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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Computer space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Justin J. Moses
CTO of Synthetix
Justin is a software engineer from Australia, having moved to NYC back in 2010. He’s been working as a software engineer since the Dotcom days, most recently as Director of Engineering at MongoDB before joining Synthetix as CTO full time in 2018.
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About Synthetix: A cryptoasset-backed network that enables the creation of on-chain synthetic assets.
Krishnendu Chaudhury
Co-Founder and CTO of Drishti
Technology leader (deep learning, computer vision), inventor and author. Currently the CTO-cofounder of Drishti Technologies Palo Alto, which applies AI to manufacturing. Author of the book “Mathematics and Architectures of Deep Learning”, Manning Publications, New York. Several dozens of patents and publications in leading journals and conferences of the world.
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About Drishti: Drishti is a provider of AI-powered video analytics technology that gives visibility and insights for manual assembly line improvement.
Jieyi Long
Founding Member, CTO of Theta Labs
Jieyi Long co-founded SLIVER.tv, the next-generation eSports entertainment platform that live-stream top eSports games in fully immersive, 360° cinematic VR video.Its cutting edge, patented technology immerses the audience inside the 3D game world, viewing their favorite players and matches in an exciting new way never seen before. Prior to SLIVER.tv, Jieyi also co-founded MadSkill Game Studios, developing a real-time massive multiplayer game engine for mobile platforms. He received a B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Peking University in Beijing, China. He also received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL where he conducted research in mathematical modeling and algorithms to optimize large scale electronics systems. Many of which are finding their way into SLIVER.tv’s platform.
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About Theta Labs, THETA.tv: The leading decentralized video delivery network powered by users and a native blockchain
Bo Zhu
CTO of BlinkAI
Bo Zhu’s current work centers on the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to accelerate high-fidelity image acquisition and reconstruction for imaging modalities across the physical and life sciences. Bo is a cofounder of BlinkAI, and a postdoctoral research fellow in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and in Physics at Harvard University, based at the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT where his research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) introduced the fusion of Doppler ultrasound and acoustic features for multimodal speech recognition, producing robust performance in noisy environments. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, where his graduate research focused on the development of switchable MRI contrast for molecular imaging to significantly boost imaging sensitivity of injectable contrast agents. As a postdoctoral research fellow, Bo proposed AUTOMAP (Nature 2018), which rethinks the conventional image reconstruction signal processing pipeline with a fully automated deep learning approach, resulting in significantly improved images even with rapidly scanned low-quality raw data, and sets up a flexible computational foundation for accelerating the future development of novel image acquisition strategies and unconventional hardware designs.
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About BlinkAI: BlinkAI designs and develops artificial intelligence based application software to extract sensor information.
Praveen Vishakantaiah
Senior Vice President and CTO, Infrastructure Solutions Group of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Frank Molsberry
Technologist – Office of the CTO of Dell
Frank Molsberry is Technologist – Office of the CTO at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Dave Brace
CTO of Detective
Dave Brace is Director of Technology at Buzz Referrals.
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About Buzz Digital (formerly Buzz Referrals), Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Dave Brace
CTO of Detective
Dave Brace is Director of Technology at Buzz Referrals.
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About Buzz Digital (formerly Buzz Referrals), Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Louis Sivillo
Co-Founder and CTO of RemoteHQ
Louis Sivillo is the co-founder and CTO of RemoteHQ.
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About RemoteHQ: RemoteHQ enables businesses to create interactive meeting rooms where their employees can use video conferencing to communicate.
Tray Lewin
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of Aikon
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About Aikon: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Vikesh Khanna
CTO & Co-founder of Ambient.ai
CTO & co-founder
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Daniel Rasmuson
Co-founder & CTO of Labelbox
Dan Rasmuson is the Co-Founder and CTO of Labelbox, the leading training data management software company that is accelerating global access to artificial intelligence. He was previously an Engineering Manager at DroneDeploy where he started and grew their platform to more than 100 integrations. These integrations are now providing access to machine learning for aerial imagery all of the world. Dan is a technologist recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 and a youth national chess and ultimate frisbee champion.
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Dan Dubiner
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of ScaleHub AG
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About ScaleHub AG: AI & HI for better data – at infinite scale, Managed Service, CrowdSourcing/Collective Intelligence Services for Data Entry & Data Labeling
Mina Rezk
Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer of Aeva
Mina Rezk is a Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer of Aeva.
