Duncan Hudson
Chief Platform Officer
As Chief Platform Officer for National Instruments,
Duncan G. Hudson III is responsible for guiding the
evolution of NI’s product platform and leading the
R&D fellows.
Previously, as an NI Business and Technology Fellow,
Hudson served as an internal consultant and led
architecture and technology decision processes for product initiatives on a global
scale while developing and mentoring R&D talent.
Hudson cofounded the annual NI technology conference, NITech, and created
the NI Vision to Architecture group, which aims to solve the company’s toughest
technology and architecture problems. His current areas of interest span the NI
LabVIEW portfolio of products for test and measurement, embedded system
design, and science and engineering education.
Hudson received the 2011 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Technology
Innovation from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
(TAMEST).
Hudson holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science from The
University of Texas at Austin. His research at UT focused on graphical
programming and parallel numeric computation, applications, and compilation.