Ananth Kandhadai is a Senior Director, Engineering in the Multimedia R&D group in Qualcomm Technologies Inc. His research interests include Speech coding and enhancement, Image processing for cameras, Model based Computer Vision, Deep Learning for object detection and tracking, Power constrained system design, and Vision hardware acceleration. He has over two decades of experience working on speech codec standardization, camera system design, and computer vision involving fundamental research as well as commercial implementation. He currently leads Computer Vision technology development for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoCs, including technology roadmap, use-cases, algorithms, system design, architecture, hardware, software development, and customer product delivery.