Sid Khullar

Northvolt

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Sid is Senior Director, Machine Learning R&D at Northvolt, which is focused on the development of new battery chemistries and unlocking efficiencies for Giga-scale sustainable battery manufacturing.

Sid has developed a diverse background working at Apple, Microsoft Research, Eight Sleep, Quanttus and MIT. He’s worked on autonomous systems, AR/VR, machine learning, and health. Sid completed his PhD (Imaging Science) from Rochester Institute of Technology, NY in 2013 with a focus on functional neuroimaging and image processing. During his PhD, he spent 18 months at the MIT Media Lab where he co-invented a wearable retinal imaging system that went on to win the MIT 100k challenge and the Invention of the year at Dow Chemicals Impact Conference in 2012.

He’s originally from New Delhi, India, spend 15 years in the US and now lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife. Sid has been active in the Stockholm Startup community as an angel investor and advisor to a few startup incubators in the region.