Alok Aggarwal
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| Alok Aggarwal | |
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| Born | May 4, 1959 |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | India Institute of Technology Delhi and Johns Hopkins University |
| 💼 Occupation | Computer Scientist and Entrepreneur |
| Title | Chief Executive Officer and Chief Data Scientist at Scry AI |
| 🌐 Website | scryai.com |
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Alok Aggarwal is an Indian American computer scientist and an entrepreneur. Since 2014, he has been the chief executive officer of Scry AI[1] (formerly known as Scry Analytics).[2]
Early Life and Education[edit]
Alok Aggarwal was born in Delhi, India in 1959.[3] In 1980, he earned his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.[4] Thereafter, he moved to the United States to pursue higher education and research. In 1981 he completed his Master of Science[5] and in 1984, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.[6][7]
Research Career[edit]
From 1984 to 2000, he pursued research in Computer Science at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.[8][9][10]
Entrepreneurial Career[edit]
Alok Aggarwal has built the following four organizations:
Founder and First Director of IBM's India Research Laboratory, IRL, (1998–2000)[edit]
In July 1997, IBM Research Division announced the formation of IBM's India Research Laboratory (IRL). On April 1, 1998, Alok Aggarwal founded IRL inside IIT Delhi.[11]
Co-founder and Chairman of Evalueserve (2001–2013)[edit]
In January 2001, he co-founded Evalueserve and became its chairman.[12]
Founder of Scry Analytics (2014 - present)[edit]
In 2013, Alok Aggarwal stepped down from being the Chairman of the Board of Evalueserve. In February 2014, he founded Scry AI[13] (formerly known as Scry Analytics)[14]and became its chairman and CEO. Scry AI focuses on research and advanced development (R&D) in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and related disciplines. Its primary R&D centers are located in San Jose, California, and Gurgaon, Pune, Noida and Hyderabad, India. The company has five product lines that optimize business workflows and improve their key performance indicators such as quality, timeliness, revenue, cost, customer experience, compliance, and operational risks.[15]
Voice of Cancer Patients[edit]
Alok Aggarwal collaborated with his wife Dr. Sangeeta Aggarwal (hematologist-oncologist) and a team of researchers to establish the Voice of Cancer Patients[16] platform. The main goals of this platform are to exploit AI-based techniques for providing critical insights regarding cancer patients and survivors, known and often-not-known side effects of cancer drugs and therapies, as well as roadmaps of patients' journeys as they fight cancer.
Boards and Committees[edit]
- Editorial boards of SIAM Journal of Computing,[17][18] Algorithmica, and Journal of Symbolic Computation.[19]
- Chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing.[20][21]
Awards and Recognition[edit]
- IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for "Matrix Searching," 1989.[22]
- IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for "Complexity of Access and Transfer of Data," 1989.[23]
- IBM Research Division, Technical Group Award, for building "Madison Paper Industries Scheduling Solution," 1996.[24]
- Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research" from INFORMS, 1998.[25]
- Indian Institute of Technology, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2008.[26]
Personal Life[edit]
Alok and Dr. Sangeeta Aggarwal[27] have two children, Dr. Adeeti Aggarwal (MD-PhD, Neuroscience) and Prof. Amol Aggarwal[28] (Columbia University, Math Department).
Issued Patents[edit]
Alok Aggarwal authored the following eight patents that were approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office:
- "Honoring of Electronic Coupons," issued on March 21, 2006, patent number 7,016,860.[29]
- "Generation, distribution, storage, redemption, validation and clearing of electronic coupons," issued on March 14, 2006, patent number 7,013,286.[30]
- "On-line negotiations with dynamic profiling," issued on April 26, 2005, patent number 6,886,000.[31]
- "Clustering in wireless ad hoc networks," issued on April 5, 2005, patent number 6,876,643.[32]
- "Achieving buyer-seller anonymity for unsophisticated users under collusion amongst intermediaries" issued on March 29, 2005, patent number 6,873,977.[33]
- "Data embedding scheme with error diffusion," issued on June 11, 2002, patent number 6,404,899.[34]
- "Interactive multimedia virtual classes requiring small online network bandwidth" issued on April 30, 2002, patent number 6,381,444.[35]
- "Compression-tolerant watermarking scheme for image authentication Honoring of Electronic Coupons," issued on June 12, 2001, patent number 6,246,777.[36]
References[edit]
- ↑ "About Us". Scry Ai. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ "LEADING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, SCRY ANALTYICS, ANNOUNCES NAME CHANGE TO SCRY AI". EIN News. 4 December 2023.
- ↑ "Birth Certificate.jpg". Google Docs. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ↑ "IIT Delhi Alumni Association". Alumni IIT Delhi.
- ↑ "Master of Science Degree John Hopkins.jpg". Google Docs. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ↑ "Conferring of Degrees by Johns Hopkins". jscholarship.library.jhu.edu. p. 63.
- ↑ "The Top 100 Johns Hopkins Alumni in Technology of 2021 - C-Suite Spotlight". 2021-11-01. p. 61. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ "IBM Matrix Searching.jpg". Google Docs. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ↑ "IBM Complexity of Access and Transfer of Data.jpg". Google Docs. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ↑ "Technical Group Award IBM.jpg". Google Docs. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ↑ "IIT DELHI Website". alumni iit delhi.
- ↑ "Sourcing Superstars: Alok Aggarwal & Marc Vollenweider, Evalueserve". SSON. 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ↑ "Scry AI | AI-Based Enterprise Platform". Scry Ai. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ "CALIFORNIA NEWS SCRY ANALYTICS CHANGE TO SCRY AI". www.californiabusinessdigest.com.
- ↑ "Alok Aggarwal Continues to be CEO, Press Release". www.usnationaltimes.com.
- ↑ "Voice of Cancer Patients". Voice of Cancer Patients. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ "SIAM Journal Editorial Board" (PDF). siam.org.
- ↑ "SIAM Editorial Board" (PDF). siam.org.
- ↑ "Algorithmica Editor's foreword". Springer Algorithmica. doi:10.1007/BF01758748. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Foreword of Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science". Foreword IEEE. p. 3.
- ↑ "Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science". IEEE Explore. October 1986. doi:10.1109/SFCS.1986.21.
- ↑ "IBM MATRIX SEARCHING CERTIFICATE". CERTIFICATE.
- ↑ "IBM Complexity of Access and Transfer of Data.jpg". Google Docs. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
- ↑ "Technical Group Award IBM.jpg". Google Docs. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
- ↑ INFORMS. "Alok Aggarwal Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence". INFORMS. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
- ↑ "IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awards". IIT Delhi Alumni.
- ↑ "Dr. Sangeeta Aggarwal, MD – San Jose, CA | Oncology on Doximity". Doximity. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ "Amol Aggarwal". Clay Mathematics Institute. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/7016860
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/7013286
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/6886000
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/6876643
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/6873977
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/6404899
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/6381444
- ↑ https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/6246777
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