33Across Inc. Vice President of Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Vice President of Engineering at 33Across Inc.
- Past
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- Director of Engineering at WebJuice
- Senior Leader at Turn, Inc
- Research Scientist at SRI International
- Founder & CEO at HashThySelf, LLC
- Lecturer at Massey University
- Systems Engineer at Massey University
- Software Engineer at NZ Post
- Education
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- The Johns Hopkins University
- Massey University
- Massey University
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Anand Venkataraman’s Summary
Anand Venkataraman has 10+ years of experience in leadership, research, development and technology transfer. After finishing his CS PhD in 1997 and teaching graduate courses in Machine Learning and Algorithms, he moved to SRI International where he played key roles in the development of numerous speech and language based technologies to the state where they could be commercialized, including the automatic phonetic-level alignment of very noisy audio to text (e.g. song to lyric) and high-accuracy spoken content retrieval, for which Anand is principal named inventor on US Patent 7,308,404. Since leaving SRI in 2006, Anand led the development of document modeling for ad-targeting technologies at Turn, where he worked with John Ellis, and as Director of Engineering at WebJuice, oversaw the design, architecture and deployment of a unified framework for targeting advertisements over multiple delivery channels.
Anand has launched various ideas and products, one of the more popular ones being HashThySelf.com, where as founder and chief architect of an enterprise grade image matching service, he developed the technology to a state where it is currently being licensed to a multinational entertainment company.
Anand is a Build.org volunteer and a member of Amnesty International, PeTA and the American Mensa.
Anand Venkataraman’s Specialties:
Technology strategy, Team-building and motivation
Anand Venkataraman’s Experience
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Vice President of Engineering
33Across Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (6 months)
Cool stuff waiting to happen...
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Director of Engineering
WebJuice
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2007 — March 2008 (11 months)
Led engineering efforts, primarily concerned with the architecture and engineering of a unified ad-targeting system for multiple delivery channels and strategic build-vs-buy decisions regarding various issues such as click-fraud analysis and prevention.
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Senior Leader
Turn, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)
Document modeling is a core technology in a targeted ad serving network. My team was directly responsible for determining the best ads to display on publications. By "best", of course, I mean the ads that result in the least viewer fatigue, most value for advertisers and therefore maximum revenue for publishers, possibly such as yourself, and for CPA-based ad-networks (us).
To see an article I authored about Cost-Per-Action advertising, visit:
http://login.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=mn-biz&msg=175.1
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http://forums.mercurynews.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=mn-biz&msg=175.1 -
Research Scientist
SRI International
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2000 — October 2006 (6 years 1 month)
Innovation, Research and Development in the following areas among others:
1. Speech recognition
2. Speaker recognition
3. Dialogue modeling
4. Language modeling
5. Statistical learning techniques
6. Content discovery and data mining
Principal named inventor on issued US Patent 7,308,404 ("Method and apparatus for speech recognition using a dynamic vocabulary") as well as co-inventor on several others. -
Founder & CEO
HashThySelf, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — December 2005 (1 month)
HashThySelf, LLC, today manages a portfolio of technologies for license, all of which have to do with image search and/or matching (before Riya et al existed even in blogspace). Zetangole (an image-likeness based game), Zetagram (an image-likeness based fortune teller) and QT meter (in the works) are all offshoots of HashThySelf, the core image-matching engine.
The technology was architected and deployed in a scalable way, with an open API for developers to access over the net. In my role of chief architect I managed three team leads and one web-developer who were jointly responsible for the launch of the Internet-based, Palm-Treo based and Nokia-6682 based software clients for HashThySelf and associated services.
The initial business plan proposed the use of image matching as a feature for online-dating and matchmaking sites. -
Lecturer
Massey University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 1993 — October 2000 (7 years 3 months)
Primary responsibilities included:
o Basic and applied research in computer science.
o Education delivery to undergraduate students.
o Supervision and guidance for graduate students.
During this time, I consulted to industry on various technical issues. As an example, the last three digits of the customer code in any electricity bill in New Zealand are generated today (as of June 2004 anyway) using a CRC checksum-based algorithm that I designed and sold in 1999. See http://www.electricitycommission.govt.nz/pdfs/opdev/servprovinfo/tender/Registry-functional-specification.pdf -
Systems Engineer
Massey University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1991 — August 1993 (2 years 5 months)
I was a systems programmer, in a team of 5, responsible for a wide range of development and maintenance functions of Massey University's computer network and software.
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Software Engineer
NZ Post
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1990 — April 1991 (1 year 2 months)
I was the lead developer of the project to computerize New Zealand's electoral roll system. This system was still in use (with my original comments in code) as of 2004, and probably still is.
Anand Venkataraman’s Education
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The Johns Hopkins University
Post. Doc., Machine Learning/Language Modeling, 1998 — 1998
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Massey University
PhD, Computer Science, 1993 — 1997
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Massey University
DSc, Computer Science, 1992 — 1993
- Activities and Societies:
- Accomplished Toastmaster, Two-term President of Massey Toastmasters
Additional Information
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Anand Venkataraman’s Interests:
Quasi Professional Interests - Mobile applications, Entertainment related apps, Social networking apps. Other interests - Networking, Pottery, Painting (Gouache), Mobile Art, Sci-Fi, Writing (Fiction and Non-fiction)
Anand Venkataraman’s Groups:
American Mensa
Amnesty International, ICASSP conference
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San Francisco Mensans
Anand Venkataraman’s Honors:
Email from Gary Morgenthaler (General partner @
Morgenthaler ventures), reproduced with permission
(sensitive information replaced with XXX and ...)
From: "Gary J. Morgenthaler" <XXX>
To: "Anand Venkataraman" <XXX>
Cc: XXX...
Dear Anand,
You and your team greatly impressed the nVention BoD
with your technology, inventiveness and entrepreneurial
spirit -- ... Altogether, this was the most memorable
presentation ever at nVention. :)
I see a potential immediate application of your
technology at XXX, a company in which we are the lead
and sole outside investor. Accordingly, I will talk
with management there to explore their interest in
talking with you and will get back to you when I have
their response.
Congratulations on a clever and market-focused
innovation.
Best regards,
Gary
Gary J. Morgenthaler
General Partner
Morgenthaler Ventures
2710 Sand Hill Road, Suite 100
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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