Cernium Corporation Appoints Dr. Nikhil Gagvani Chief Technology Officer; Veteran business executive and scientist to lead next generation of innovation and product development.RESTON, Va. -- Cernium Corporation, the leading provider of advanced video analytics, has announced the appointment of Dr. Nikhil Gagvani as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Gagvani currently serves as Cernium's Vice President, Engineering and will assume a broader role spanning the development cycle from R&D to new product introduction. "Dr. Gagvani's exceptional abilities and considerable experience in applied computer vision and technical product development ensures the continued advancement of Cernium's performance-leading position in the video analytics and physical security markets," said Craig Chambers, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Cernium. Dr. Gagvani has more than 15 years of experience in computer engineering and product development, focusing on computer vision and video analytic technologies. At Cernium, he has guided the continued evolution of Perceptrak(R), the leading intelligent video analytics system, and the development of new products, including the award-winning CheckVideo(TM) installation support software that measures and optimizes security camera video quality. Before joining Cernium, Dr. Gagvani led research, development and product engineering programs for Sarnoff Corporation Sarnoff Corporation, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is the former RCA Laboratories. The headquarters is the site of the development of color television, CMOS technology, electron microscopy, and many other important technologies since the cornerstone was laid just and its subsidiary, Pyramid Vision Technologies, where he oversaw the technical development and market introduction of advanced video solutions for the security, surveillance, law enforcement and consumer electronics markets. Dr. Gagvani holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University Rutgers University, main campus at New Brunswick, N.J.; land-grant and state supported; coeducational except for Douglass College; chartered 1766 as Queen's College, opened 1771. Campuses and Facilities Rutgers maintains three campuses. and a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute The Indian Institute in central Oxford, England is located at the north end of Catte Street on the corner with Holywell Street and faching down Broad Street from the east.[1] of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has authored numerous publications on visualization, image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished , computer graphics and distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. . More than 100 facilities throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. benefit from Cernium solutions. Perceptrak(R) customers include the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the starting position players and by the respective managers at PNC Park, SeaWorld, the City of San Diego, Boeing, The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. , the National Air & Space Museum, and George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate. Perceptrak(R) is the only advanced video analytics solution able to simultaneously analyze video from 16 cameras, in real time, on a single video processor. The system is able to monitor security video for any combination of 18 pre-defined behaviors, including fallen persons, abandoned or removed objects, facility intrusion, and lurking or erratically-behaving individuals, and provides real time alerts to law enforcement and security personnel. Cernium's ExitSentry(R), which secures airport exit concourses, has the longest record of secure, reliable performance in the advanced video analytics industry and is deployed in dozens of U.S. and Canadian airports. About Cernium Cernium Corporation is the leading developer and provider of behavior recognition software and systems for the security industry, focusing on real-time video analysis. The company's advanced video security systems have logged over one million hours of field service safeguarding more than one hundred facilities throughout North America that represent a range of industry sectors including government, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, education and cultural institutions. Cernium's patented security products include Perceptrak(R), ExitSentry(R), and CheckVideo(TM). For more information visit www.cernium.com. |
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