Naren Chittar

I love talking to people in new industries and identifying problems that AI & ML might help solve. In that quest, I joined JPMorgan to help start its new AI & ML group in Silicon Valley. Prior to that I founded Minhash, an NLP startup, that was acquired by Salesforce in 2015, where I then worked for 3 years to co create their product for Service Einstein Chatbots. Prior to that at eBay's, I co-created their first large scale similar items recommendation engine and image search technology. I also built a new applied research group within their Search team. My journey into machine learning began in 2001 at Promptu, the company that invented the voice remote for TVs. There I built their core server based distributed speech recognition engine architecture. I have several patents granted in the areas of recommendation systems, image search, image quality and speech recognition. I have published numerous papers, served on program committees (WWW 2012) and talked at top tier conferences and events. I am a co instructor for the Stanford CS520 Knowledge Graphs course. I got my bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.