Rahul Sukthankar
VP, Research at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolRahul Sukthankar is a veteran research leader and VP at Google Research/DeepMind who co-leads the Perception organization, driving advances in computer vision and machine learning. With a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and over two decades in industry and academia, he has moved from foundational research roles at Intel Labs and HP Labs to senior leadership at Google. He has chaired major conferences (General Chair CVPR 2021), served as Editor-in-Chief of Machine Vision and Applications, and is an IEEE Fellow, reflecting deep influence on the research community. Based in Mountain View, he blends rigorous academic roots with product-aware research leadership, often bridging university collaborations (adjunct roles at CMU and UCF) and large-scale industrial deployment. An underappreciated strength is his long-term pattern of building sustained research groups that translate core vision innovations into practical systems across multiple companies.
23 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Robotics, PhD Robotics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.S.E. Computer Science, B.S.E. Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (2)
indexed7
search-engine4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
cmusatyalab/diamond-core-filters
Mar 2004 - Feb 2006
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 10 months
diamondcommon-filtersfilters
cmusatyalab/opendiamond
May 2003 - Nov 2004
Interactive search of non-indexed data
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 6 months
search-engineindexedsearch
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