Vishwa is an active technology entrepreneur with over three decades of industry and research experience. He co-founded Saankhya and has been responsible for shaping and running company’s business operations. Prior to Saankhya he was co-founder and CEO at Smart Yantra technologies, a high technology product start-up; one of India’s first video streaming IP companies. Smart Yantra was acquired by Genesis Microchip in 2004.
He has been responsible for building and sustaining highly motivated technology teams at Saankhya and Smart Yantra. Under his leadership, Smart Yantra acquired several international clients. When at Genesis, he built the technology team responsible for the delivery of several key IPs. Prior to founding Smart Yantra, he was at Philips Consumer Electronics where he contributed to the system and software architecture for a new range of digital Televisions. His research at Philips Research Labs Eindhoven led to the development of computational models for estimation of video quality.
Vishwa was awarded Ph. D. from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, and M.E in ECE from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. Vishwa has authored several publications in leading international journals and a named inventor in several Indian and US patents.
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