Curriculum Vitae
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`Rajeev Surati Ph.D.
`Tel:
`+1 508 472 5319
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`62 Putnam Ave
`Cambridge
`MA, 02139
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`E-mail:
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`Profile:
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`raj@alum.mit.edu
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`MIT PhD technologist in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science – Builder and
`Manager of teams translating research into successful Products. Built and sold Microsoft its
`real-time communications technology platform (2 way messaging, instant messaging, Voip,
`etc…) Built ran and sold a top 1000 web site (one of the first offering photo sharing) from
`2000-2007 and programmed several key modules including live chat, bulletin boards, photo
`ratings, photo sharing social networking etc…,Built a company around my PhD Thesis that
`implemented Structured Light based camera systems. Such systems are now a standard
`requirement in multi-projector based immersive systems (military simulators ) in Late 90s now
`a successful Company with Disney, Pixar, Universal and all branches of the military as clients.
`Areas of expertise include: User Interface, database backed web sites, web analytics, instant
`messaging, chat, compilers, display technology, image processing, machine vision, AI, billing,
`GPU. Also a talented programmer in C++. C, C#, java, python, scheme, LISP, Javascript, php
`etc.
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`Expert Experience:
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`Extensive experience in IPR, Patent , Trade Secret, FINRA, ITC, Federal and State Court.
`Written 10s of Expert Reports. Experienced at least 15 Depositions, Court Tutorial and Trial
`Testimony.
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`Education:
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`Massachusetts Institute of Technology SB, 1992, SM, 1995, Ph.D.1999
`GPA: SB 4.9/5.0 SM: 5.0/5.0 Ph.D. 5.0/5.0 all In Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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`SB Thesis: A Parallelizing Compiler Based on Partial Evaluation – Dept. Thesis Prize (later)
`--Early Days of How to fill Floating Point Pipelines
`SM Thesis: An Object System Based on Partial Evaluation
`--Getting Good Computation Throughput – with Abstraction
`Ph.D. Thesis: Scalable Technology for Large Scale Seamless Displays
`--Making Massive Resolution Display a Reality
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`Employment:
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`Skyline Nav AI Inc.
`Position:
`Cofounder, President
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`9/2020 – Present
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`Commercializing A Camera Based GPS Alternative – using Visual Cues to Localize.
`Technology Licensed and Developed at US Army Research Lab. Designed and Built Front
`end and Backend of applications including User Interface.
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`Hydrow.
`Position:
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`Skunkworks Technical Head
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`5/2019 – 3/2020
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`Ran Innovation Initiative for Connected Fitness Startup to build a vr experience
`to fully immerse a person into a rowing on the water experience using magic leap and oculus
`Quest. Also designed the User Interface.
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`nCent Labs
`Position:
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`Senior Partner
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`4/2018 – 12/2019
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`Company is a Stanford, MIT Spinout that has created an incentive platform on top of
`blockchain and is based upon the nCent crypto currency. I have been working on corporate,
`business development, and product development matters. Built User Interface of first
`application.
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`Computation and Imaging
`Position:
`President
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` 1/2015 – Present
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`Apple Inc. v. Smith Interface Techs., LLC
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`Consultancy providing strategic and implementation services to companies related to IP and
`business Issues as well as product development including android based systems, AI etc.
`Clients include NEC, Apple, Sony, Estee Lauder and Hi Marley. Extensive experience in
`designing unique User Interfaces for new Technologies
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`Scalable Display Technologies
`Position:
` President, Chairman, and Co-Founder
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` 1/2004 – October 2014
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`World’s leading provider of technologies to build and maintain seamless tiled large displays.
`Core technology in auto-calibration of large displays. Today the company is the worldwide
`leader in auto-calibration in the simulation and training space, largest provider of projector cam
`software on both an OEM and direct to customer basis with over 100,000 licenses sold
`worldwide. We have created a new class of products that has disrupted the high end of the
`market by over the last 10 years focusing on folding the cost of warping down from 10,000
`dollars per channel to less than 100 dollars per channel The Technology is based on my Ph.D.
`thesis and seminal projector camera patents filed while at MIT in 1998. I program/product
`managed our relationships and software architecture integrating it with NVIDIA, AMD, NEC,
`Sony, etc based on them as both customers and product channels. We have opened up a
`huge market for new classes of products for which we are a key component. I also have
`developed our whiteboard strategy which is beginning to bear fruit delivering systems with
`NEC. I have been able to bridge the divide between Japan Brands and their technology focus
`to bring products to market with their sales organizations by acting as a business/product
`management intermediary. Extensive experience in designing unique User Interfaces for
`applications shipped over the last 20 years.