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About Aeva: Aeva develops a sensing and perception paradigm for autonomous machines.
Hakan Gultekin
Co-Founder and CTO of Chooch AI
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Yash Nelapati
Co-founder and CTO of MakersPlace
Yash Nelapati is the co-founder and CTO at MakersPlace.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Anurag Kanungo
Co-Founder and CTO of Voxel
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About Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Alex Plugaru
Co-Founder & CTO of Gorgias
Alex Plugaru is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gorgias.
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About Gorgias: Gorgias is a multi-channel helpdesk integrated for online and e-commerce merchants.
David Holz
Co-Founder & CTO of Leap Motion
David Holz is the CTO & co-founder of Leap Motion. Prior to founding the company, David contracted for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Institute. He studied Applied Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ultimately leaving his PhD program to co-found Leap Motion in 2010.
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About Leap Motion: Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms.
Cory Tucker
CTO & Co-Founder of Windfall
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About Windfall: Windfall Data is on a mission to help organizations make better informed data-driven decisions.
Jerry Waldorf
CTO of Aquera
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About Aquera: Aquera offers integration connectivity for the identity access and governance marketplaces.
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Nicolas Borensztein
Founder & CTO of CrowdAI
Founder at CrowdAI
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Steve May
CTO of Pixar Animation Studios
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About Pixar Animation Studios: Pixar Animation Studios is a group charged with developing state-of-the-art computer technology for the film industry.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Cadir Lee
President & CTO of Ohmconnect
Cadir spent five years as CTO of Zynga, where he was responsible for the development and innovation of Zynga’s technology platforms, information technology, large-scale network operations, security, analytics, developer tools, and technology M&A. He managed teams, technology and infrastructure in over 30 offices around the world as Zynga grew from under 100 people to over 3000 and transitioned from a private to public company. In particular, Cadir was the original architect of Zynga’s big data analytics platform and managed the development and implementation of one of the world’s largest private cloud infrastructures. He also helped guide Zynga’s mobile business from zero presence to a top 10 IOS and Android game publisher. Most recently, Cadir has been exploring new business ideas in the area of sustainable energy as the founder of Steeltrap LLC. Prior to Zynga, he founded, took public, and spent eleven years as the CTO of Support.com, an online technology support company that deployed software to over 50 million PCs and devices. Cadir graduated from Stanford University, is on the board of NCWIT, and advises multiple startups in the San Francisco area including Opower and Choose Energy.
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About Ohmconnect: Our electricity grid operates under the antiquated assumption that the only thing that can change is turning on and off power plants.
Tianqi Chen
Co-Founder and CTO of OctoML
Tianqi holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he was a member of ACM Class, now part of Zhiyuan College in SJTU. He did his master’s degree at Changhai Jiao Tong University in China on Apex Data and Knowledge Management before joining the University of Washington as a PhD. He has had several prestigious internships and has been a visiting scholar including: Google on the Brain Team, at Graphlab authoring the boosted tree and neural net toolkit, at Microsoft Research Asia in the Machine Learning Group, and the Digital Enterprise Institute in Galway Ireland. What really excites Tianqi is what processes and goals can be enabled when we bring advanced learning techniques and systems together. He pushes the envelope on deep learning, knowledge transfer and lifelong learning. His PhD is supported by a Google PhD Fellowship.
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About OctoML: OctoML offers an acceleration platform that helps engineering teams deploy machine learning models on any hardware.
Christopher Ciabarra
CTO and Co Founder of Athena Security
Co-founder, CTO at Athena Security
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About : Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Ankit Kumar
Co-founder & CTO of Ubiquity6
Ankit Kumar is the co-founder and CTO of Ubiquity6, a platform built to make it easy for people around the world to build and share augmented reality experiences in the spaces they care about. Ankit’s background is in deep learning, computer vision, and high scale distributed systems, and he received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Stanford University.
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About Technetto, Ubiquity6: Ubiquity6 uses computer vision to enable massively multiplayer, persistent AR experiences on top of the physical world.
Yaacov Apelbaum
CTO and Founder of XRVision Pte. Ltd.
Yaacov Apelbaum is a CTO and Founder of XRVision.
