Arul Chandrasekaran
Engineering Head and Kernel Expert
Innovation Platform & AI
After becoming an expert on intrusion detection, vulnerability, and public key cryptography for major banks like Centurion and ABN Amro Bank, Arul joined Apple. As part of Apple’s prestigious secret projects group, Arul helped invent the world's first smartphone – iPhone 1. On that initiative, he designed, developed, and implemented the security and activation platform cryptographically. He also developed a secure manufacturing environment that prevented the iPhone from being cryptographically attacked. Arul left Apple to join the startup world as CTO of Avot Media which he took from the proof-of-concept stage to a successful M&A. When Avot was acquired by Smith Micro, a developer and marketer of both enterprise and consumer-level software and services, Arul became director of the video and voice businesses. There, he built on-demand and live streaming capabilities for companies like Sprint and Warner Bros. Beyond his business acumen, Arul writes code in many languages – from the kernel-level code to Python.
Patents for Iterate.ai
Patent granted
Modular Machine Learning [Drag and Droppable Quick AI]
9/15/2020
United States of America
J. Selvadurai, A. Chandrasekaran, S. Jacob, B. Sathianathan, C. Samarasinghe, D. Ruvalcaba Gonzalez
App. No. 10,776,686
Patent Pending
Dynamic Feature Loading
United States of America
B. Sathianathan, C. Samarasinghe, A. Chandrasekaran, S. Jacob, J. Selvadurai
Patent granted
Developer Independent Resource Based Multithreading Module
02/23/2021
United States of America
A. Chandrasekaran, C. Samarasinghe, B. Sathianathan
App. No. 10,929,181
Patent Pending
Developer Independent Resource Based Multithreading Module
WO
A. Chandrasekaran, C. Samarasinghe, B. Sathianathan
Patent Pending
Fusion Between Computer Vision Object Detection and Radar Object Detection
18-May-23
USA
B. Sathianathan, A. Chandrasekaan, C. Samarasinghe, S. Jacob
App. No. 63/503,094
- Video Streaming Apparatus with Quantization and Method thereof. Patent #8,279,925 Smith Micro Software, Inc. (acquired from Arul's startup, Avot Media)
- Method And System For Streaming Live Teleconferencing Feed To Mobile Client Devices Patent #8,782,270 Smith Micro Software, Inc. (acquired from Arul's startup, Avot Media)
More About Arul Chandrasekaran
My most successful innovation work ...
iPhone - converting an electronic device to become a phone. Note: for his contribution to the invention, Apple gave Arul one of the first iPhones (IMEIs) ever produced. Arul told Jon Nordmark, "I don't think it was the first IMEI. It's probably 3rd or 4th one. We gave the first one to Tony (Fadell)." An IMEI is an International Equipment identity.
An a-ha moment that changed my way of innovating was ...
As part of creating Digital signatures & securing email communications end-to-end, I invented a plugin to interact with any desktop client like Outlook and seamlessly created secure communications. It was a unique idea built almost two decades before its time.
My most inspiring project at Iterate ...
Changing the Node JS v8 core at the kernel level by creating a pool of threads and allocating tasks similar to a standard CPU scheduler ... but intelligently allocating and reallocating resources depending on computational needs in real-time --- i.e. lower CPU-intensive tasks vs. higher computational intensive tasks. This was invented as part of the Interplay core platform.
Qualities of an innovator
- Think outside the box
- Ask these questions: "Why is it needed? Why not something else?"
- Evaluate concepts from a variety of perspectives
Honors
- B.E. (Hons) Civil Engineering
- M.S (Software Systems)
