Priya Nandakumar is Director of Engineering and Science at Kalour Defense & Intelligence. She brings more than twenty years of experience supporting Intelligence Community and Department of War missions across research, transition, and applied engineering.
She previously helped stand up structured technology-transition practices for advanced research organizations, directed product lines adopted by major semiconductor customers, and advised on failure analysis, magnetic imaging, pulsed laser deposition, directed energy, and superconducting systems.
Priya holds a Ph.D. in Physics, multiple U.S. patents, and a long record of peer-reviewed publications. She remains close to the technical work while guiding how Kalour’s engineering and science teams move capability into the field.