Dr. B. Gopinath

Executive Summary

Serial entrepreneur and pioneering technologist with 55+ years driving breakthrough innovations in AI, control systems, and telecommunications. Created the Gopinath Observer—now embedded in millions of devices globally—and Gopinath-Sondhi Equation with applications from speech synthesis to oil exploration. Founded multiple successful ventures including Aplion Networks (first programmable internet service platform, acquired by Cisco), All Conferencing (first internet audio conferencing service), and Simplia (conversational AI marketplace). Currently incubating next-generation AI ventures and recruiting co-founder CEOs. Expert in AI strategy, IP, and commercialization, and translating complex innovation into commercial success.

Core Competencies

AI Strategy & Roadmap Development — Enterprise AI transformation
Conversational AI & NLP — Linguistic models, dialogue systems, & collaboration platforms.
Human-AI Collaboration — Optimizing human-in-the-loop AI & human workflows.

Business Process Automation — Canonical process modeling, AI enabled workflows.
System Architecture & Integration — Scalable AI platforms & legacy modernization.
Technology Innovation & IP — Patent portfolio development, R&D leadership.

Professional Experience

Lotus Interworks Inc - Incubator - Founder & CEO 1992-Present

Network Programs & Founder & CEO 1992-2002

Optical Network Management Systems development solutions. AT&T, Fujitsu.
Orchestrated & scaled to 200 employees worldwide, including India-hosted development subsidiary.

Network Machines (Aplion Networks) — Smart Routers, Founder 1998-2002

Cloud and web services pioneer. Founder-led and took public (NASDAQ)
Pioneering the first programmable Patented hardware/software platform for SMB's.
Raised Millions of Dollars from Hambrecht & Quist, Intel Capital.
Scaled to 140 employees worldwide, including India-based development subsidiary
Successfully sold technology to Cisco Systems.

All Conferencing, Inc. - Audio Conferencing Services — Founder & CEO 2001-2019

Built and scaled the first audio conferencing service marketed digitally.
Successfully sold the company to private investors.

Simplia - Conversational AI Marketplace — Founder & CEO 2009-2011

Pioneered two-sided conversational AI marketplace.
Novel linguistic models for classified ads. Like a conversational AI Enabled Craigs List!

Simplia - Platform for AI Agents — Humans + AI — Founder & CEO 2019-2022

Created an AI-Human "Tag Team" to create Foundational Models for SMB's and fund ways to market to the challenging SMB segment. Scaled revenues to $4M ARR.

State of New Jersey Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rutgers University | 1988 – 1998

Led research in advanced communication systems, signal processing, and control theory.
Bridged academic research and industry applications, advising telecommunications and technology companies.

AT&T Bell Laboratories / Bellcore | 1967 – 1988

Led multidisciplinary research teams developing next-generation communication systems, software architectures, and intelligent network technologies.
Invented and developed one of the earliest symbolic math programs to discover closed-form formulas for queuing problems in data networks.
Invented S/R model for protocol and system verification, advanced further as standard by R. P. Kurshan at Cadence.
Invented a method & device for Charge Coupled Devices (Guillemin-Cauer Award 1979)
Invented the Gopinath-Sondhi algorithm for speech synthesis.
Secured fundamental patents in digital signal processing, switching systems, software object composition, and wireless technologies.

Signature Innovations

Gopinath Observer

Invented foundational control system algorithm deployed in millions globally — from spacecraft navigation to industrial automation & even coffee machines!
Now built into System-on-Chip (SoC) designs and integrated into millions of induction motors manufactured annually worldwide.

Gopinath-Sondhi Equation

Developed non-invasive speech synthesis methodology reconstructing vocal tract shape from lip measurements only.
Applied beyond speech to oil exploration and earthquake sensitivity testing for large structures, demonstrating cross-domain innovation impact.

Honors & Recognition

IEEE Life Fellow — Elected for contributions to modeling and analysis of communication systems.

30+ U.S. Patents — Fundamental innovations in digital communications, software architecture, wireless systems, and AI.

15+ Ph. D Students Mentored at Columbia University, UC Berkeley & Rutgers University.

100+ Technical Publications — Peer-reviewed research in leading IEEE, ACM, and industry journals.

Representative Technologies & Applications

Aerospace & Defense: Flight control systems (helicopters, fighter jets), satellite control algorithms.

Industrial Automation: Steel plant process control, electric motor automation.

Telecommunications: Digital touch tone receivers, switching systems, optical network management, wireless roaming.

AI & Software: Conversational AI platforms, software object composition, systems verification tools.

Signal Processing: Speech compression, text-to-speech, acoustic measurement, structural analysis.

Exploration & Analytics: Oil and gas discovery algorithms, acoustic-based media exploration.