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Vic (Vishvjit Singh) Nalwa is President of FullView, which he founded in 2000 with Bell Labs, after inventing FullView's 360° camera there in 1995. Amidst the Internet Frenzy of 1999 –2000, he webcast David Bowie with it from Manhattan, where he socialized it with his Stanford co-alum Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong. At 16, based solely on an anonymously-taken all-India entrance exam — which precluded tribalism, cronyism, puffery, and corruption — he skipped his senior year at St. Columba's School for the 240-odd freshman class at one of the 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 Information Systems Laboratory Fellowship, an M.S. (1985) and a Ph.D. (1987) in EE. He was next a Principal Investigator ("PI") at Bell Labs Research, whose PIs have won 10 Nobel Prizes. After a talk there in 1993 on a multi-year competition between its Neural Networks, Statistics, and Robotics Research Departments to automatically authenticate signatures signed on now-ubiquitous signature pads, he suggested their state of the art could be improved tenfold. When challenged, he wrote an app demonstrating it that summer. The President of Bell Labs, who had been seeking his resignation for insubordination, thereon afforded him unfettered freedom, which led to FullView. Also for this, he won a Bell-Labs-wide competition in 1994 on exploiting the "chip" that is now on every credit card. In 1989, he was concurrently on the faculty of Princeton University, 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 AI and CS, as at Stanford. Recognized for his publications and patents, he's been invited to describe his work worldwide — as by UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Google, Technion, UBC, TU Delft, IIT Delhi, HKU, and INRIA. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE PAMI in 1994 – 98 and elected Fellow of IEEE in 2004.
His dad, a
midshipman
in WWII at 16, was court martialed in 1946 for the
Indian Naval Mutiny
that
triggered
India's independence from
Britain. An ancestor,
Hari Singh Nalwa
(1791–1837),
who was Commander-in-Chief of the
Sikh Empire's
army he joined at 14, is
mythologized
for driving
Afghan Rule
from the
Indian Subcontinent
across the
Khyber Pass,
where he built
a fort
he died defending.
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