| Website | xerox.com/innovat... |
| @piratla | |
| Birthplace | Hyderabad, India |
| Colorado St. University, PhD | 2005 |
| Electrical Engineering | |
| Colorado St. University, MS | 1999 |
| Electrical Engineering | |
| JNTU College of Engineering, B.Tech | 1996 |
| Electronics and Communications |
Nischal Piratla is Senior Entrepreneur in Residence with Xerox Research Centre, India. Before returning to India in 2010, he worked as Chief Scientist for Mobile Services & Platforms, at Innovation Development with Deutsche Telekom, USA Lab, with a joint appointment at Deutsche Telekom Labs (T-Labs), Berlin, Germany. He was also associated with the Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara as Adjunct Associate Professor. He started at T-Labs, Berlin in 2005 as a Senior Research Scientist, and within a year founded its first spin-off, Qiro GmbH, and led it as CTO. After the exit, returned to T-Labs as Chief Technologist with a short term Visiting Scholarship at Stanford University. His previous terms at industry also include Lucent/Avaya Inc. (2000-2002), Seagate (1999-2000) and CMC (1996-97).
Nischal considers his knowledge/skills in Mathematics and his field of expertise, namely, Networking, Mobile Services, Recommendation Systems and HCI as tools, which when properly brewed with intuition and business logic lead to fascinating innovations. He has formed and worked with teams from more than ten countries. His expertise in technology, ability to go across domains, knowledge of global work cultures, and intuitive acumen for business makes him an exciting entrepreneur. He believes that a researcher with entrepreneurial spirit brings a very interesting dimension to industry research.
Nischal holds 1 patent and has 13 pending applications. He has published 16 technical papers and has an IETF RFC to his credit. He is also recognized as a Senior Member of IEEE.
