Dr. Vijay Balasubramaniyan is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Board Member at Pindrop. He has held various engineering and research roles with Google, Siemens, IBM Research, and Intel. He holds patents in VoIP security and scalability and he frequently speaks on phone fraud threats at technical conferences, including CCS and ICDCS. Vijay was recently recognized by the MIT Technology Review's annual Innovators Under 35 list as an outstanding inventor. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis was on telecommunications security. He is also an Angel Investor.