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About XRVision Pte. Ltd.: AI-based Enterprise-grade Video Content Analytics (VCA) software
Qirong Ho
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Petuum
Qirong Ho is vice president of technology at Petuum, Inc., an adjunct assistant professor at the Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, and a former principal investigator at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research. Qirong’s research focuses on distributed cluster software systems for machine learning at big data and big model scales, with a view toward theoretical correctness and performance guarantees, as well as practical needs like robustness, programmability, and usability. Qirong also works on statistical models for large-scale network analysis and social media, including latent space models for visualization, community detection, user personalization, and interest prediction. He is a recipient of the Singapore A*STAR National Science Search Undergraduate and PhD fellowships and the KDD 2015 Doctoral Dissertation Award (runner up).
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About Petuum, Singapore Management University: Petuum, Inc. is building a platform that serves the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence
Rafael Schloming
CTO & Chief Architect of Ambassador Labs
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About Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Sek Chai
Co-Founder and CTO of Latent AI
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About Latent AI: Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI.
Luis Dussan
Founder, CTO and President of AEye
Luis Dussan is a co-founder and CEO of AEye.
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Julie Iskow
SVP, Chief Technology Officer of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Yan Li
Co-founder & CTO of WeRide
Previously worked at Facebook and Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About WeRide: WeRide is a leading Level 4 autonomous driving company to provide safer and more efficient mobility service and solution.
Philip Smolen
Co-Founder, CTO of Trade Ideas
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About Trade Ideas: Trade Ideas provides idea generation technology and real-time risk management analytics to investors.
Simanta Gautam
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Synapse Technology Corporation
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About Synapse Technology Corporation: Synapse uses proprietary deep learning and computer vision systems to modernize the security and defense visual analysis field.
Mitchell Nahmias
Co-founder and CTO of Luminous Computing
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About Luminous Computing: Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry.
Justin Baker
Founder & CTO of Soar
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About Soar: Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
Dan Ogles
CTO of Proletariat
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
Joe Mukai
CTO / Co-founder of Proletariat
Joe Mukai joined Proletariat as Director of Engineering / Co-founder in 2013.
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
James Penney
Chief Technology Officer of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Adam Rowell
Cofounder & CTO of Lucid
Stanford PhD and entrepreneur converting human vision to computer vision.Adam develops image processing and 3D graphics in any language onto any device. After his previous startup, he worked on building software for military vision and radar systems under highest pressure and conditions.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
Dylan Rhodes
Co Founder – CTO of Knowhere
Dylan Rhodes joined Knowhere as Co-Founder & CTO in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Anand Kashyap
CTO of Fortanix
Anand is the co-founder and CTO at Fortanix, and leads engineering and product development. He also leads the customer acquisition and customer success process at Fortanix, working closely with customers and partners in enabling technical sales. Previously, Anand worked at VMware through the acquisition of Arkin. He developed the core engine for netflow analysis in VMware NSX environments, which is now part of the VMware vRealize Network Insight product. Before VMware, he worked for several years as a lead researcher at the Symantec Research Labs. At Symantec, he developed foundational technologies used in several products, such as the Norton Mobile Security suite, Norton Core Router, Symantec Risk Insight, and Symantec Deepsight Intellgence. He filed over 25 patents and presented in conferences such as Financial Cryptography and BlackHat. Anand holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He has published 20 papers in top conferences and journals and his work has received over 1100 citations.
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About Fortanix: Fortanix solves cloud security and privacy using Runtime Encryption(R) technology build upon Intel SGX.
Jungsang Kim
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of IonQ
Jungsang Kim is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of IonQ Inc.
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About Duke University, IonQ: IONQ develops general-purpose quantum information processors to solve the world’s complex problems.
Fredrik Ryden
Chief Technology Officer of Olis Robotics
Ryden has unique expertise in haptic rendering, virtual fixtures, and control theory. To date, he has authored several papers and presented them at national conferences. He is also an inventor on one pending, and five provisional patent applications related to rendering of haptic feedback, virtual fixtures and semi-autonomous teleoperation. Recipient of the Outstanding Research Award by the UW Department of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Ryden did his Ph.D. thesis on telerobotics and haptic feedback. He is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering.
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About Olis Robotics: Olis Robotics gives operators the ability to intuitively control complex robotic systems.
