Siddharth Batra

Siddharth Batra is a computer scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur who has authored several papers [1] in the area of artificial intelligence. Batra co-founded Thrive Financial, Inc. in 2017 to provide financial services to students based on upcoming jobs [2] and is currently serving as the chief technology officer.[3]

Siddharth Batra
Alma materStanford University
Jaypee University of Information Technology
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsThrive Financial, Inc.
Twitter Inc.
ZunaVision Inc.
ThesisHigh-accuracy 3D sensing for mobile manipulation: Improving object detection and door opening (2009)
Academic advisorsAndrew Ng
Websitesidbatra.com

Biography

Batra obtained his B.S. from Jaypee University of Information Technology [4] and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University under the supervision of Andrew Ng.[5] At Stanford, Batra worked on the STAIR (STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot) [6] where he wrote a thesis on High-accuracy 3d sensing for mobile manipulation [7] as well as a paper on energy disaggregation.[8] Batra, together with Ashutosh Saxena and Andrew Ng, invented a patented system for augmenting video content [9][10] and used it to create a video advertising company ZunaVision [11][12] which was funded by Stanford professor David Cheriton.[13][14]

In 2013, Batra joined Twitter and went on to become a Director of Engineering in the Ads team. In 2017, Batra co-founded Thrive Financial Inc.[15][16]

References
  1. "Siddharth Batra – Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  2. "Thrive gives loans to students based on summer internships and job offers". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  3. "Recruiters Share 9 Mistakes Job Seekers Are Making Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic". forbes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  4. "DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY". www.jiit.ac.in. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  5. Ng, Andrew. "Curriculum Vitae--Andrew Y. Ng" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  6. "STAIR: STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot". stair.stanford.edu/. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  7. Quigley, Morgan; Batra, Siddharth; Gould, Stephen; Klingbeil, Ellen; Le, Quoc; Wellman, Ashley; Ng, Andrew Y. (2009). High-accuracy 3D sensing for mobile manipulation: Improving object detection and door opening. ieeexplore.ieee.org. pp. 2816–2822. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152750. ISBN 978-1-4244-2788-8. S2CID 6230559. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  8. "Energy Disaggregation via Discriminative Sparse Coding". papers.nips.cc. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  9. "Systems, methods and devices for augmenting video content". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  10. "Extreme makeover: computer science edition". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  11. "Embed Ads In User-Generated Videos With ZunaVision". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  12. "Embedding video ads within video". abc7ny.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  13. "The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check". forbes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  14. "Zunavison Raises Funds, Launches Product". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  15. "Why analytics is the 'secret sauce' of startup success". mitsloan.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  16. "Company offers loans on earning potential". thedartmouth.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.


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