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    Sam Bhattacharyya

    Sam Bhattacharyya

    I lead the AI Media processing team at Hopin. Formerly CEO/co-founder of Vectorly (sold to Hopin). US Patent Holder, Fluent in Mandarin and Spanish

    Software Engineer San Francisco Bay Area Columbia University '10
    sambhattacharyya.com
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    Experience
    Hopin
    Hopin
    Senior Engineering Manager 2021 - Present (almost 5 years)
    I lead the AI Media processing team at Hopin, building features like AI Upscaling and Background Noise-filtering for Hopin's suite of video products.
    Vectorly (acquired by Hopin)
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    Vectorly (acquired by Hopin)
    CEO 2016 - 2021 (over 5 years)
    At Vectorly we built an SDK for developers to deploy AI models (e.g. segmentation, upscaling) into WebRTC and video streaming applications, sold to Hopin.
    Founder
     
    Employee
    Vectorly (acquired by Hopin), Hopin
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
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    Attorney
     
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    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    mSchool
    e-learning app for students in West Africa
    CEO, Backend Developer, Java, Android Studio, Xml, Kotlin, Node.js · I built the initial version, and when we brought on … · More href="https://wellfound.com/u/elvis" class="at_mention_link" target="_blank" title="elvis" data-mention="true" data-type="User" data-id="521198" data-slug_id="1063873" data-name="elvis">@elvis Chidera onto the project, I managed the backend for the app

    Leveraging dot Learn's data-light video-vectorization technology, mSchool provides a Khan-Academy like library of videos, as well as practice exams and subject-specific study features to help students in West Africa study for regional university entrance exams such as the WASSCE, or the JAMB.
    Tunde Alawode
    Elvis Chidera
    With Elvis Chidera, Tunde Alawode
    Algorithms for autonomous robotic surgery
    PhD research
    PhD Student, Matlab, Matlab Simulink · Developed an initial framework for robots to map and characterize movement constraints in flexible, and unknown… · More environments - with the application of enabling robots to identify objects and self-localize while performing surgical operations in the human body using only haptic feedback.

    I built it
    Background Segmentation
    Virtual Background SDK
    Building a more efficient Background Segmentation model than Google
    Savant Krishna S
    With Savant Krishna S
    AI Upscaling SDK
    Real-time AI Upscaling in the browser
    Saurabh Nandwana
    Savant Krishna S
    With Savant Krishna S, Saurabh Nandwana
    Video Vectorization
    Video Compression Technology
    We present a new kind of video transcoding called "video vectorization", which transcodes video to a vector-graphics format and leverages open and existing s...
    Avijit Kundal
    Savant Krishna S
    With Savant Krishna S, Avijit Kundal
     
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    About
    Achievements

    As CEO of Vectorly:
    - Invented our Core technology
    - Obtained 1 fully issued US Patent
    - Raised angel funding from the CTO of Hulu, and Amazon's head of video compression

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Mandarin Chinese Spanish language
    Locations
    San Francisco
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    The WHO method

    What's your favorite non-business book?

    Guns, Germs and Steel

    If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

    What I'm doing right now, just faster

    What words of advice would you give your younger self?

    Learn to code earlier

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