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Vic (Vishvjit Singh) Nalwa is President of FullView, which he founded with Bell Labs in 2000, where he invented FullView's 360° camera — with which he webcast David Bowie in 1999 performing in Manhattan, where in 2000, he demonstrated it to his Stanford co-alum Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong. At 16, based on an anonymously-taken annual all-India entrance exam — and that alone, to preclude tribalism, cronyism, puffery, and corruption — he skipped his senior year at St. Columba's School for the 240-odd freshman class at one of then five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). At IIT Kanpur, he won the First Prize for Academic Excellence in the Core Curriculum in 1981 and was its Best Graduating Student in Electrical Engineering ("EE") in 1983, both with two others. He then received from Stanford University, on its inaugural ISL Fellowship, the M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) Degrees in EE. He was next a Principal Investigator ("PI") at Bell Labs Research, whose PIs have won 10 Nobel Prizes. After a talk at Bell Labs in 1993 on a multi-year competition between its Neural Networks, Statistics, and Robotics Departments to automatically authenticate signatures signed on signature pads, he suggested these efforts could be outperformed tenfold. When challenged to show how, he did that summer, over two months — but only after wrapping up the book below. The President of Bell Labs, who'd been seeking his resignation for insubordination, thereon afforded him unfettered freedom instead, which led to FullView. He also won a Bell-Labs competition for this in 1994. In 1989, he concurrently taught at Princeton University, which led him to write A Guided Tour of Computer Vision (Addison-Wesley, 1993), a text used to teach, train, and qualify Ph.D. candidates in AI, as at Stanford University. Recognized for his publications and patents, he's been invited to lecture worldwide — as at UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Technion, TU Delft, IIT Delhi, HKU, and INRIA SA. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE PAMI over 1994 – 98 and was elected Fellow of IEEE in 2004.
His dad, a
midshipman
in WWII at 16, was court martialed in 1946 for the
Indian Naval Mutiny
that
led to
India's independence from
Britain in 1947.
His lineal ancestor,
Hari Singh Nalwa
(1791–1837), who led the
Sikh Army
he'd joined at 14,
is
widely mythologized
for driving the
Afghan Empire
from
India
to beyond the
Khyber Pass,
building
a fort at its mouth
he died defending.
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