivas Jallepalli founded Sankalpa Academy, a growth mindset school created to offer gifted-level education to all children. He is also the cofounder of Higher Orbit Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes educational equity. Jallpalli has an abiding passion for synthesizing the latest research findings in child development and understanding the challenges preventing us from bringing this research to our schools.

As an engineer and statistician, he has worked at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and NXP. He is currently a technical director at NXP Semiconductors. Jallepalli holds four US patents and has contributed to more than fifty papers in IEEE conferences and refereed journals. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.