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Chandra Deshpandey

Chief technology officer at Mivium, which makes submicron gallium nitride particles

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Updated Nov 7, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 23, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Chandra Deshpandey

Chandra Deshpandey is chief technology officer of Mivium, which makes submicron gallium nitride particles. He leads Mivium's technology execution. He is also a professor emeritus at UCLA, in materials science and engineering.

He has more than 40 years of experience building new products. His experience includes deposition systems, ceramics, coatings, thin films and lasers. He started and exited two companies. Angstrom Systems Inc. developed an atomic layer deposition process and system, with funding from Intel Capital and KLA Tencor. RF Arrays made microwave front-end chips. It also made wireless communication and control systems. He also worked as a professor in the Department of Materials Science at UCLA.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Chandra Deshpandey in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Mivium, Inc. Current
CTO
2026 – Present · South El Monte, CA
Mivium makes phase-pure gallium nitride particles with a patented process and plans to follow the powder with GaN substrates.
Angstrom Systems Inc.
RF Arrays
UCLA, Department of Materials Science
Professor

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Chandra Deshpandey works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Mivium, Inc. · Form D/A, Oct 23, 2026
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Eric Tsai
Co-Founder, CEO and director
Rick Qiu
Rick Qiu
Co-Founder & General, director
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Jim Qiu
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board

Chandra Deshpandey in the News

Sources

  1. SECMivium, Inc. Form D/A, filed Oct 23, 2026
  2. releaseMivium press release on Newswire, October 6, 2026