Biography

In 2023, artificial intelligence will integrate seamlessly with robots. Together, they will help us in our daily lives by performing useful physical actions in the real world.

Prasanna is the CEO of Dishcare, where he leads an extraordinary team building a dishwasher that loads, cleans & puts away dishes instantly. So you can save time & help our planet while enjoying real dishes.

Prasanna is an engineer, architect and a leader—the kind that brings out the best in people and technology to create opportunities of a lifetime.

Previously, Prasanna was the Head of Product Infrastructure & Engineering at Osmo (leader in making learning fun), Head of Content Infrastructure & Monitoring at Orbital Insight (leader in geospatial analytics), CEO of Exnodes (leader in wafer inspection), VP Engineering at Arecont Vision (leader in security video) and has held senior engineering positions at Ricoh Innovations (leader in enterprise imaging), KLA (leader in process control) and D. E. Shaw & Co (leader in computational finance).

Prasanna has served as the Editor of Computational Imaging of OSA Applied Optics journal, Member of Program Committee of COSI and as a Panel Member of the U.S. National Science Foundation. Prasanna was a Postdoc in EE at Caltech, and holds a PhD in ECE from the University of Colorado; and a BE in ECE from GCT Coimbatore. Prasanna studied Business Strategies and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University.

Prasanna's 31 patents and 45 publications have earned 2250 citations. Prasanna has been recognized by the University of Colorado Outstanding PhD Award, U.S. EB-1 Extraordinary Ability Classification, OSA Outstanding Paper Award, SPIE Science and Engineering Award, CPIA Awards and GCT Coimbatore Gold Medal.