Nandhakumar, Nandhu

Nandhu Nandhakumar currently serves as Senior Vice President in the office of the CTO of LG Electronics Inc., and leads R&D efforts in the area of next generation media and display technologies. He has also led various technology initiatives, partnerships and corporate venture capital investments in areas of long-term strategic interest to LG Electronics. Earlier, he served as CTO, VP Engineering and a Board Director of Triveni Digital, which develops and supplies products for the management and monitoring of metadata and data in broadcast DTV signals. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Texas, Austin and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.  He has authored more than a 100 refereed journal and conference publications, and holds several issued patents in in the areas of Computer Vision, Image Processing, Robotics, and Machine Intelligence. Dr. Nandhakumar has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UT Austin, and B.E (Hons) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Madras, India. He is active in technology standards development and serves on the board of directors and advisory committees of various industry organizations, startups, incubators, and academic institutions.