Rohit Khare

Current

• Founder at Ångströ.com
• Owner at KnowNow, Inc.

Past

• Director at CommerceNet Labs
• Technical Staff at W3C

Education

• University of California, Irvine
• California Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Rohit Khare’s Summary

Seeking intriguing new research questions about the future of electronic commerce and event-based software architectures.

Rohit Khare’s Experience

• Founder

  Ångströ.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Ångströ helps deliver precisely the information you wanted -- just news about the right person, just alerts about the right company, even just photos of the your closest friends. We're experimenting with several new products around our text-analysis and relationship-analysis algorthms that bring "publish/subscribe" event notifications to a much broader market in 2008.

• Owner

  KnowNow, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — Present (8 years 7 months)

  Co-founder, ran it for several years, very proud of the team there, still working hard to grow the market for event-driven applications...

• Director

  CommerceNet Labs

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 8 months)

  Created an R&D-focused innovation strategy around the theme of "decentralization": How can we build software that works the way society works (without central control)? Recruited researchers and interns into areas as diverse as prediction markets and personalization, annotation and advertising. Currently focusing on my own research prototypes for "an atomic-scale view of the web."

• Technical Staff

  W3C

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

Rohit Khare’s Education

• University of California, Irvine

  Ph.D., Informatics, 1998 — 2003

• California Institute of Technology

  BS (Hons), Engg. & Applied Science, Economics, 1991 — 1995

Additional Information

Rohit Khare’s Groups:

PCForum2006

•    Caltech Alumni Association member
•    PC Forum 2006 member

Rohit Khare’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch