Truong Nguyen

Truong Nguyen

Truong Q. Nguyen received all of his degrees from Caltech. He is currently a Professor & Chair at the ECE Dept., UCSD. His research interests are video processing algorithms and their efficient implementation.

San Diego, California, United States
Member since January 01, 2015
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Education
1989 Caltech , PhD , Electrical Engineering
I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
GojuLabs Inc
Companies I work or worked for:
MIT Lincoln Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Boston University, University of California, San Diego
Achievements (products built, personal awards won):

Over 400 IEEE Technical publications on Signal, Image and Video Processing
13 US patents
Best paper award, Signal Processing Society 1992
Boston University Technology Award, 1999
IEEE Fellow 2006

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I'm bursting with ideas!

My favorite startups:

Amazon, Facebook

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Most Frustrating: First paying customer & Scalability
Most Rewarding: Finding the last missing piece of the puzzle

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Not getting frequent critical feedback from customers throughout the development cycle

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. MVP
2. Frequent customer input
3. Pivot