Venkatesh Bala Subburaman

Venkatesh Bala Subburaman is an experienced engineering manager specializing in autonomous UAV and robotics at MathWorks since February 2017, where responsibilities include path planning. Prior roles encompass leadership as a research team lead at Uurmi Systems focusing on 3D reconstruction and simultaneous localization, an R&D engineer at Multitel on crowd analysis for metro surveillance, and a research assistant at IDIAP Research Institute developing techniques for multi-view face detection. Academic credentials include a PhD from EPFL in computer vision and object detection, alongside master's and bachelor's degrees from IIT Madras and M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, respectively. Additional experience includes engineering positions at General Motors and GE, and involvement in optical character recognition projects at the Indian Institute of Science.