Shashi Kant
MIT graduate, interested in semantic web technologies, emergent semantics, machine learning and user interactions
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.cognika.com |
| Industries: | Biotech, Computing, Education, Financial, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile, Retail |
| Skills: | AJAX, Architecture, Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Databases, Design, Django, Embedded systems, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, Flash, French, Human-Computer Interaction, Investment, Java, Languages, Languages and Platforms, MacOS applications, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Python, Rails, Retail, Sales, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, Web design, Web Development, Windows applications |
| Location: | Boston, MA |
| Groups: | Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) |
| Visas: | US, Canada |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | AI, bayesian, biopharma, biotechs, clinical trials, cognitive computing, Healthcare, inferencing, latent semantics, lucene, Machine Learning, mit, nlp, ontologies, pharma, probabilistic networks, Reasoning, semantic web, solr, w3c |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
FEATURED STARTUP
Cognika Corporation
Cognika Corporation
Advanced analytics for the healthcare & lifesciences industry.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Shashi Kant manages product innovation and industry application, having developed the core Cognika technology and implemented it on a variety of data sets over the last six years. While at MIT, Shashi’s graduate research focused on Semantic technologies, Bayesian reasoning and emergent models of data.Prior to his graduate work at MIT, he specialized in complex system engineering and architecture at several major corporations, including: Schlumberger, Thinq.com and Absolute Software. His technology experience has spanned a broad range of innovative development areas. Shashi received Masters Degree in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT) and MIT's Sloan School of Management. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, and was an ASP Fellow at MIT.
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2006 |
| Degree: | MSc |
