Vijay Krishnan

Vijay Krishnan

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Founder & CTO
Palo Alto, California, United States

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  • turing
    Founder & CTO
    turing
    Apr 2018 - Current (8 years 5 months)
    Turing.com enables foundation model companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, and many others to improve their capabilities in areas such as reasoning, coding, function calling, multimodality, factuality, safety, frontier STEM knowledge and more through expert human data for Evals, SFT, RLHF, and RL Gyms with realistic human expert generated scenarios and auto-verifiers. Turing also helps large enterprises like Pepsi, Disney, and J&J strategize and execute various AI solutions to create outsized business value. Turing achieves both these through its talent pool of over 3 million software developers, data scientists, and other knowledge workers spanning 100+ countries, all automatically vetted through 100+ tests of s
  • Foundation Capital
    Entrepreneur In Residence
    Foundation Capital
    Nov 2017 - Mar 2018 (5 months)
    Working on our next startup. Stay tuned. :)
  • Revcontent
    Senior Vice President of Data Science
    Revcontent
    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 (1 year)
    Revcontent is among the largest native advertising content recommendation networks in the world, reaching 1.5 Billion users monthly. Its publishers include Forbes, Newsweek, Atlantic, Reuters, IBN. • Joined Revcontent after Revcontent’s acquisition of my startup, Rover. TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/revcontent-acquires-rover/ Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2017/02/24/revcontent-to-conquer-the-content-discovery-market-through-rover-acquisition/#3cf476ca10fe • Lead efforts to integrate Rover’s Machine Learning based personalized content recommendation technology with Revcontent’s systems for (a) CTR Prediction and eCPM maximization (b) Improving ad quality (c) offering advertisers audience interest targe
  • Flipora
    Founder & CTO
    Flipora
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2014 (3 years)
    Flipora is a machine learning based web app that recommends content tailored specifically to your interests. Flipora grew to about 40 million registered users. We rebranded Flipora to Rover when we launched our mobile apps in 2015. Flipora was named by Forbes in their Top 5 Apps for Content Discovery alongside FlipBoard, Prismatic, Nuzzel & Pinterest (source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnrampton/2015/01/27/five-new-apps-challenging-facebook-and-twitter-for-content-discovery/)
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    Founder and CTO
    Rover Acquired by Revcontent
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2016 (9 years)
    Rover (http://www.roverapp.com) is a personalized content recommendation technology company that I co-founded. Rover helps people discover content they love, that they never knew existed from a wide variety of over 15,000 topics. The recommendation engine uses machine learning to learn a user's fine grained interests through content a user engages with while being respectful of a user's need for privacy. Rover also connects you to other people who are influential in topics you care about and helps you discover other people with similar interests. Rover was acquired in Feb 2017 by Revcontent which is one of the largest and fastest growing content recommendation networks in the world. Some nice press coverage about the acquisition. Te
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    Founder & Co-CEO
    Infoaxe
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2011 (4 years)
    Infoaxe was a Web History Search Engine that lets you automatically get back to content browsed in the past without the hassle of bookmarking. We raised seed funding of $3.9 Million from multiple prominent Angels and Silicon valley VCs who backed companies like Skype, Baidu, Hotmail, Tesla, SpaceX, Twilio, Twitter etc. Infoaxe reached 7 Million users on the Web with it's browser addons for Firefox, IE & Chrome. http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/infoaxe-records-your-browsing-sessions-lets-you-search-your-web-history/ We also launched a real-time search engine in 2009/2010, which exploited anonymized aggregate web browsing history data of all our web history browser add-on users to quickly identify fresh and popular content that more
  • Yahoo
    Machine Learning Scientist
    Yahoo
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 (2 years)
    • Invented a new fast, efficient, sparse multiclass Support Vector Machine. • Raised categorization accuracy from about 12% to 90% on a taxonomy with many thousands of categories. • 10x faster training and prediction, 500x more compact models with no accuracy loss.
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  • Stanford University
    Master of Science (M.S, Computer Science
    Stanford University
    Jan 2005 - Dec 2007 (3 years)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    M.Tech, Computer Science
    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    Jan 2004 - Dec 2005 (2 years)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2005 (6 years)
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    Comparison of Automated and Human Assignment of MeSH Terms on Publicly-Available Molecular Datasets
    Winner of the Distinguished Paper award in the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics San Francisco CA Also published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics by Elsevier publishers
    Jan 2011
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    Text search enhanced with types and entities
    Text Mining Theory Application and Visualization Srivastava and Sahami eds
    Jan 2008
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    Web Spam Detection with Anti-Trust Rank
    AIRWeb the ACM SIGIR Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web
    Aug 2006
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    An Effective Two-Stage Model for Exploiting Non-Local Dependencies in Named Entity Recognition.
    In COLINGACL Sydney Australia
    Jul 2006
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    Enhanced Answer Type Inference from Questions using Sequential Models
    HLTEMNLP Vancouver BC Canada
    Oct 2005
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    Shortcomings of Latent Models in Supervised Settings
    ACM SIGIR Salvador Brazil
    Aug 2005
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    On Addressing Efficiency Concerns in Privacy-Preserving Mining
    th Intl Conf on Database Systems for Advanced Applications DASFAA Jeju Island Korea
    Mar 2004
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