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Thiru Vikram
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Thiru Vikram (Thiru Vikram Suresh; born July 25, 1995) is an inventor, engineer and entrepreneur, who is the CEO of Buffalo Automation, a private company headquartered in Buffalo, New York, that provides autonomous navigation technology for commercial ships and recreational boats.[1][2][3][4]
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Early life and career
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Vikram attended the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India.[5] Vikram was a Head Boy and a member of the Robotics Club at Lovedale.[6]
He studied computer science and electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he founded Buffalo Automation with fellow students.[7][8] The company was founded to design and build an artificial intelligence system called AutoMate that enables ships and boats to self-navigate.[9][10] In 2016, Vikram left the University at Buffalo to focus on the company full-time.[11][12][13] However, in 2021, Vikram was recognized as a distinguished alumnus by the University at Buffalo despite having dropped out.[14][15]
Although naturalized in 2016 as an American, Vikram is originally a Dravidian from Tamil Nadu and is a Hindu descended from the Kamma section of the erstwhile Poligars of South India, belonging to the few remaining households that still speak Old Telugu due to their split from the Andhras many centuries ago, when they left Kammanadu to lead the Nayaka armies of the Vijayanagara Empire and, subsequently, settle in their present family seats in modern-day Tiruppur district.[16][17][5][18][19]
Vikram served in the US Army Reserve as a combat engineer under the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest program.[20]
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Awards and recognitions
Vikram was awarded first place in the 2018 Entrepreneurs' Organization Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards Western NY Competition.[21] In 2022, Vikram was featured as one of the United States’ 18 Top CEOs in the Assistive Technology Startup Space and among the Top 44 in Navigation by Boardroom Media.[22][23]
Inventions
Vikram is listed as an inventor in a few patents, including:
- A sensor system for maritime vessels.[24]
- A deep learning intelligent sensing system integration.[25]
- Training a deep learning system for maritime applications.[26]
- A deep learning intelligent sensing system for port operations.[27]
- A lane and object detection systems and methods.[28]
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