‘Behind every Galaxy camera click is work done in Bangalore,’ Samsung India R&D head narrates 25-year journey to excellence

Every time you use the 5G capabilities or click a photo using a Samsung Galaxy phone you will be relying on the years of work done by engineers in the Korean giant’s Bangalore R&D facility. But even as Samsung celebrates its 25th year in India, very few people know how the company has always had this strong research and development facility in the county, evolving with the requirements and the technology of the times.

There is one person who knows all about it, Dipesh Shah, MD at the Samsung Research Institute, Bengaluru and one of the first employees of the company in India, joining even before the India operations started. “I cannot forget the day I landed for the first time in Korea, in June 1994. The person who had come to pick me at the airport was speaking to someone from the car on a wireless phone.