Avinash Burla

Avinash Burla has a diverse work experience in various technology-related roles. Avinash currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at BioSort AS, where they lead and contributes to the development of technologies and products for sustainable salmon farming. Their responsibilities include establishing technical strategies and roadmaps for achieving the company's goals. Prior to that, they worked as the Head of Sensors and Software at BioSort AS, where they played a key role in the development of technologies to monitor the welfare indicators of salmon and remove infected fish when necessary.

Before joining BioSort AS, Avinash worked as a Senior Engineer at Norsk Titanium, where they led multiple product deliveries for process sensing and analysis of Rapid Plasma Deposition. Their responsibilities included working with senior leadership to establish product development strategies and roadmaps. Avinash also collaborated with stakeholders and end-users to develop concepts, requirements, designs, and test criteria.

Prior to Norsk Titanium, Avinash worked at CMO-SYS GmbH as a Project Manager and Product Developer for Machine Vision. In this role, they primarily focused on developing end-to-end industrial machine vision solutions for applications in the automobile sector. Their responsibilities included specification development, design analysis, feasibility studies, machine integration, testing, commissioning, and operator training.

Avinash began their career at the Institut für Technische Optik, University of Stuttgart, where they served as a Scientific Researcher for their PhD. During their doctoral research, they developed techniques to enhance 2D/3D multi-scale multi-sensor inspection systems. Their contributions included refining an automated multiscale multisensor measurement strategy using sensor fusion and evolutionary computing for surface inspection.

In summary, Avinash Burla's work experience showcases their expertise in technology development, product management, and research in domains such as sustainable farming, process sensing and analysis, machine vision, and optical inspection systems.

Avinash Burla holds a Dr.-Ing degree in Optics/Optical Sciences from the University of Stuttgart, which they obtained from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that, they completed their Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Infotech (embedded systems engineering) from the same university, from 2004 to 2007. Avinash has acquired various certifications related to software development and artificial intelligence, including Agile Software Development, Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team, Applied Machine Learning: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Neural Networks, Deep Learning: Face Recognition, and Deep Learning: Image Recognition. These certifications were obtained from LinkedIn in April 2020.