Julie Cullivan
CTO & CPO of ForeScout Technologies
As Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Information Officer, Julie brings over 25 years of systems and programs experience in enterprise high tech companies to FireEye. Most recently she was Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing Operations at Autodesk, where she led the global rollout of new CRM, eLearning, and lead management systems, and evaluated new technologies and tools to improve productivity and optimize resources. Prior to Autodesk, Julie was senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations at McAfee, where she led the global sales and channel operations functions to drive go-to market strategies, best practices, systems, process, and productivity across five geographical theatres. Julie has also held executive roles at EMC, Asera, and Oracle. She received a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Yue Li
CTO of MemVerge
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About MemVerge: MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure system, built with proprietary DMO technology.
Mike Danjczek
Chief Technology Officer of SPARQ
Mike Danjczek is the Chief Technology Officer at SPARQ Global and Engineering Manager at Global Technical Systems. He is a former Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
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About SPARQ: SPARQ is a computer security service company specializing in building and integrating hardware systems and providing managed services.
Rajan Goyal
CTO of Fungible
Rajan Goyal is the chief technology officer of Fungible.
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About Fungible: Fungible creates hardware and software platforms for data centers.
Yudong Cao
CTO of Zapata Computing
Yudong Cao obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2016 from Purdue University. His thesis was awarded 2016 Chorafas Award in Computer Science and Informatics. From late 2016 till present he serves as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, working with Alan Aspuru-Guzik on quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry and quantum machine learning. Recently, with other Harvard scientists he co-founded a Boston startup Zapata Computing focusing on quantum computing software development.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zapata Computing: Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use.
Vinodraj Kuppusamy
Chief Technology Officer of Sanovi Technologies
Vinod is the Director of Product Engineering at Sanovi and brings with him over 18 years of experience in software product development, with expertise in database recovery and administration. Before joining Sanovi, he led and developed enterprise software products in the US and also in India. As Sanovi’s Director of Product Engineering, Vinod is responsible for the development and delivery of Sanovi DRM. Prior to Sanovi, Vinod has worked in Telcordia Technologies, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the UB Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University.
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About Sanovi Technologies: Sanovi is a business continuity and IT recovery software company enabling continuity for enterprises and cloud service providers.
David Wyatt
CTO of PixelDisplay, Inc.
Built first company 1993 in Taiwan, learning Mandarin on the fly, developing computer hardware/software, before coming to the US through an Intel acquisition. Track record for creating valuable IP (around 200 patents filed), leading teams delivering platform-wide innovations, aligning co-travellers and tackling the ecosystem challenges to successfully launch industry leading products that transform sectors. Including those shipped by Apple, Asus, DELL, HP, Intel, Lenovo, NVIDIA, Sharp, Sony, and more. David has a passion for addressing challenging problems from a fresh perspective, with cross domain solutions, building cross-functional/cross-industry collaborations, to make it happen. But finds the challenge of mapping an idea, into a breathtaking new business model, can be when innovation is most disruptive. Specialties: IoT, Display Technologies (Color, HDR, LCD, OLED, MicroLED TCON, Panel), Security & Cryptography, FinTech & Payments, Computer Architecture (CPU, GPU, Memory & IO), Wireless/NFC, Fuzzy & Convolution Neural Net AI/ML and more.
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About PixelDisplay, Inc.: Imagine light in all colors, as bright and dark as the real world. Imagine Mobile HDR, IoT, AR/VR display devices, running days not hours.
Daniel Nurmi
CTO and Co-Founder of Anchore
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About Anchore: Anchore helps organizations implement secure container-based workflows without compromising velocity.
Charles George
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Research & Development of AOD Software
Charles George serves AOD Software as the CTO and VP of Research & Development, where he steers the overall technology direction and innovation, as well as provide support and guidance for the application development processes. AOD Software’s complete solution enables long term care communities to focus on what really benefits the resident. Charles has more than 20 years of software engineering experience and more than 15 years of healthcare industry experience; he is a leader in the LTPAC clinical informatics industry and an active Board Member of NASL; he also participates in many industry organizations including CCHIT, CAST, HIMSS, AHIMA and LeadingAge. Charles has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Kansas University.
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About AOD Software: A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based portfolio company of Primus Capital.
Dave Fick
Co-Founder and CTO of Mythic
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About Mythic: Mythic is an inference processor company that deploys artificial intelligence in any device.
Mark Wade
President, CTO, and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs
Mark Wade is the Ayar Labs’ President, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Founder.
