Expanding AI Capabilities in Test and Measurement

Advanced tools like the NI Nigel AI Advisor will change the way engineers address test and measurement, reducing complexity and accelerating workflows.

Alix Paultre

Rudy Sengupta

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Electronic Design

Oct. 20, 2026

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Product engineering, development, and validation are plagued by disconnected tools and manual processes. Advanced development tools using AI optimized for test can enhance engineering efficiency through intelligent automation.

Emerson’s Nigel AI is built on the latest industry models, leveraging them to take advantage of rapidly evolving technology using the latest test methodologies, test system design, and data analysis. Nigel will give you highly relevant technical answers for test application questions because it was custom-built for that purpose.

In this podcast, we talk with Rudy Sengupta, Senior VP and CTO at Emerson, about the company’s efforts in next-generation, AI-based test and development. With Nigel, you can generate code and sequences from a prompt, debug your applications, review projects faster, and much more. Nigel has direct access to product documentation and receives the context of your project, making answers more reliable and better at helping you in the development process. Answers aren’t generic; they’re specifically tailored for you.

About the Author

Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.

Rudy Sengupta

Vice President and General Manager, Test and Analytics Software Emerson NI

As vice president and general manager of test and analytics software at Emerson’s test and measurement business, formerly NI, Rudy Sengupta is responsible for driving differentiation and resiliency through software and recurring revenue growth.

With almost two decades of experience at NI, Sengupta has held multiple progressive leadership positions in engineering, product management and strategy. Most recently, he served as vice president of product management and software growth strategy, focused on software portfolio transformation and product strategy across a broad product portfolio of RF, precision, conditioned measurement, communication, and data-acquisition hardware and application software.

Sengupta holds a Bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, with a technical focus on embedded systems and communication networks. He's still engaged with the university as a member of the Electrical Engineering Advisor Board.