Meera Sampatha, Director

Meera Sampath is Director, Xerox Research Centre India, a position she has held since January 2009.

The India Research Centre is Xerox’s latest global research location. Located in Bangalore, India, the centre brings together Xerox researchers with the best academic institutions, research labs, and industry partners in India to explore, develop and incubate innovative document solutions and services for Xerox’s global customers, with a special focus on emerging markets. In her role as Director, Meera is responsible for overseeing and growing the centre, developing and executing its research agenda, and nurturing Xerox’s Open Innovation partnerships in India.

Meera joined Xerox in 1996. As a member of research staff, and later as principal scientist at the Xerox Research Center Webster, she led several research projects developing innovative diagnostics and service technologies for printing systems including customer self help for image quality problems, self-diagnosing printing systems, and strategies for high availability printing systems. She holds 7 patents in this area, and has published a number of articles in leading scientific journals. Since 2005, Meera has been a key member and later leader of the team responsible for defining the Xerox Innovation Group’s expansion strategy in emerging markets. In this role she established Xerox’s first research collaborations with Indian institutions.

Meera is a senior member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. She has served on NSF panels for the Control, Networks, and Computational intelligence (CNCI) program, and the University Industry Co-operative Research (UICR) program, and as liaison manager for several Xerox Foundation University Affairs Committee (UAC) funded research projects.

Meera received her bachelor's degree from Anna University, India, master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, all in Electrical Engineering. At Michigan, she was a recipient of the Barbour Scholarship and the University's Distinguished Dissertation award for her PhD thesis on failure diagnosis.