Dr. Narasimha is a serial entrepreneur with a past startup gig that was acquired by Apple Inc. has 15+ years of professional experience in research and development of Computer Vision, machine learning and Imaging algorithms which includes 10+ years of experience in building and technically leading R&D teams in a startup environment with responsibilities including overall project planning, algorithm design, mentoring and execution. He has successfully led multiple projects from research to production that have been shipped in ~100 million smartphone units (Motorola, Samsung, and Nokia) and ~20 million video surveillance equipment from 2007-2012 at Texas Instruments, Inc. At Samsung, as an established AR expert, he worked on developing new features for the Galaxy flagship smartphones. Rajesh Narasimha obtained his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mangalore University in 1999 and his Master's degree, in Electrical Engineering, from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY in 2002. He received his Ph.D degee from Georgia Institute of Technology in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007. With 20+ patents (13 issued, 7 pending), 8 invited articles/talks, having authored/co-authored 40+ publications till date and participated as an Adjunct faculty on the two PhD Defense committees at Georgia Tech, Dr. Narasimha is well-known expert in his field.
Dr. Narasimha has several awards and recognitions to his credit. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Science & Engineering Visualization challenge conducted by prestigious the Science journal in partnership with the National Science Foundation. He is the recipient of the prestigious pre-doctoral fellowship at Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD for 2006-2007 and also the recipient of the 2003-2004 SPIE Scholarship for long-range contributions in imaging and image processing (awarded to ~100 doctoral candidates among ~500 applicants all over the world). He was nominated for the outstanding graduate student award in 2002 at the Rochester Institute of Technology based on GPA (4.0), master’s publications (four Journal Publications) and professional activities. He was awarded the Best undergraduate thesis in the ECE department in May 1999 and an award from the Indian ministry of education for securing 11th rank at the state level in the 10th grade out of 0.5 million aspirants.
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