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About Ayar Labs: Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
Joshua Richau
CTO of Overlay
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About Overlay: Precision AR – Augmented reality outdoors over large distances and long spans of time at centimeter-level accuracy.
Satwik Seshasai
Chief Technology Officer of Aurea Software
Satwik Seshasai is the Chief Technology Officer of Clearco. He has a doctor’s degree in Philosophy Engineering Systems , Technology, Management, and Policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Aurea Software: Aurea helps global businesses accelerate digital transformation through unlimited access to the world’s first business software library.
David Wu
CTO, of Riverbed Technology
David Wu is Chief Technology Officer at Riverbed Technology and a member of Riverbed’s founding team. In his tenure with the company, Mr. Wu has held several positions, including Vice President, Software Development and Senior Vice President, Research & Development. Prior to joining Riverbed in January 2003, Mr. Wu served as Senior Engineering Manager at Inktomi Corp., joining the company following the acquisition of FastFoward Networks in October 2000. He has 10 patents issued and 33 pending patents relating to networking, programming languages, and databases. Mr. Wu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Riverbed Technology: Riverbed Technology is a solution provider for fundamental problems associated with IT performance across wide area networks.
Brad Wood
Deputy Chief Technology Officer of Riverbed Technology
Brad Wood is Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Riverbed Technology. He is responsible for Application Performance strategy around optimization and SD-WAN technologies working directly with the CTO. He has an extensive background in protocol analysis and Riverbed’s integration with alliance partners such as Microsoft. Brad started as a Sales Engineer at Riverbed and has worked in the Global Consulting Engineering Team and Advanced Technology Group. Wood brings 23 years of enterprise ecosystems engineering experience with him with senior leadership roles across multiple sectors.
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About Riverbed Technology: Riverbed Technology is a solution provider for fundamental problems associated with IT performance across wide area networks.
Alexander Luksidadi
CTO, Co-Founder of Rose Rocket
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About 3Sixty Labs, Rose Rocket: Rose Rocket is ERP software for trucking companies.
Stephan Chenette
Co-Founder and CTO of AttackIQ
Stephan Chenette is the Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of AttackIQ, responsible for technology strategy and vision. Stephan launched AttackIQ in 2013 as the first open platform in the emerging market of Continuous Security Validation and has held several roles and responsibilities during that time. Prior to establishing AttackIQ, Stephan held management and lead positions in research and development at companies like IOActive, Websense, SAIC and eEye Digital Security. Stephan is a frequent speaker on risk, threats, metrics, security offense and defense, and other topics.
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About AttackIQ: AttackIQ is a security optimization platform that enables a seamless threat-informed defense across their security organizations.
Sasha Caskey
CTO & Co-Founder of Kasisto
Sasha is the CTO & Co-Founder at Kasisto, creators of KAI Banking, the leading conversational AI platform for the finance industry. Kasisto counts DBS Bank, JP Morgan, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, TD Bank, and Wells Fargo among its customers as well as other leading financial institutions who are changing the face of banking with KAI to create engaging consumer experiences and drive business results. As CTO, Sasha drove the architectural direction and software development of the KAI platform since it spun out from SRI International. He leads the design and development of integrating KAI’s industry-agnostic, full stack AI technologies – Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, AI Reasoning, Natural Language Generation – with prepackaged banking knowledge. He created an API-centric architecture that is optimized for performance, scalability, security and compliance. He also leads the design of KAI’s combination hypothesis approach which enables the platform to take advantage of the latest AI technologies as they become available. Sasha has spent his entire career passionately teaching computers to communicate with humans. As a Software Leader and Engineer, Sasha has over 15 years of experience inventing and transitioning breakthrough technology into applications and products. Before founding Kasisto, he was a member of the IBM TJ Watson research team responsible for real-time translation technology and conversational architecture for cars and mobile devices. Sasha’s passion for conversational systems started at The MITRE corporation, soon after he joined his first startup Speechworks Intl. He has a B.A. from Brandeis University and M.A. from Columbia University.
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About Kasisto, Kasisto: Kasisto’s enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers.
Thomas Hazel
Founder, CTO, and Chief Scientist of ChaosSearch
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About ChaosSearch: ChaosSearch develops a data platform designed for scalable log analytics.
Yair Adato
Co-Founder and CTO of Bria
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About Bria, Trax: Bria is a Computer Software company.
