Vic (Vishvjit Singh) Nalwa is President of FullView, which he cofounded in 2000 with Bell Labs — after inventing FullView's 360° camera there in 1995. He webcast David Bowie, live from Manhattan, with this camera in 1999 and demonstrated it there to his co-alum Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong in 2000.

At 16, based only on an annual anony­mous­ly-taken all-India entrance exam, and nothing else — to preclude tribalism, cronyism, and puffery — he skip­ped his senior year at St. Columba's School for the 240-odd fresh­man class at one of then five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). At IIT Kanpur, he won the First Prize for Academic Excellence in the Core Curriculum in 1981, and he was its Best Graduating Student in Electrical Engineering ("EE") in 1983, both with two others. He then received from Stanford University, on its inaugural ISL Fellow­ship, the M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) Degrees in EE.

He was next a Principal Investigator ("PI") at Bell Labs Research, whose PIs have won 10 Nobel Prizes, including one for CCD cameras. After a talk there in 1993 that des­cribed three comp­et­ing efforts at Bell Labs Research — by teams from its Neural Net­works, Stat­istics, and Rob­ot­ics Dep­art­ments over several years — to auto­mat­ic­ally auth­ent­icate sig­nat­ures signed on sig­nat­ure pads such as ubiquit­ous today, he opined that the state of the art, its equal error rate, could be imp­rov­ed by an order of magnitude, ten­fold. When chall­eng­ed to show how, he did, over two summer months. For this, the Presi­dent of Bell Labs, who'd been seek­ing his resi­g­nat­ion for in­sub­ord­inat­ion for obsessing over his book below for 3+ years, there­on aff­ord­ed him un­fett­ered free­dom instead, which led to FullView. Also for this, in 1994, he won a Bell-Labs-wide comp­et­it­ion on uses of a "chip" on a credit card.

He was concurrently on the faculty of Princeton University in 1989, which led him to write A Guided Tour of Computer Vision, Addison-Wesley, 1993, a text used to teach, train, and qualify Ph.D. candidates in Artificial Intelli­gence ("AI") and Computer Science ("CS"), as at Stanford. He's been re­cog­nized for his patents and publications; he's prevailed in all patent liti­gat­ion to which he's been a party or an expert; and he's been invited world­wide to describe his research — as by UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Technion, TU Delft, IIT Delhi, HKU, and INRIA. He was Associate Editor of IEEE PAMI over 1994 – 98 and was elected Fellow of IEEE in 2004.

His dad, a midshipman in WWII at 16, was court martialed in 1946 for the Royal Indian Naval Mutiny, which led to India's independence. Another lineal ancestor, Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837), who joined the Sikh Army at 14 and rose to lead it, is widely mythologized for driving Afghan Rule from India to beyond the Khyber Pass, building a fort at its mouth he died defending.

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