Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Member of the founding board of directors of IIT Tirupati Innovation & Incubation Foundation to drive innovation and incubation in Tirupati region under IIT Tirupati. The foundation is a Section 8 company based in Tirupati that is involved in activities such as Research and development on natural sciences and engineering (NSE). [This class includes systematic creative work in the fields of research and development in natural sciences, medical sciences, agriculture and engineering & technology].

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

• Thrilled to join the Institute Innovation Council as a member to help identify and commercialise innovations from IIT Tirupati.
• Doubles my joy since my hometowns are Tirupati and Srikalahasti.

Oct 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Advisor to the program team for the undergraduate bachelors course in interactive technologies.

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Remote

• Virtual Museum of Kodava Heritage and Culture (VMKHC) is a new initiative from IFA to preserve and share the heritage and culture of Kodagu region. With strong domain knowledge about technology and the virtual world, Hemanth Satyanarayana joins the advisory board as a technical advisor to support this initiative. Ms. Rathi Vinay Jha IAS, Chair, IFA is the Chair of the advisory board.

May 2019 – Feb 2020 · 9 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Working group for 4IR Lloyd’s Register Foundation

May 2018 – Mar 2025 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Blacksburg, Virginia, United States · Hybrid

• Co-won $1mn NSF project for Emergency Responder Trajnjng using Mixed Reality.
• PIs and Co-PIs include Virginia Tech, Texas A&M University and University of Florida.

Nov 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Virtual Reality meets Religion.
• A failed investment - Unfortunately around Covid days.

Nov 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos

• Revolutionizing learning and support in Manufacturing, Chemicals & Healthcare through AI, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies.
• Amongst the top US AR/VR firms by Forrester in 2019
• Co-won $1mn NSF grant in US for ER Training
• Cisco Launchpad Accelerated since 2019
• Selected by Vedanta and Novo Nordisk for their digital transformation accelerator in 2021
• Deloitte Fastest 500 Company in APAC for 2019
• Receipient of Voyager Award by Cisco India for 2017
• Deployed AI powered Exposure Therapy platform for mental health treatment
• Won the NASSCOM Most Innovative & High Potential Product Award - November 2016.
• Developed a revolutionary customer service platform in Virtual Reality for MetLife.
• Demonstrated teleportation using HoloLens at Tech Mahindra's annual Innovation event.
• Rated by Gartner as Top 3 Cool Vendor for 2016.
• Launched B2B marketing solution in VR at MWC 2016.
• Winner of MIT Technology Review - TR35 Young Innovators Award in Computing Category
• Won a PO from Indian Army to design and deploy an indigenous AR based training simulator
• Lastly, we just clocked 100,000 subscribers on YouTube and received a Silver Play Button!

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Apr 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

• Speaksli is a MassChallenge portfolio company that offers Learners and Governments a Simple, Affordable and
• Accessible Solution for Language Skill Acquisition and Cultural Integration using VR, AR.

Oct 2015 – Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Seed stage investor in Absentia Virtual Reality that was later rebranded as Pixis AI. It is now a unicorn which last raised a follow-on funding of $100mn from Softbank in Jan 2022.

Jul 2012 – Feb 2013 · 7 mos · Chile

• 4th generation entrepreneur representing Imaginate, in Santiago, Chile.
• Exploring Augmented Reality opportunities in Santiago and Latin America.

Nov 2011 – Dec 2016 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Dressy is a plug and play virtual fitting room for online fashion apparel stores and mobiles apps that let shoppers try out clothes and get custom size recommendations in a matter of seconds and share them with friends for immediate feedback. It thus boosts conversions, reduces returns and increases footfalls. Dressy is built on a proprietary image processing and computer vision system that processes shopper's pictures from social media in real-time for body type, size, skin color, apparel color and other attributes. Dressy is in public beta now.
• Dres.sy won the prestigious NEXT B2B award (by World Economic Forum) worth 45K euros in Frankfurt during its alpha launch in June 2014.
• Secured an equity-free grant of $40K from Chilean Government to setup business in Chile.
• Featured on Economic Times ETNow TV Show Pioneering Spirit - Season 2 on Sep 5, 2011.
• Selected as one of the Top 10 Product Companies at NASSCOM Product LaunchPAD on Nov 8, 2011. Featured in several media for its Disruptive Technology.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr · Hyderabad

• Got acquired by Nexus Ventures backed TalentSprint, a pioneer in creating high performance professionals for the global industry through fast track transformations - June 2012
• Deccan Career Point of Career Vision group, an IIT and IIM alumni run coaching institute offered training for aspiring bank probationary officers and clerks. I advised the management in business strategy.

Apr 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

Oct 2006 – Mar 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Directly reporting to the CEO, Hemanth was the technology lead.
• Played a significant role in the product demonstrations given to the Department of Defense, USA.
• Engineered the design and development of a Virtual Locomotion Controller (VLC), a sophisticated motion tracking device.
• Exclusively developed the Multi-threaded environment, AI for locomotion, Client - Socket architecture for wireless data transmission and a Virtual Training Environment GUI using Maya and Max for the wearable VLC.
• Headed the transition of company's proprietary Behavioral Animation Studio Software 'ProScena' to use the latest Gamebryo technology.
• Invented a low cost alternative to the force sensor technology and thus bringing the production cost significantly down by 90%

Mar 2006 – Aug 2006 · 5 mos · Buffalo-Niagara Falls Area

• Undertook the development work of a Virtual Reality Based Forklift Trainer from scratch.
• Created a thorough OpenGL based forklift kinematics simulation with mathematical analysis of stability using external input devices in a virtual training environment.
• Salient features include training modules for car driving, forklift driving, pallet loading and unloading operations and recording/playback using XML and MS Access.

Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Developed techniques in computer vision and image processing for the generation of a well triangulated virtual model of liver from an MRI scan. Used Matlab, C++ and Open Inventor.
• Designed hardware to track the position of the surgeon's headgear and used the tracking information to develop an Image guided Liver Surgery Apparatus using Augmented Reality.
• Device used was a monocular see-through digital display device from LitEye, which is today's Google Glass (2013).

Nov 2003 – Aug 2004 · 9 mos

• Member of the Rosettanet Standards Development team for the IBM software product WebSphere Business Integration - Connect (V4.2.2 and V4.3.1) for Win OS / IBM Linux, Member of the WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS) Quality Assurance team.
• Developed RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs®) : specialized XML based system to system dialogs for all 7 clusters in Rosettanet Standards for WebSphere Business Integration – Connect. Created Build Script in Java and Apache Ant for PIPs package that was uploaded to the ClearCase storage server.

Jun 2001 – Aug 2001 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Worked as an Intern at Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad on the development of Scramjet (Supersonic Combustion Ramjet) engine.
• Responsible for the development of a computational model for coolant flow.