Since April 2024, I lead the Research and Technology Center India. In this new expanded role, I lead three departments including Applied Research, Applied AI and Engineering for Research and Development. Here is a recent interview regarding my thoughts about shaping AI and SW research in India.

Since October 2022, I hold a Chief Scientist Position in the area of data management for AI at Bosch Research. In this role I focus on problems related to enabling the data loop for AI. This includes supervising technology development to address every phase of the data loop starting with acquisition and ingest, data selection, labeling and QC, data re-use and usage of synthetic data for model development, approaches for validation and release of AI algorithms.

In this endeavor I lead a global team of 44 research scientists focussing on some of these aspects. I have had high impact contributions in AI based smart data curation, data-reuse and assisted annotation for data management (¿15 mio Euro bottom line impact) and 20+ Invention Reports filed in the AI domain.

This role is in addition to my director role where I am responsible for the technology strategy, project acquisition, leadership and further development of the department of corporate research in India. I lead a group of 30 scientists in areas of AI, CV, ML and numerical methods for embedded software.

I earned my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in October 2003 from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA.

Previously, I worked for Siemens Healthcare Technology Center (India) in the area of Medical Imaging Technologies. I have 20+ years in R&D; strong analytical and mathematical background with a proven publication record in the field of AI. Besides this, I have strong leadership skills with experience in building and leading teams of scientists and engineers.

Received Best Paper Award Nov 2012 – IEEE Conference on Parallel Distributed and Grid Computing.

Received Best Paper Award May 2005 – British Machine Vision Conference.