Rakesh “Teddy” Kumar

Rakesh “Teddy” Kumar, Ph.D., is the senior technical director of the Vision and Robotics Laboratory at SRI International. In this role, he directs commercial and government projects in military training, augmented reality, robotics, video surveillance, 3D modeling, and medical image analysis.

Kumar has received the Sarnoff Presidents Award and Sarnoff Technical Achievement awards for his work in registration of multi-sensor, multi-dimensional medical images and alignment of video to three-dimensional scene models. He has served on NSF review panels, co-authored more than 50 research publications, and received more than 25 patents. He has also been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Kumar has served as a principal founder for multiple companies, including VideoBrush, LifeClips, and SSG. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1992.