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`Photo.net.
`Position:
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` President, Co-Founder, Chairman
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` 7/2000-May 2007
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`Turned world’s largest and best amateur photographer site from a simple forum site into a
`viable growing community based business along with Philip Greenspun. Ran a preLAMP
`stack based on AOLServer, tcl, and Oracle 9 with innovative features such as: photo-sharing,
`click through advertising, digital subscriptions for vanity purposes etc. Innovated very early
`business models in this space around subscriptions, clickthroughs, banner advertising, and
`revenue sharing. Sold business quite profitably to NameMedia in 2007. I ran it while running
`another startup.In my roll I released many unique user interface designs to millions of users
`and gained extensive experience optimizing user interfaces.
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`Microsoft
`Position:
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`Software Development Engineer
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` 7/1999 - 7/2000
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`Worked on Exchange 2000 IM Server and MSN Messenger.
`Wrote patents on publish-subscribe architectures etc. Position created post sale of
`Flash Communications Wrote in C++, used COM etc. XML etc.
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`Flash Communications
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`Position:
`CTO, Co-Founder
`Founded company while in PhD program, developed market plan, core technology, and
`implementation targeted at a Microsoft acquisition. Built team, raised funding, and wrote
`designed product software with team. Company sold to Microsoft, prior to finishing my PhD
`thesis. Microsoft adopted User interfaces I designed in their MSN Messenger and Microsoft
`Exchange Instant Messaging products.
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`2/1997 – 02/1998
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`Oak Ridge National Lab
`Position: Summer Intern
`Spectroscopy Group building Lab- on-a-Chip.
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`MIT AI Lab
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`Position: Research Assistant
`Worked with computer science and Electrical Engineering Professors: Thomas F. Knight,
`Gerald Jay Sussman, and Hal Abelson on a wide variety of projects. Helped build an early
`VLIW computer architecture with HP and mainly designed a special software compiler that did
`register allocation, parallelization to fill floating point pipeline. I also worked on camera
`feedback based projector systems, and on projects in the early days of the web: HTTP, TCP,
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`9/1992 – 6/1998
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`UDP, database backed web systems etc.
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`Naval Research Labs
`Position: Summer Intern
`Worked on wavelet decomposition and classification based on said decomposition of radar
`return signal in C/C++. Wrote visualization tools that dramatically improved the investigative
`cycle time. Lots of hacking with postscript to help visualize results.
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`Technology Hackers Inc
`Position: Electrical Engineer
`Built a 512 node 2D array of phased array microphones.
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` 6/1992-12/1992
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`Microsoft
` 6/1988-8/1988, 6/1999-9/1999
`Worked on Microsoft PC Client for Mail, Microsoft File, Microsoft Works (pre Windows).
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`Technology Advisory Boards UnifySquare, Paneve (General Purpose Asic coupled with Compiler Technology),
`Nexaweb (Realtime Web Application framework using HTTPS), Antix Labs (Compiler Technology for universal gaming
`platform), Permabit (Content Addressable Storage), Evoque.
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`Awards:
`Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow 1995-97, William A Martin Thesis
`Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Computer Science 1992, Global Indus Technovator Award 2009, Laureate of
`2009 Computer World Honors Program, MIT 6.270 Lego Robot 1991 – Robot was named with Nuclear Capabilities on
`fields of RoboHockey.
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`Investments: Angel Investor in over 40 startups.
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`Patents:
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`5,943,478
`6,260,148
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`6,415,318
`6,456,339
`6,604,133
`8,817,111
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`8,994,757
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`9,215,455
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`9,369,683
`9,497,447
`9,860,494
`10,163,195
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`System for immediate popup messaging across the internet
`Methods and systems for message forwarding and property notifications using electronic
`subscriptions
`Inter-enterprise messaging system using bridgehead servers
`Super-resolution display
`Inter-enterprise messaging system using bridgehead servers
`System and method of calibrating a display system free of variation in system input
`resolution
`System and method for providing improved display quality by display adjustment and image
`processing using optical feedback
` System and method of calibrating a display system free of variation in system input
`resolution
`System and method for calibrating a display system using manual and semi-manual techniques
`System and method for color and intensity calibrating of a display system for practical usage
`System and method for calibrating a display system using a short throw camera
`Spatio-temporal differential synthesis of detail images for high dynamic range imaging
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`System and method for injection of mapping functions
`10,319,137
`System and method for calibrating a display system using manual and semi-manual techniques
`10,503,059
`System and method for providing improved display quality by display adjustment and image
`10,523,910
`processing using optical feedback
`11,159,774
`System and method for providing improved display quality by display adjustment and image
`processing using optical feedback
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`Systems Built (Individually or as part of a team):
`Spambot: One of the Internet’s first free to use Mailing List Servers that was database backed
`Photo.net’s photo sharing system: One of the first on the internet, and given rave reviews as one of the best systems
`out in 2003.
