Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Gurjeet Singh, Co-Founder and Chairman of Ayasdi
Posted on Monday, Jul 31st 2017 This is a very interesting conversation about technology from Stanford being commercialized in financial services and healthcare, addressing very specific use cases in risk and other domains. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Ayasdi. Gurjeet Singh: I’m one of the co-founders and Chairman of the Board at Ayasi. I’m a mathematician and a computer scientist. I grew up in Delhi, India. I ended up working at Texas Instruments as a chip designer for about a year. I made my way to the US to pursue graduate studies in Computational Math and ended up working across computational fluid dynamics and computational mechanics. I eventually ended up doing my Ph.D. in the Math department on topology. Sramana Mitra: This is at Stanford? Gurjeet Singh: Yes, correct. The genesis of that research was pretty interesting. Around the year 2000 or so, DARPA and NSF realized that the way people were doing science had changed. Since most of their research financing went into scientific endeavors, they realized that people started doing science by creating large complex datasets. They felt that people who are constructing the best large complex datasets were…
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