Krishna Gopalakrishnan
Senior Vice President, Physical AI at Luminous
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKrishna Gopalakrishnan is a senior AI and robotics executive with over 20 years of experience building production-grade perception and automation systems for manufacturing, logistics, and defense. Currently Senior Vice President of Physical AI, he has led teams that delivered billions of high‑confidence inferences in Fortune 100 factories and built perception stacks that enable collision-free robot operation in dynamic environments. A hands-on architect fluent in C++, Python, ROS, and cloud MLOps, he bridges research and productization—from DARPA‑scale inverse problems and IC forensics to commercial multi‑sensor vision engines. Known for nurturing geographically distributed, high‑performance teams, he pairs technical rigor with high emotional intelligence to drive measurable business impact. An unexpected throughline in his career is deep expertise in multimodal sensor fusion and functional-safety aware design that translates research advances into reliable industrial deployments.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyM.S ECE Image Procesing and Vision, M.S ECE Image Procesing and Vision at Rutgers University
Tamil, English
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Github Skills (9)
gmail6
html6
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communications6
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java6
robotics3
ros3
Github contributions (5)
kgopalak/mcl_cpp
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
kgopalak/docker_images
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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