Kar-Han Tan is Founder of Helpful Robotics LLC and Distinguished Technologist at HP Inc., where he is leading the development of an AI Platform to power next-generation products. Previously he was Head of Research & Development at Singtel NCS, where he founded and led a new organization which includes corporate research labs like SCALE@NTU as well as product management and engineering departments. Before NCS he was Vice President of Engineering at NovuMind, where he led the development of full-stack artificial intelligence technologies and solutions. Previously he led the HP computer vision team that built and launched the Sprout, the first PC with computer vision and mixed reality capabilities. Sprout features include object segmentation, 3D scanning, and real-time collaboration capabilities that leverage Kar Han’s work on gaze-aware immersive communication at HP Labs. Earlier, he was manager of the algorithms group at Epson R&D, where he led the invention of advanced projection and imaging technologies. Kar Han earned his M.S. from UCLA and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.