Director, AI Research & Incubations
Microsoft
Vivan is Director of AI Research & Incubations at Microsoft Research, turning embodied and agentic AI into deployable systems for the physical world.
Vivan leads cross-functional teams to translate robotics foundation models, reinforcement learning, and LLM-Ops into cloud-and-edge autonomy.
Previous leadership roles across L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing inform a focus on digital twins, secure autonomy, and dual-use impact.