Vinay Jammu is the VP-Physical-Digital Technologies at GE Digital based at the John F Welch Technology Organization, Bangalore. He is responsible for strategy and execution of domain-based analytics and software to differentiate GE’s Industrial Internet Solutions. Before this role, Vinay was Technology Director for Software and Analytics in GE Research where he spent 23 years driving physical-digital technologies.

Vinay obtained his doctoral degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1996 in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for machine prognosis. After a brief stint at Mechanical Technology Inc, NY, he joined GE Global Research, Schenectady, NY in 1997 as Diagnostics Engineer where he focused on developing predictive analytics for failure and life prediction of industrial assets. Vinay relocated to Bangalore in 2002 and held multiple roles as Lab Manager, Technology Leader and Technology Director for Aero-Thermal and Mechanical Systems as well as Software and Analytics organizations in GE Global Research. Vinay is a certified master black belt, has 40 patents applications, and 60+ internal and external publications. Vinay is recipient of Zinnov Technology Role Model Award and has been named in the Top 150 AI Makers in India by 3AI organization.