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Manoj Krishnan
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Co-Founder, CTO
Cupertino, California, United States
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Jobs
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Tech Lead ManagerGoogleJan 2026 - Current (10 months)- Senior Staff SWE / TLM - AI PlatformFaireOct 2024 - Jan 2026 (1 year 4 months)
- Co-FounderStealthFeb 2024 - Nov 2024 (10 months)Enterprise GenAI Saas startup in stealth.
- Staff Software EngineerCoupangJul 2020 - Feb 2024 (3 years 8 months)- Built training and serving infrastructure for xgBoost and DNN models for the Ads org powering O(1000s) of training runs/month on both on-prem and cloud GPU clusters.
- Responsible for keeping training latency low: decreased training times from O(weeks) to O(hours) while simultaneously enabling more complex models.
- Built the company's first ML monitoring and observability platform. - Senior Software EngineerGoogleJul 2013 - Jul 2020 (7 years 1 month)- Founding engineer of GCP's vertex AI: the industry's first code free ML modeling tool (previously known as AutoML)
- Prior to GCP, worked on Google Shopping Ads and launched numerous new ads formats on the Google search results page. - Corporate Research and Development InternQualcommMay 2012 - Aug 2012 (4 months)
- Graduate teaching assistantUniversity of Illinois UrbanaChampaignAug 2011 - May 2013 (1 year 10 months)
- MResearch InternMixed Reality Lab NUSMay 2010 - Jul 2010 (3 months)Developed software and firmware for a ferro-fluid based, liquid tangible user-interface. (Fluid Interfaces)
Education
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- MS, Computer ScienceUniversity of Illinois at UrbanaChampaignJan 2011 - Dec 2013 (3 years)
- B.E, Computer Science and EngineeringAnna University ChennaiJan 2007 - Dec 2011 (5 years)
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- SSummer Research ProjectMay 2012 - Aug 2012 (4 months)Developed a complete real time tracking and visualization framework to track mobile devices on the field and visualize associated communication quality metrics.
- SSynergyJan 2012 - May 2012 (5 months)The combined effect of Moore's law and the failure of Dennard scaling have led to multi-core mobile devices with immense computation capabilities. The biggest limitation of the computation capability for any mobile device is its battery. Mobile cloud computing is used to offload compute intensive tasks that affect a mobile device's battery. Mobile ad-hoc computing can be used as an alternative to mobile cloud computing in cases where cloud access is not available or is inhibitive to application performance, although battery drain remains a critical argument against mobile ad-hoc computing. We present Synergy, a middleware that increases the battery life for a system of mobile devices connected in a peer-to-peer ad-hoc network. Synergy conse
- TTask automation on a PC/MacOct 2011 - Current (15 years 1 month)(3rd place at Yahoo! HackU fest) Automating tasks (like gmail status message, logging in/out of your system etc) on your PC/Mac by tracking the location of the mobile phone.
- SSigEntrySep 2011 - Current (15 years 2 months)Instead of typing in username and password on the tiny mobile screen, just sign on the huge touch screen to authenticate yourself. - Award - Winner at Facebook Hackathon at UIUC' 2011
- PPID Control System for Dynamic Object BalancingSep 2011 - Dec 2011 (4 months)Developed a discrete PID control system that enables a touch-screen surface to balance a rolling object at dynamic set-points on its surface as well as on a slave screen’s surface. Also employed the use of Micro-C/OS-II real-time scheduling to achieve improved performance.
- AAndroid Signature Authentication for Secure SystemsSep 2011( Winner of the Facebook UIUC Hackathon 2011 ) Developed an android application that uses user signatures to implement secure login for mobile internet services.
- LLiquid InterfacesMay 2010 - Jul 2010 (3 months)Developed software components, to track user gestures on a ferromagnetic-fluid based tangible user interface (TUI), and firmware to enable users to sculpt music in 3D by means of direct manipulation of ferrofluid, in combination with sound.
Awards
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- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Spring 2012University of Illinois UrbanaChampaignApr 2013
- SSiebel Scholar Class of 2013Siebel FoundationAug 2012Siebel Scholar, Class of 2013. A $35k award, awarded annually for academic excellence and demonstrated leadership to 85 top students from the world's leading graduate schools.
- Winner, Facebook UIUC Hackathon and Finalist, Facebook International Hackathon.FacebookSep 2011Built a signature based authentication system for Android.
- ACreative Showcase Golden AwardACE ACMNov 2010Creative Showcase Golden Award at the ACE ’10 Conference. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (Taipei,Taiwan, Nov. 17-19, 2010), ACE ’10, ACM.
- TD. George Arthur AwardTrinity College of Music LondonMay 2005Awarded for the highest score in the Grade 8 Digital Keyboard Examination (in state) awarded by the International Examination Board. Trinity College of Music, London.
Publications
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- Synergy: A Middleware for Energy Conservation in Mobile devicesIEEESep 2012
- Liquid Interface: a malleable, transient, direct-touch interfaceACMJul 2011Authors: Jeffrey T. K. V. Koh, Kasun Karunanayaka, Jose Sepulveda, Mili John Tharakan, Manoj Krishnan, Adrian David Cheok We present a new methodology based on ferromagnetic fluids in which the user can have direct interaction (input/output) through a tangible and malleable interface. Liquid Interfaces uses the physical qualities of ferromagnetic fluids in combination with capacitive, multi-touch technology, to produce a 3D, multi-touch interface where actuation, representation, and self-configuration occur through the malleable liquid, ferromagnetic fluid. This, combined with the ability to produce sound, enables users to create musical sculptures that can be morphed in real time by interacting directly with the ferromagnetic fluid.