Primary Job Title Product Management Primary Organization Google
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Female
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Chetna Bindra, Ph.D., SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division. In this role, she identified strategic business and technology areas to invest in, and built programs with diverse government and commercial organizations across a wide range of multi-use technologies.
Bindra has launched creative research and development
programs that span early- and mid-stage technologies to late-stage developments that target technology transition. She has a deep understanding of the technologies, value propositions, and user requirements across a range of areas. Her current focus has been to build technology programs more broadly across several areas: real-time vision processing, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, voice/speech analysis, machine learning, advanced analytics, data management, big data, visualization, social media analysis, user modeling, network and cyber security, and more. Market areas include robotics, education and training, aerial vehicles, surveillance, mobile platforms, and information technology.
Bindra has experience spinning off new venture-backed companies, including incubation and funding and hiring rounds. She has played key roles in market analysis, technical competitive analysis, and positioning to attract venture capital funding at onset and through various milestones. Within a venture-backed, start-up company using electrostatic technology for manufacturing, Bindra managed technical development and led a team of more than 50+ multidisciplinary personnel. In this effort, she focused on critical technology paths, minimizing burn rate and managing expectations and milestones between the technical and financial teams.
Earlier in her career at Sarnoff Corporation, which became part of SRI in 2011, Bindra was technical manager for a group of 20+ multidisciplinary technical personnel, including Ph.D.s. She was responsible for setting technical direction, generating external funding, and garnering interest from external commercial and government entities in various nascent, early-stage, leading-edge technologies.
Bindra has an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from University of Pennsylvania.
