Arvind Thiagarajan is the Founder & CEO of HD Medical Inc. He is an inventor and entrepreneur with a history of founding, advising, and building technology companies.
Arvind was given a special award from Member of Parliament for Science and Technology from the Government of India for his contributions to research and science and his work as part of HD Medical won the Socially Relevant Product (SRP) award in IIT Madras. His inventions have helped in screening thousands of children and people in India and worldwide. The HD Medical ViScope® Visual Stethoscope, invented by Arvind, was used to screen 30,000 children as part of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) initiative in Kerala State in India to detect cardiac murmurs and defects.
His second invention, a data compression technology called ABO (Adaptive Binary Optimization) at MatrixView was chosen as the “Top 5 evolving technologies” by CNBC Asia; named twice the Frost & Sullivan “Best Technology Award” for medical imaging. Hundreds of hospitals worldwide use MatrixView’s technology for solving storage and transmission issues. Arvind took MatrixView Public in the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) at $50 Million market cap value at IPO, and the stock price went up to more than $250 Million market cap value at its peak.
Arvind was mentored by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the former President of India. He graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy one of the four constituent colleges of the Anna University in India with an engineering degree in Electronics and Communications. Arvind specializes in signal processing and algorithm development with multiple granted and pending patents along with several award winning technical publications under his name.