John Bonds
Co-Founder and CTO of Aptexx
John is a Co-Founder, Principal, and Chief Technology Officer of Aptexx. Prior to founding Aptexx, he was the principal consultant for his consulting firm, Bonds Consulting, Inc., which primarily served public and private real estate firms. Since co-founding Aptexx in 2012, he has led a ground-up rebuild and consolidation of its software and infrastructure. John is actively involved in the development, maintenance, and day-to-day operations of the Company.
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About Aptexx: Aptexx is a mobile payment and messaging service that empowers property managers and residents with rental payments.
Cambron Carter
Co-founder & CTO of Pearl
Cambron Carter is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pearl. He is a former Director of Engineering of Computer Vision, Engineering Manager, and Image Scientist at GumGum. Mr. Carter received a master of engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a bachelor of science in Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville.
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About Pearl: Pearl is a computer vision company focusing on solving challenging problems in the dental industry.
Bradley Falk
Co-Founder & CTO of Strings
Bradley is a Co-founder and CTO at strings.
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About Strings: Strings is an app that provides automated work checks, in-app copy editing, and copy handoff features.
Clay Harter
CTO of Bahwan CyberTek
With over 40 years experience in oil and gas and related software industry, Clay leads BCTs efforts to deliver innovative solutions for oil and gas customers. Prior to joining BCT, Clay was the CTO and a founder of OpenSpirit Corp. ( incorporated in 2000 and later acquired by TIBCO Software). He earned a B.A. degree in Physics and Geology from Amherst College in 1976 and a M.S. degree in Geophysics from Stanford University in 1977. Clay previously worked with the Chevron Corporation where he gained over 21 years of experience in a multitude of positions (U.S and U.K. based) in Exploration and Development Geophysics for operating companies, conducting and managing Geophysical R&D, managing IT, Upstream architecture, and IT strategic planning.
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About Bahwan CyberTek: Bahwan CyberTek (BCT) was established in 1999 and is a provider of digital transformation solutions across industry.
Vasant Ramachandran
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of Daric
Vasant Ramachandran is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Daric.
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About Daric: Daric is a peer-to-peer lending platform providing personal and small business loans.
Lambert Chu
CTO of Point
Lambert Chu is CTO and Co-Founder at EasyEmail. Lambert is a computer scientist from MIT and is now driving the complex design and implementation of EasyEmail’s architecture. Prior to co-founding EasyEmail, Lambert worked on software architecture for Goldman Sachs, Ultimate Software, and Celect, where he set the foundation of their database systems. Lambert has loved throwing balls at people since he was a kid and was a pitcher on the MIT varsity baseball team. He is a huge Yankees fan (deal with it).
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About Point: Point helps the user to easily save snippets of text, templates, and other content, and re-use them effortlessly on any website.
Patrick Brown
CTO of Blyncsy
In the past five years, Patrick has worked with collaborators at Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and National Rehabilitation Hospital, among others, on research studies leveraging big data to improve health care in various clinical areas. Patrick’s passion for innovation and technology makes him an ideal member of the Blyncsy team. Patrick earned his BS in Mathematics from the University of Utah.
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About Blyncsy: Founded in 2014, Blyncsy™ is the big data solution we have all been waiting for
Karuna Ammireddy
Co-Founder & CTO of Pype
As a CTO of Pype Inc, Karuna is responsible for overall product development, operations and technology growth. Karuna brings more than a decade of experience building simple to complex software systems with teams of various sizes . A computer science graduate of University of Florida with an MBA from University of Maryland, Karuna was always an Entrepreneur at heart. While working on software development, he successfully executed few real estate projects as well. With an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion to build a company from ground up, Karuna Co-founded Pype Inc in 2013. In addition to his role as a CTO of Pype, Karuna is an avid runner, swimmer and a field hockey player.
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About Pype: AI & ML platform for Construction Industry. Automating construction processes from Project Planning through Closeout
Sean Adkinson
CTO, Co-Founder of Streem
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About Streem: Making the worlds expertise more accessible.
Diego Besprosvan
Co-Founder / CTO / Chief Architect of Ownera
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About DBES LLC., Ownera: Ownera is an institutional-grade network for digital securities.
John Mollis
CTO & Co-Founder of OnSiteIQ
John Mollis is the Co-Founder and CTO at OnsiteIQ.
