Vijay Chandrasekhar, is Co-founder and CEO of Cosmos Innovation, an AI-first company building next-generation solar and semiconductor technologies.

Vijay got his Ph.D. at Stanford, and BS & MS at Carnegie Mellon University.

Prior to Cosmos, he led AI at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore, where he built and led a 150-person AI team and managed a portfolio of 50 AI projects across 10 domains, where semiconductors was a key focus area. His previous stints include Google Research, Nokia Research Center, and an adjunct faculty in the School of Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Vijay has extensive experience in building large-scale engineering systems, and his technical expertise spans the areas of AI/deep learning algorithms, semiconductors, information retrieval, and computer vision, with over 120 publications in a range of top academic conferences and journals.