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`Rajeev Surati Ph.D.
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`Profile:
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`MIT PhD technologist in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Broad
`academic and business knowledge. Invented and patented several basic internet, computer-
`related, and display technologies and subsequently formed and sold companies based on
`these technologies to large corporations. Experienced with Internet(database backed web
`sites, search, e-commerce credit card implementation, instant messaging), compilers, and
`display technologies including projector-camera systems, peer-to-peer, instant messaging,
`pub sub systems, HTTP, TCP, UDP, affiliate marketing, click-through models, subscription
`models, search optimization, caching, relational database community-based web sites, social
`networking, computer graphics, digital image warping etc. Such work in these areas I have
`done is pioneering. Additionally, I have participated in standards processes. I have a great
`understanding of the history and evolution of many of the technologies in these areas. Having
`authored at least 6 patents and 2 others in process, been a participant in patent cases, and
`been the target of infringement in my businesses, I have a great working knowledge of both
`the importance and subtleties related to IP. Lastly, because I have founded 3 successful
`companies and sold 2 companies to both Microsoft and NameMedia(godaddy.com), and
`advised several other companies, I have extensive contacts in the industry and a business
`background that encompasses building a technology business from the ground up. I am
`experienced in writing code in C++, Java, C, Postscript, C#, etc
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`Expert Experience:
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`Worked on patent related cases for British Telecom, Apple, IBM, Triplay (against Facebook),
`Ford etc… as an expert related to e-commerce, telecommunication systems, database backed
`web sites, photography, real-time https, two-way and instant messaging. Have served as both
`a report writer and consultant on a multitude of cases, and been deposed in the
`process.Worked on copyright and trade secret case for a credit processing company,
`representing the Defendant. Worked on a breach of contract case for an audio company
`against a contract engineering firm. Delivered testimony in Federal Court on an Email case.
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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
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`--Getting Good Computation Throughput – with Abstraction
`Ph.D. Thesis: Scalable Technology for Large Scale Seamless Displays
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`--Making Massive Resolution Display a Reality
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`Employment:
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`Computation and Imaging
`Position: President
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`Consultancy providing strategic and implementation services to companies related to IP and
`business Issues as well as product development.
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` 1/2015 – Present
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`Scalable Display Technologies
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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 focussing on folding the cost of warping down from 10,000
`dollars per channel to less then 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.
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`Photo.net.
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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.
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`Microsoft
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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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`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
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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
`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,
`UDP, database backed web systems etc.
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`9/1992 – 6/1998
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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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`6/1988-8/1988, 6/1999-9/1999
`Microsoft
`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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`Patents:
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`Super-resolution display
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`Inter-enterprise messaging system using bridgehead servers
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`Methods and systems for message forwarding and property notifications using electronic
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`subscriptions
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`System for immediate popup messaging across the internet
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`System and method of calibrating a display system free of variation in system input
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`9,215,455 System and method of calibrating a display system free of variation in system input
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`System and method for providing improved display quality by display adjustment and image
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`processing using optical feedback
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`Applications:
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` System and Method for Injection Mapping of Functions
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`20100321382
` System and Method for Calibrating a Display System Using Manual and Semi-Manual
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` System and Method for Color and Intensity Calibrating a Display System for Practical Usage
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`PCT/US2014/029402 System and method for calibrating a display system using a short throw camera
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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
`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 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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`Available upon request.
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`Publications:
`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 (cid:3)
`In: IFIP PACT, 1994
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`A 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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