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About OnSiteIQ: OnSiteIQ is a computer vision platform for construction risk assessment
Chen-Ping Yu
Co-Founder, CTO of Phiar Technologies
Co-Founder & CEO at Phiar. Extensive cutting-edge research background in artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and cognitive science.
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About Phiar Technologies: Phiar’s Ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine enables vehicles to perceive its surroundings, and powers our first use case in AR Navigation.
Michael Korkin
Founder, CTO of ENTROPIX
Michael Korkin is the Founder, CTO at ENTROPIX
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About ENTROPIX: Advanced Computational Imaging Systems
Vahan Petrosyan
CTO and Co-Founder of SuperAnnotate
Vahan Petrosyan is the CTO and Co-Founder of SuperAnnotate AI.
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About SuperAnnotate: The end-to-end platform to annotate, version, manage, and integrate ground truth data for your AI.
Ken Weiner
CTO of GumGum
Ken Weiner serves as the Chief Technology Officer at GumGum.
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About Bedrock, Forbes Technology Council, GumGum, LA CTO Forum: GumGum is an Artificial Intelligence company that uses machine learning to extract value from digital content.
Ian Lane
Co-Founder, CTO of Capio
Ian Lane is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads the speech and language-processing group at CMU Silicon Valley and performs research in the areas of speech recognition, spoken language understanding and speech interaction. Ian and his group are developing methods to accelerate speech and language technologies using GPUs.
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About Capio, Carnegie Mellon University: Capio is developing an engine for human to machine speech technologies.
Bobby Johnson
CTO & Founder of Scuba Analytics
Instrumental in making Facebook fast and stable. Wrote open source software like Scribe and Haystack.
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About : Scuba is a continuous intelligence platform designed to create a unified customer experience management across all business silos.
Brandon Heller
Co-Founder + CTO of Forward Networks
Brandon received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford. Involved in OpenFlow before it had that name, he served as main editor of the spec for three years, seeing it grow from an academic prototype to a real tool for industry.His more recent projects include energy-efficient data centers (ElasticTree) and flexible network emulation (Mininet).
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About Forward Networks: Forward Networks delivers an innovative platform that provides network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling.
Barbara Rosario
Co-Founder and CTO of Vyrill
Barbara Rosario is the Co-Founder and CTO at Vyrill.
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About Vyrill: Vyrill’s AI platform offers user generated video – discovery, intelligence, licensing, and content marketing tools for social commerce.
Ido Safruti
CTO & Co-Founder of PerimeterX
Ido Safruti was formerly a part of a secretive Israeli military program called Talpiot. He was later recruited by another ex-Talpiot member, [Arik Czerniak](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/arik-czerniak), to become the General Manager of Metacafe Israel, leading the among other things Engineering and Technical Operations.
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About Akamai Technologies, Cotendo, PerimeterX: PerimeterX offers a web security service, protecting web sites from modern security threats.
Sudhir Jangir
Founder & CTO of Roost AI
Entrepreneur, Technology, Microservices
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About InfoObjects, Roost AI: Automated Change Validation Platform for Containerized Applications
Todd Kesselman
Founder & CTO of Taloflow
Todd Kesselman is Partner at PICO Venture Partners
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About PICO Venture Partners, Precision Capital Advisors, Taloflow: Find the best cloud and dev tools for your use case
Yan Ke
Founder and CTO of Clobotics
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About Clobotics: Clobotics provides intelligent computer vision solutions for the retail and wind power sectors.
Sushant Hiray
CTO of DeepAffects
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About DeepAffects: The new standard for speech analysis
Keshav Kamble
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Avocado Systems
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About Avocado Systems: Next-generation Agentless Application Security & Monitoring for Enterprise
Larry McNutt
Co-Founder and CTO of Spacee
Larry McNutt is the Co-Founder and CTO at Spacee.
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About Spacee: Changing the way customers shop and enabling business transformation through AI and Computer Vision.
