Veeresh Taranalli is a researcher working at the intersection of various technical fields such as computer vision, robotics and artificial intelligence. He is currently a software engineer at Zoox, SF Bay Area, CA. Previously, he was a staff research engineer at Netradyne, San Diego, CA.

He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017, both from the University of California San Diego. His Ph.D. research areas were error characterization, channel modeling and applications of modern coding techniques such as LDPC and polar codes for NAND Flash memories. He received the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal in 2009.

From 2009 to 2011, he was a full-time software engineer at National Instruments, India. He also has completed multiple internships during his education at Microsoft Research (2008), Entropic Communications (acquired by MaxLinear, 2012) and Intel Corporation (2014, 2015).