Vijay Krishnan

• Founder & CTO of Turing
• Founder & CTO of Rover, acquired by Revcontent where I am SVP of Data Science. Techcrunch and Forbes covering the acquisition
• Senior Data Science/Machine Learning/Engineering/Business/Product leader.
• Experienced in building, growing and leading teams applying large scale machine learning methods toward creating massive commercial value.
• 10 years industry experience leading Large Scale commercial Machine Learning Efforts toward problems in text categorization, personalized search, personalized content recommendations, CTR prediction and eCPM maximization for personalized and contextual ad targeting, and optimization of other business objectives as Sr. Scientist at Yahoo, as Founder & CTO of Rover and as Senior Vice President of Data Science at Revcontent.
• Co-founded Rover, served as Co-CEO, later as CTO, raised over $6 Million in Venture Capital, hired a stellar team of engineers and designers, negotiated multiple business partnerships, drove different aspects of the product and ensured a successful exit by way of acquisition by Revcontent.
• Led growth efforts at Rover, whose web app (then called Flipora) grew to 40 Million registered users.
• Drove revenue growth via careful metrics optimization and business partnerships and generated over $5 Million in revenues at Rover, before its acquisition in Feb 2017.
• Authored highly cited Machine Learning, Web Search, Semantic Search, Entity extraction, Data Mining and NLP related papers in top conferences and journals.
• Computer Science at IIT Bombay, Stanford University