About Zendar

Vinayak co-founded Zendar in May 2017 to develop advanced imaging radars for autonomous systems. Prior to Zendar, Vinayak developed instrumentation for radio astronomy imaging that enabled projects like the first sub-millimeter images of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Vinayak got his PhD in EE from UC Berkeley and has held research positions at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Nokia Bell Labs.

Jimmy co-founded Zendar in May 2017 to develop advanced imaging radar systems for autonomous systems. Prior to Zendar, Jimmy was a Lead Research Engineer at HERE Technology (previously Earthmine, acquired by HERE Nokia in 2011), where he led the software and algorithm development for processing city- scale 3D street level imageries.

Jimmy obtained his PhD in Vision Science from UC Berkeley, focusing on unsupervised machine learning and computer vision.

Sunil, a long term automotive and semiconductor executive, joined Zendar in May 2021 as its Chief Business Officer. Prior to Zendar, Sunil was the Vice President and GM for Synaptics' Video Interface business where he led the acquisition and integration of DisplayLink (a UK Corporation). At Synaptics, Sunil was also the VP of automotive business unit that was built from the ground up under Sunil’s leadership. Before Synaptics, Sunil was the GM for Cypress Semiconductors’ Automotive business, where Sunil was part of the team that transformed Cypress into an automotive company. Prior to Cypress, Sunil held various GM positions with Texas instruments. Sunil holds advanced engineering degrees and an MBA.

Antonio joined Zendar in 2018 and is currently the VP of Engineering, leading both hardware and software development teams. Antonio received his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of California Berkeley, where he worked on chip, system, and signal processing development for mm-wave communication link.

Uwe joined Zendar in 2021 as a Chief Architect and leads R&D efforts in the German office, which includes design for mass production and defining radar signal processing chains. Prior to Zendar, Uwe worked for Continental and subsequently ZF, and has a combined 21 years of experience in the automotive radar industry.
Uwe spearheaded development of the Continental ARS300, and more recently the imaging radar at ZF. In doing so, Uwe has helped defined NXPs first microcontroller (Racerunner) with an integrated signal processing engine and also shaped the RF-CMOS chip development from its infancy. Uwe received his master in electrical engineering at the University of Ravensburg.