Ashutosh Saxena
| Ashutosh Saxena | |
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| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | Stanford University, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| 💼 Occupation | CEO, Caspar.AI |
Ashutosh Saxena is an Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. He is the co-founder and CEO of Caspar.AI, a high-tech artificial intelligence company that aims to make peoples' homes automated and learn from their preferences through the use of automated appliances and sensors. Before founding Caspar, Saxena also co-founded Cognical Zibby, a proprietary machine learning platform for the banking industry. He was an assistant professor and Director of RoboBrain project at Cornell University.[1]
Early life
Saxena received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2004 from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur before continuing his studies at Stanford University, where he received a masters degree in Computer Science in 2006, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2009.[2]
Career
Saxena began his early career as a Research Intern for Bose Corporation in 2003. From there, he moved to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Perth, Australia as Researcher in 2004 and to Microsoft in 2005 to take up another Research Intern role. From 2010 to 2013 Saxena was also Chief Scientist at New York-based Holopad.[3]
In addition to Caspar, Saxena has had other entrepreneurial ventures, such as ZunaVision, an AI startup which he co-founded with Andrew Ng that uses AI to assign advertising space within video content. Saxena served as CTO at ZunaVision from 2008 to 2010.[4] He is also the co-founder of Cognical Zibby, another AI startup that provided financing solutions to nonprime and underbanked consumers. Saxena remained at Cognical until 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Saxena served as the Director of the RoboBrain project, a venture that he started between Stanford University, Cornell University, Brown University, and the University of California, Berkeley that made a knowledge engine for robots.[5][6]
Saxena co-founded Caspar.AI with David Cheriton, who serves as Chief Scientist, in July 2015. Saxena has won awards for his work, such as the Google Faculty Research Award in 2012.[7] He was named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 2011, a Microsoft Faculty Fellow in 2012, received a NSF Career award in 2013,[8] and one of the Eight Innovators to Watch in 2015 by the Smithsonian Institution.[9]
Research and Publications
Saxena is also the author or co-author of over 100 published papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. His work in computer vision and deep learning has been featured in press releases and reviews. His early work includes the STAIR (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot)[10] and Make3D, which solved the problem of estimating depth from a single image, a problem that was considered unsolvable in the field of computer vision.[11] He built Brain4Cars technology May Prevent Accidents By Reading Drivers' Body Language.[12]
References
- ↑ "Ashutosh Saxena --- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Computer Science, Cornell/Stanford University". cs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ↑ "Ashutosh Saxena | Cornell Engineering". www.engineering.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ↑ "Ashutosh Saxena's Talk - June 29, 2017 - Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics | Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics". irm.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ↑ "Ashutosh Saxena, Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder at Zunavision - Relationship Science". relationshipscience.com. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ↑ Feltman, Rachel (2014-08-25). "This robot is using YouTube videos to learn all about us". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ↑ "The Plan to Build a Massive Online Brain for All the World's Robots". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ↑ "Indian Scientist Develops Algorithm That Can Predict Driving Error". Retrieved 23 May 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Nate Foster and Ashutosh Saxena won NSF Career Awards | Department of Computer Science". prod.cs.cornell.edu. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ↑ "Smithsonian names Saxena an 'innovator to watch' | Cornell Chronicle". news.cornell.edu. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ↑ "STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ↑ "Make3D: Depth Perception from a Single Still Image" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ↑ Newcomb, Doug. "New Technology May Prevent Accidents By Reading Drivers' Body Language". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
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