`Photo.net’s mobile WAP interface
`MIT Supercomputing Toolkit: VLIW 8 processor system out of discrete electronic parts
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`Available upon request.
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`Microsoft Exchange 2000 IM Server and MSN Messenger Service
`Internet Coke Machine: 1993 – food transfer protocol (modified ftp server hooked up to micro-controlled coke machine)
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`Skills: C++, C, Scheme, TCL, C#, Java,SQL, dabbled in PERL, python, etc. ], TCP, mobile app development, and
`networking, image processing, firmware programming etc. Did Oracle DB management for photo.net. Very fast at
`learning enough to implement what I need done to solve a problem, E&M, machine vision, etc.
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`References:
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`Publications:
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`Medication Use in the Management of Comorbidities Among Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder From a Large
`Nationwide Insurance Database
`By: Feroe, Aliya G., Nishant Uppal, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Sajad Mousavi, Philip Greenspun, Rajeev Surati, Isaac
`S. Kohane, and Paul Avillach.
`In:JAMA pediatrics 175, no. 9 (2021): 957-965.
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`COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Mobile Apps: Evaluation and Assessment for Decision Makers
`By:Raskar, Ramesh, Greg Nadeau, John Werner, Rachel Barbar, Ashley Mehra, Gabriel Harp, Markus Leopoldseder
`et al(Rajeev Surati). arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05812 (2020).
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`Video Deconfounding: Hearing-Aid Inspired Video Enhancement.
`By:Berlin, Andrew A., and Rajeev Surati.
`In 2018 IEEE 13th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2018.
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`Measurable augmented reality for prototyping cyberphysical systems: A robotics platform to aid the hardware
`prototyping and performance testing of algorithms.
`By:Omidshafiei, Shayegan, Ali-Akbar Agha-Mohammadi, Yu Fan Chen, Nazim Kemal Ure, Shih-Yuan Liu, Brett T.
`Lopez, Rajeev Surati, Jonathan P. How, and John Vian
`In:IEEE Control Systems Magazine 36, no. 6 (2016): 65-87.
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`Mar-cps: Measurable augmented reality for prototyping cyber-physical systems
`By: Omidshafiei, Shayegan, Ali-Akbar Agha-Mohammadi, Yu Fan Chen, Nazim Kemal Üre, Jonathan P. How, John L.
`Vian, and Rajeev Surati.
`In:AIAA Infotech@ Aerospace, p. 0643. 2015.
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`Partial Evaluation for Scientific Computing: The Supercomputer Toolkit Experience A. Berlin and R. Surati, Proc of
`ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation, 1994
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`Exploiting the Parallelism Exposed by Partial Evaluation.
`By: Rajeev J. Surati, Andrew A. Berlin
`In: IFIP PACT, 1994
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` Parallelizing Compiler Based on Partial Evaluation, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report, TR-1377,
`July, 1993
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`Invited Talks:
`Ultra High Resolution Displays and Interactive Eye-point Using CUDA NVIDIA GPU Computing Conference 2010
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`Using the GPU to Create Seamless Displays from Multiple Projectors SIGGRAPH 2011 NVIDIA Presentation.
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`Seamless Scalable Displays - Using NVIDIA Warp + Intensity API NVIDIA GPU Computing Conference 2012
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`Using Warp and Blend API in Distributed and Single Renderer's / Update on Warping Standards with Bei Wang (Walt
`Disney Imagineering), NVIDIA GPU Computing Conference 2013
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`Mid-Tier VR: Cost Reducing the Cave by Embracing the GPU with Bei Wang – Walt Disney Imagineering, NVIDIA
`GPU Computing Conference 2014
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`Teaching:
`MIT Teaching Assistant:
`6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2 times),
`6.002 Circuits,
`6.013 Electro and Magneto Quasi-static Systems.
`ArsDigita University: Lecturer Probabilistic Systems.
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`ArsDigita Database Programming Bootcamp Instructor
`MIT Course on Android Mobile Programming
`Harvard Medical School Computational Medicine course – handling BIG Data.
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