Our Purpose
Leadership Team
Rajat Aggarwal
Chief Executive Officer
Rajat completed his BS and MS at IIIT Hyderabad in 2017 with a specialization in computer vision and computational photography. His path-breaking research on computational cameras led to several publications and patents starting from his early undergraduate days. His publication in CVPR’16 was a breakthrough in the field of computational photography and eventually became the seed for DreamVu. A hardcore inventor at heart, Rajat is a true believer in the power of optics to solve some of the most trickiest challenges in sensing and perception for humans and machines.
Anoop Namboodiri
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Anoop is an Associate Professor at the renowned computer vision department at IIIT Hyderabad. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University specializing in pattern recognition, biometrics and computer vision. He has had an illustrious career publishing over 75 papers in renowned conferences and building systems that are currently deployed at a massive scale. Prof. Anoop believes in minimalistic and efficient approaches to solve challenging problems using his visionary ideas.
Paul Baim
VP Product Management & Systems Engineering
Paul brings decades of engineering leadership experience for image sensor-based systems. As a Principal Investigator, Engineering Manager, and Product Manager, Paul combines deep technical experience with a cross-disciplinary systems engineering mindset to lead the creation of novel approaches to deliver great products. Paul has experience across diverse industries including defense, autonomous vehicles, and robotics. Paul has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and he is a certified Project Management Professional.
Raj Kumar
VP Manufacturing Operations
Raj has more than 10 years of experience in global and cross-functional project management including new product introduction, vendor management, and full product life-cycle management, in high-tech companies, including at Intel Malaysia, and Finisar Malaysia. Raj holds MTech from IIT Roorkee and MBA from NTU, Singapore.
Parikshit Sakurikar
VP Imaging Technologies
Parikshit has a Ph.D in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad with a specialization in Computational Photography and Machine Learning. Parikshit has a broad expertise in computer vision and an avid interest in computational optics and cameras. He has more than 15 publications in top tier conferences spanning the fields of computer vision, graphics and high-performance computing.
Investors
Advisors
Sunil Kaul
Business Development Advisor
Sunil is a highly experienced, hands-on C-level executive with experience in both start-up and large corporate environments including semiconductor and systems companies. He has successfully led technology businesses from greenfield stage to multi-million dollars in revenue.
Prof. P. J. Narayanan
Director at IIIT Hyderabad
Professor PJN received his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1992. He is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics, computer vision and parallel computing. He has received various awards and accolades at the international level for his path-breaking contribution to this field.
Dr. Michael Brown
Professor at York University, Canada
Dr. Michael S. Brown received his undergraduate and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 1995 and 2001 respectively. He has over 13 years of academic experience working in Asia, holding prior faculty positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the area of computer vision, image processing, and computer graphics with an emphasis on physics-based models for image enhancement and restoration. Dr. Brown regularly serves on the senior program committees of the major computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV) and is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and the International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV).
Prof. Takeo Kanade
Helen Whitaker Professor @ CMU
Professor Kanade received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1974 and was the first generation of computer vision researchers. From 1992 to 2001, he served as the founding director of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and trained more than 200 researchers, laying the foundation for CMU’s academic position in the field of robotics. His papers have been cited more than 100,000 times, and there are a number of technical patents named after him. His extensive research in computer vision and robotics since 1980 has laid the foundation for today’s autonomous vehicle projects. CMU’s Robotics Institute invented the world’s first autonomous prototype in 1984.
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