User:Jldeitch/sandbox/Ashutosh Garg

Ashutosh Garg (born 1978) is a researcher in artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as CEO and co-founder of [Eightfold.ai], a Talent Intelligence Platform software company. He is also the co-founder and CTO of BloomReach.

Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia founded Eightfold.ai in September 2016 with undisclosed seed funding. The company, based in Mountain View, CA, offers a Talent Intelligence Platform, a system for talent management at mid-size and enterprise organizations based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Prior to Eightfold, Dr. Garg worked on search and personalization at both Google and IBM Research. He has more than 6000 academic and patent citations, as well as more than 35 peer-reviewed research publications.

Dr. Garg has multiple academic awards. His Ph. D. thesis in machine learning won an outstanding thesis award. He is the recipient of an IBM Research Fellowship, the Robert T. Chien Award in 2003 for outstanding research, and the Best Thesis Award as an undergraduate at IIT Delhi. The University of Illinois recognized him in 2013 for its Young Alumni Achievement Award.

Education
Dr. Garg holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.