Yeshwant Muthusamy

Dr.

Yeshwant

Muthusamy is an artificial intelligence technologist and executive based in Allen, Texas, with more than thirty years of work across the field. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute, where his doctoral research centered on automatic language identification, a specialization in spoken-language AI that long predates the current wave of interest.

His career has moved between research labs and engineering organizations at Texas Instruments, Nokia, Samsung Research America, Toyota, and Immersion Corporation, where he served as Chief Technology Officer. In these roles he built and mentored technical teams, set technology strategy, and managed large patent portfolios. He holds seven U.S. patents and has published four book chapters, four journal articles, and twenty-five peer-reviewed conference papers.

Since founding Yeshvik Solutions in 2016, Dr. Muthusamy has focused on helping companies put AI to practical use. He has built generative AI applications with the OpenAI and LangChain APIs, designed retrieval-augmented chatbots on Microsoft Azure that prioritize factual accuracy over guesswork, and developed a machine learning model that predicts tire-tread depth with better than 93 percent accuracy on the safety-critical cases.

He also chairs the AI Working Group at the Government Blockchain Association, where he is leading a rewrite of a framework for evaluating the trustworthiness of AI systems.

A consistent thread in his work is translation: making AI understandable to the people who have to use it but did not build it. He created and taught “Generative AI for the Rest of Us,” a continuing-education course for executives and other non-technical professionals, and has run hands-on AI programs for entire company workforces. He was named to the Dallas Innovates 2025 AI 75, selected from more than 800 nominees.

Owner & Principal (AI Strategy, Governance & Advisory) — Yeshvik Solutions, LLC, Allen, TX Feb 2016 – Present

• Own the AI agenda for client organizations — strategy, roadmap, build, governance, and enablement — and serve as their senior AI advisor and external thought leader.
• Build generative AI applications and agents (OpenAI, LangChain) and retrieval-augmented assistants on Azure; advise leaders on the business case for AI and on integrating it into operations, with governance built in from the start.
• Speak and publish widely on generative and responsible AI; named to the Dallas Innovates 2025 AI 75 (from 800+ nominees).

Chief Technology Officer / VP & Sr. Director, Standards — Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ: IMMR) Jan 2020 – Dec 2022

• Owned technology and ecosystem strategy as CTO; briefed executives and the board, and served as the company's public face across global standards organizations and industry forums.
• Led engineering teams, negotiated partner and licensing agreements, and managed a 2,500+ patent portfolio to maximize value — operating at the intersection of technical depth and executive decision-making.

AI Principal — Improving, Plano, TX Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

• Architected an enterprise retrieval-augmented knowledge assistant on Azure OpenAI, prioritizing factual reliability so domain experts could trust the output in production use.

Technology Innovation Architect — Toyota Motor North America, Plano, TX Mar 2018 – Jan 2020

• Drove integration of AI and emerging technology into business-unit operations — not just product — building AI chatbots deployed across channels and running the vendor evaluation that shaped a business-unit decision.

Director of R&D / Senior Manager — Samsung Research America, Richardson, TX Aug 2012 – Jan 2016

• Led R&D programs and cross-lab teams; represented the company across international standards bodies, securing strategic and IP outcomes through multi-company negotiation.

Earlier: Technology and standards leadership at Nokia (Chair, OpenMAX AL Working Group; representative on the Khronos Board of Promoters) and Texas Instruments (ETSI / ITU-T liaison) — three decades representing companies before external bodies and communicating with engineers and C-suite alike.

Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering — Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, OR.

B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering — JNTU, Hyderabad, India (1st in class).

• Named to the Dallas Innovates 2025 AI 75.
• Lead author, IETF RFC 9695.
• Senior Member, IEEE.
• Seven issued U.S. patents. Four book chapters, four journal articles, and 25+ peer-reviewed publications.