krasimir Kolarov
PhD Mechanical Engineering, Stanford; MS Mechanical Engineering, Stanford; MS Operations Research and Mathematics, University of Sofia; MA English, Sofia; BS Mathematics, Sofia. Currently Vicepresident of Business, Holox Technologies., Belmont, CA.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Design, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, German, HTML / CSS, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, MacOS applications, Public speaking, Russian, Software Engineering, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows, Windows applications |
| Groups: | BASES |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Holox Technologies., Belmont, California |
| Position: | Vice President of Business Development |
| Time period: | January 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Holox is a ground-breaking leader in nano-photonics instruments with programmable definition of 3D high density, optical structures using holographic origination, and fast replication of templates for nano-lithographic printing of low cost optical plastics. Establish, develop and sign customers, partners and investors in the Solar and Display markets. |
| Employer: | Rapport Inc., Redwood City, California |
| Position: | Vice President of Worldwide Business Development, Principal Software Architect Video |
| Time period: | June 2006 - December 2007 |
| Description: | • Established and developed business and technical relationship with a number of partners and potential customers in the areas of signal processing, image and video processing, internet search applications, Deep Packet Inspection, security, graphics. Organized and delivered presentations and customer discussions in Asia (Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, India), Europe (U.K., Germany, France) and throughout United States
• Actively participated in technical brainstorming and technology development direction in the video application, software and tools area running on the Company’s reconfigurable, low power, high performance hardware chips and boards. • Assisted with technical and business development expertise the fundraising activities of the Company. • Worked actively with Sales and Marketing to establish and train sales, reps and distribution network for the Company throughout US, as well as in Europe and Asia. Performed technical and business discussions, as well as applications identification and support. • Established and managed customer and partner demo and development platforms deployment and evaluation process. • Facilitated and managed off-sourcing relationships with companies in US and Asia. • Organized and actively participated in several Industry Shows and Events, including the Consumer Electronic Show, the Embedded Systems Conference, the Power Application Asia Road-show. That included giving technology talks at the Show, handling booth presentations, organizing and handling customer meetings in private meeting rooms. |
| Employer: | Droplet Technology, Inc., Cupertino, California |
| Position: | Co-Founder, CEO and President, May 2000 – August 2004.CTO since August 2004, Video Compression and Processing company |
| Time period: | May 2000 - May 2006 |
| Employer: | Philips Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, California |
| Position: | Technical Consultant in the Video Area |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2000 |
| Description: | Developed, evaluated and recommended video compression and processing solutions for the Multimedia market – set-top box devices with PVR (personal video recording) capabilities. Negotiated commercial licensing agreements. |
| Employer: | Interval Research Corp., Palo Alto, California |
| Position: | Project Leader of the Video Compression Area, MRS |
| Time period: | January 1997 - December 2000 |
| Description: | Responsible for video and image compression as well as general broadband applications.
• Technical: Developed new wavelet video compression algorithm that achieves similar high performance as the industry MPEG2 standard algorithms, for 20 times reduction in complexity, cost and power. • Standards: Actively participated in the work of the Digital Media standards organizations – MPEG, JPEG, Motion-JPEG. Represented the Company in the developments in the video and digital images areas. Attended and contributed at national and international standards meetings. • Technical: Authored and co-authored 8 patent applications on the technology (7 issued patents), as well as numerous refereed publications and invited talks throughout the World (in front of audiences as large as few thousand people with diverse technical background). • Management: Technical project leader for the large video group of researchers dedicated to building implementations of new video compression technology for a number of platforms, including: PCs, VLIW media processor platforms (Philips TriMedia and Equator's MAP platform) as well as FPGA hardware implementation. • Business Development: Actively pursued commercialization of the technology for a number of application markets as a licensing opportunity. Organized and delivered licensing and technology presentations to more than 30 companies (US, Europe, Asia, Australia). Participated on Panels and demonstrated the technology at industry trade shows, including Western Cable Show, CES, Cable 2K and for individual companies. |
| Employer: | Stanford University, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA |
| Position: | Visiting Lecturer |
| Time period: | January 1992 - December 2006 |
| Description: | Taught courses on Robotics and Manipulation (CS223A). This course is one of the largest graduate engineering courses attended by Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and other engineering majors. |
| Employer: | Interval Research Corp., Palo Alto, California |
| Position: | Member of the Research Staff |
| Time period: | January 1992 - December 1997 |
| Description: | Initiated research on a variety of topics related to computer science and future information technology.
• Designed and implemented a pioneering approach, algorithm and software for compression of data defined on 3D and higher dimensional objects with wide-ranging applications in signal processing, 3D graphics and compression • Initiated research and developed software for 3D haptics (force feedback) and visual interaction with complicated objects, with applications in virtual reality, 3D graphics and robotics. Authored a breakthrough patent in that area • Developed algorithms and software in the area of evolutionary computation and adaptive algorithms for parametric analysis and optimization. Developed innovative algorithms for searching and processing large databases for Internet, interface and HCI applications. Evaluated new methods for consumer research and related human studies issues and approaches. |
| Employer: | Stanford University, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA |
| Position: | Doctoral Studies |
| Time period: | January 1987 - December 1992 |
| Description: | Researched in the areas of optimization, design, kinematics and dynamics of robotic manipulators. |
| Employer: | Institute for Civil Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Position: | Visiting Professor |
| Time period: | January 1985 - December 1987 |
| Description: | Taught large undergraduate and graduate classes on Numerical Methods, Optimization and Computer Science. |
| Employer: | Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Position: | Senior Research Associate |
| Time period: | January 1983 - December 1987 |
| Description: | Main research areas were computer science, operations research, mathematics, artificial intelligence and robotics. |
| Employer: | University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| Position: | Mathematician, Post-Graduate Work |
| Time period: | January 1982 - December 1983 |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 1992 |
| Degree: | Mechanical Engineering with Ph.D. Minor in Computer Science, PhD |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 1990 |
| Degree: | Mechanical Engineering, MSc |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | • Author of more than 40 publications in renowned books, journals and refereed conference proceedings. Please see http://ai.stanford.edu/~krasi/pubs.html for detailed list and copies.
• Member of the ACM, IEEE and SIAM. Reviewer for a number of renowned journals and international conferences. • Invited talks include: Stanford University; MIT; Philips Research in Eindhoven, Holland; EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland; The Geometry Center, Minneapolis; NASA Ames Visualization Center: The Santa Fe Institute; SRI International; US West; Information Science Institute at USC; CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) in Sydney, Australia; Power.Org Asia Communication Forum (Shanghai, Tokyo); and a large number of renowned international conferences and trade shows. |
| Patents: | Author of 24 patents (11 issued, 13 pending) and more than 40 publications in renowned books, journals and refereed conference proceedings. Please see http://ai.stanford.edu/~krasi/pubs.html for detailed list and copies. |