Zonghao Gu
Co-Founder & CTO of Gurobi Optimization
Dr. Zonghao Gu has a B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and an M. Eng. in Industrial Management from Tongji University, Shanghai. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Gu has published several papers on the computational aspects of mathematical programming. He is currently a Technical Editor for Mathematical Programming Computation. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the computational aspects of linear, integer, and quadratic programming, and is particularly well known for his deep understanding of cutting planes and their application to the solution of general mixed-integer programs. Dr. Gu worked from 1995 to 1998 as an optimization software developer for LINDO Systems, Inc., before joining the ILOG CPLEX R&D team in 1998 as a senior software developer and later as a Distinguished Scientist. From 2005 to 2008 he was Project Architect for the CPLEX R&D team and was the lead developer for CPLEX 11. He was responsible for the implementation of the CPLEX QP simplex and MIQP solvers, had primary responsibility for the presolve and cutting plane routines, and made various contributions to the CPLEX LP simplex solver.
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About Gurobi Optimization: Gurobi is in the business of helping companies make better decisions through the use of prescriptive analytics.
Alexander Polyakov
Founder & CTO of ERPScan
Alexander Polyakov is the Founder of ERPScan and President of the EAS-SEC.org project. He has been recognized as an R&D professional and Entrepreneur of the Year. His expertise covers the security of enterprise business-critical software like ERP, CRM, SRM and industry specific solutions developed by enterprise software companies such as SAP and Oracle. He has received several accolades, and published over 100 vulnerabilities. He has authored multiple whitepapers such as annual award winning “SAP Security in Figures” and surveys devoted to information security research in SAP. Alexander has authored a book about Oracle database security and has presented his research on SAP and ERP security at more than 60 conferences and training’s in 20+ countries on all continents. He has also held training’s for the CISOs of Fortune 2000 companies, and for SAP SE itself.
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About ERPScan: SAP Security Monitoring and SAP Threat Intelligence solutions to Identify
Roman Shuf
CTO of SoftWorks
Roman Shuf, CTO – has been working with the SoftWorks AI team for over 11 years. During his tenure he has been instrumental in the development of the company’s entire suite of products. Roman supports partners, existing and prospective clients to overcome technological challenges and finds ways to integrate and adapt to their current and evolving needs. Roman’s expertise in AI and machine learning makes him a clear subject matter expert in driving business process through automation. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Queen’s College.
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About SoftWorks: SoftWorks is an artificial intelligence and machine learning experts that provides reliable, innovative document automation solutions.
Asghar Riahi
Founder & CTO of AtomBeam Technologies
Asghar is a technology innovator, with over 28 years of international experience in IT solutions focusing on cloud storage, virtualization, security, and disaster recovery solutions. He has held senior positions at RedHat, Seagate, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, and UC Berkeley. Asghar holds an MS in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology and served as chairman for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Storage Project from 2013 – 2016.
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About AtomBeam Technologies: AtomBeam’s machine learning solution reduces machine data by 70%+
Paul Birkmeyer
Co-Founder & CTO of Dishcraft Robotics
Paul is the CTO and co-founder of Dishcraft Robotics, a company creating novel robotic hardware and software to improve the quality of life and productivity of kitchen staff in commercial kitchens. Paul was drawn to robots from an early age because of the awe and wonder of watching your creation come to life in the real world and developed a deeper passion for the field when he recognized the empowerment that comes from creating something that can have real, tangible impact for good. In graduate school at UC Berkeley, Paul worked on how to design robots intelligently and wholistically such that the mechanisms, sensors, electronics, and software complement each other to create simple yet robust solutions to specific problems. This design mentality led to the technologies that launched Paul’s first company, Dash Robotics, where he was a co-founder and CTO. Started during his Ph.D. and derived from his research, Dash Robotics focused on making low-cost, build-it-yourself, bio-inspired legged robots available to kids to promote STEM engagement. While moonlighting to help build and grow Dash Robotics, Paul was also a research engineer at SRI Robotics where he contributed to projects including lightweight wearable robotics, autonomous racing motorcycles, and dynamically-walking humanoid robots. Paul also helped push novel manipulator and arm designs at iRobot that are being used in products today. Of all the projects Paul takes on, he tries to keep his focus on making systems that are cutting-edge, yet practical and towards something deployable in a larger market. After all, the real goal of robotics is to make something that can actually be helpful in the world, right? If you want to start a conversation with Paul, offer to talk about robots or technology over a nice cup of coffee.
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About Dishcraft Robotics: Dishcraft is a robotics company focused on solving the labor and sustainability challenges facing foodservice operators.
Paul Makowski
CTO of PolySwarm
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About Narf Industries, PolySwarm: PolySwarm is a threat detection used by security experts to analyze, detect & get intel on malicious files & digital artifacts.
