Anil Unnikrishnan
Anil leads engineering at Sauron Industries as VP of Engineering, building Physical AI for the home: edge devices that perceive, reason, and act in real environments.
Before Sauron, he spent eight years at Samsung Research America and STAR Labs, where he was a founding engineer of NEON, Samsung’s digital human lab, taking photorealistic AI avatars from research to Samsung Experience Stores and the Samsung App. He is a named inventor on several U.S. patents, and holds a Master’s from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Mahatma Gandhi University.