Summary
Vasudevan Nagendra is a founder and AI cybersecurity expert with over a decade of hands-on experience building flagship security, privacy, and data products spanning homes, SMBs, enterprises, and cloud environments. He leads VISCR AI, where he’s developing NiKi, an agentic cyber-AI platform, and previously drove AI/ML-enabled data security and privacy work at Cohesity and Plume after research roles at SRI and Stony Brook. His technical depth blends network and product security with advanced privacy-enhancing technologies (differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure aggregation) and pragmatic ML/NLP solutions for device and anomaly detection. He is active as an advisor and mentor to startups across cybersecurity, healthcare, and IIoT, and his teams have previously protected over a billion devices in deployed systems. With a PhD in computer science and business training from MIT Sloan, he combines rigorous research, product delivery, and strategic leadership to turn cutting-edge privacy research into market-ready defenses.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Business Process Design for Strategic Management, Business Process Design for Strategic Management at MIT Sloan School of Management
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stony Brook University