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KONDEPUDI Sekhar


​Dr. Sekhar Kondepudi is currently an Associate Professor of Smart Buildings, Smart Cities and IoT at the National University of Singapore.

He has 25 years of global business and product experience in a variety of technology verticals related to the Built Environment including IoT, Smart Cities, Energy, Buildings, Utilities, Networking, Voice, Semiconductors, Healthcare & Public Safety. He also is active in Smart City and IoT Standards work with the ITU (UN).

In the past, Dr. Kondepudi has led Global Product Management and Business Development for Smart+ Connected Communities (S+CC) at Cisco Systems developing software, related products and solutions for Smart Buildings and Smart Cities.

Previously, Prof. Kondepudi has been General Manager of Mobile Devices for Wind River Systems, Director of Business Development at Motorola, has worked at a variety of high tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, with the electric utilities industry at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA).