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Vic (Vishvjit Singh) Nalwa is President of FullView, which he cofounded in 2000 with Bell Labs after inventing FullView's 360° camera there in 1995 — which he used to webcast David Bowie live from Manhattan in 1999, where he demonstrated it to his co-alum Sally Ride and to Neil Armstrong in 2000. At 16, based only on an annual anonymously-taken all-India entrance exam, and nothing else — to preclude tribalism, cronyism, and puffery — 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 he 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, including one for CCD cameras. After a talk there in 1993 that described three competing efforts at Bell Labs Research — by teams from its Neural Networks, Statistics, and Robotics Departments over several years — to automatically authenticate signatures signed on signature pads such as ubiquitous today, he opined that the state of the art, its equal error rate, could be improved by an order of magnitude, tenfold. When challenged to show how, he did, over two summer months. For this, the President of Bell Labs, who'd been seeking his resignation for insubordination for obsessing over his book below for 3+ years, thereon afforded him unfettered freedom instead, which led to FullView. Also for this, in 1994, he won a Bell-Labs-wide competition on uses of a "chip" on a credit card. He was concurrently on the faculty of Princeton University in 1989, 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 Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and Computer Science ("CS"), as at Stanford. He's been recognized for his patents and publications; he's prevailed in all patent litigation to which he's been a party or an expert; and he's been invited worldwide to describe his research — as by UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Technion, TU Delft, IIT Delhi, HKU, and INRIA. He was 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
Royal Indian Naval Mutiny, which
led to
India's independence. Another lineal ancestor,
Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837), who joined the
Sikh Army at 14 and rose to lead it, is
widely mythologized for driving
Afghan Rule from India to beyond the
Khyber Pass, building
a fort at its mouth
he died defending.
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