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    Freedom Preetham

    Freedom Preetham

    Serial Entrepreneur & Sr Executive in AI Research for last 25+ yrs. Founder of Kena.Ai.

    CEO San Francisco Dayananda Sagar Colle...
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    Kena.ai
    Kena.ai
    Founder, CEO 2019 - Present (about 7 years)
    - Round up a co-founding team of Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, AI/ML Experts.
    - Build MVP
    - Make a significant impact in helping people learn music and unleash... more their full creative potential
    - Raise investments to launch Kena.ai
    Course Hero
    Course Hero
    VP Artificial Intelligence Group & Machine Learning Engineering 2018 - 2019 (over 1 year)
    Built AI Group from the ground up in a year with a current team strength of 26 ML Engineers and Data Scientists across 3 different teams.
    ● Built Semantic Search Engine,... more Document Analysis, Fraud, LTV Models, Bayesian Regression Models, Time Series Forecasting, Incentive Platforms, Value Chain Analysis, Asset Tagging
    ● Built a corpus of 100million Q&A through Document Analysis, NLP and Deep Learning as a foundational building block of Semantic Knowledge Graph contributing 30% to topline revenues.
    InMobi
    InMobi
    VP, Artificial Intelligence 2016 - 2018 (about 2 years)
    Establish Deep Learning and Data Pipelines to manage daily inflow of 6B+ ad requests, 2 terabytes of textual data, and 15K images daily across geography.
    Vision computing... more using Convolutional Neural Nets and Hybrid Prediction models for Image based forecasting and response predictions for large scale data.
    Audience cohorts, look-alike modeling, brand affinity and location based indexing for highly sparse and dynamic data clusters.
    VP Products Sciences 2012 - 2016 (about 4 years)
    Hired and trained for global product and platform build out.
    Built mobile advertising platform from ground up scaling it to a multi-million dollar business in 4 years;... more Improved revenues in Brand and Commerce product lines making up 40% of multi-million dollar book value.
    Ideate, develop and adopt 5 brand products and 3 commerce products with 10-15 releases annually for global markets for fortune 100 companies in the mobile advertising space.
    Quantama
    Quantama
    Founder, Chief Scientist 2009 - 2012 (almost 3 years)
    Hands-on with core location based search engine algorithms and data-sciences.
    Built the technology stack for hyper local recommendation from ground-up.
    Accessed market... more potential for the solution to establish a new market category in India; Built 3 iterations for RFID based solution to validate proximity marketing, Bluetooth solution to overcome fiscal constraints, and cell tower trilateration enabling location sensing on non-GPS phones and hyperlocal search.
    Bytedge
    Bytedge
    CEO 2007 - 2009 (over 1 year)
    Built Cloud based retail analytics platform.
    Improve profitability with operating margin of 42% by establishing boutique technology services and product engineering outsourcing.
    Enabled... more a Retail COE to focus on building a POS based on cloud computing and SaaS.
    Spearheaded 3 major Retail consulting and integration programs for a large Indian retail conglomerate of 7 different retail formats.
    Delivered 3 products in a span of 1 year for 3 customers in Social Media, Healthcare and Retail space.
    Cisco (previously newScale - acquired)
    Cisco (previously newScale - acquired)
    Director, Technology 2005 - 2007 (over 2 years)
    Product delivery management of $2M in quarterly revenue and $250K in monthly support.
    Coordinate processes across 3 core engineering tracks: Customer Acceptance, Product... more Innovation, Product Development.
    Profit mentoring through improved delivery processes and product architecture roadmap management; Burn rate control through budget validation and assignments.
    Handle product line rationalization, technology portfolio management and program management.
    Centrata
    Centrata
    Principal Architect 2004 - 2005 (about 1 year)
    End-to-end technology and engineering responsibility to build the Centrata enterprise provisioning platform.
    Responsible for the product and architecture outcomes.
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    Quantama, Kena.ai
    Employee
    InMobi, Centrata, Cisco (previously newScale - acquired), Bytedge, Course Hero
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    Dynamic Senior Executive in Machine Learning and AI. 25+ years experience in the software industry within computational linguistics, vision computing, ad-tech, commerce exchanges, retail demand chain solutions, and cloud based analytics domains. Published author with extensive experience providing strategic, technology and operational leadership.

    Specialties in building machine intelligence around NLP, Active Learning, Sequence to Sequence Models, Attention based models, Deep Q Networks, Reinforcement Learning models, Bayesian statistical models, response prediction, classification, bids, yield optimization, margin management, auction pricing, portfolio management, recommendation engines, audience cohorts, engagement based optimizations. Vision computing: multi-object detection, image captioning, object localization, semantic segmentation.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Python Data Science Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Machine Intelligence Statistics Deep Learning
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area
     
    Q&A
    What words of advice would you give your younger self?

    Learn to understand and decipher problems more intimately. Get to the crux of the pain and solve for what matters the most. Simplify.

    What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

    Taught myself to play lead guitar (I am a metalhead)

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