Dr. Manoj Aggarwal received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1995. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois during 1995-2001.
Dr. Aggarwal founded Mamigo Inc. in 2007 and he has since been leading the firm as its CEO/President, with world-class technical operations in Princeton and Bangalore with a team of 20 engineers. Mamigo develops video-based technologies for sports and surveillance applications. Earlier, he has worked at Sarnoff Corporation as a Technical Manager (2001-07).
Dr. Aggarwal is a recipient of the Ross J. Martin award for his outstanding research achievement as a graduate student in the College of Engineering at University of Illinois. He has invented and commercialized Video Flashlight technology for wide-area surveillance with other Sarnoff colleagues, and led several multi-million dollar government and commercial programmes in aerial and ground video surveillance. Besides being the key inventor of iris bio-metric technologies, Dr. Aggarwal has invented and built several next generation light-field cameras.
Dr. Aggarwal has about ten patents and 20 peer-reviewed publications to his credit in broad area of video surveillance.