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Alex Smola

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CEO and Co-Founder of Boson AI at PICUS CAPITAL

Sunnyvale, California, United States

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About

CEO and co-founder of Boson AI with a physics background and PhD from TU Berlin; previously VP and Distinguished Scientist at AWS for seven years and held research roles across academia and industry. Focus area: artificial intelligence.

Experience

  1. Boson AICEO & Cofoundercurrent2023 — presentSunnyvale, California, United States
  2. Amazon Web Services (AWS)Distinguished Scientist / VP2019 — 2023East Palo Alto, CA, United States
  3. AmazonDirector2016 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Carnegie Mellon UniversityProfessor2013 — 2017
  5. Marianas LabsCEO2015San Francisco Bay Area
  6. GoogleVisiting Scientist2013 — 2015Mountain View, CA
  7. GoogleVisiting Scientist2012Mountain View
  8. UC BerkeleyAdjunct Professor2012Berkeley
  9. Yahoo!Principal Research Scientist2008 — 2012Santa Clara
  10. NICTAProfessor2004 — 2008
  11. NICTAProgram Leader2004 — 2008
  12. Australian National UniversityGroup Leader2001 — 2004
  13. Fraunhofer Berlin (formerly GMD)PhD Student1996 — 1998

Skills & more

Machine LearningOptimization51Statistics69Bioinformatics37Statistical Modeling97User Profiling10Scalability10Distributed Systems25Data Mining22Computer Vision27Pattern Recognition24Algorithms41
+8 moreHigh Performance ComputingSimulationsData AnalysisScientific ComputingText MiningArtificial IntelligenceMatlabInformation Retrieval

Languages English · French · German · Italian · Spanish

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Colleagues at PICUS CAPITAL

Abhijay Thacker
Investment Advisor at PICUS CAPITAL
Alexander Samwer
Founding Partner at PICUS CAPITAL
Amit Jain
CEO at Rewired
Andreas Stryz
CTO at FINN at PICUS CAPITAL
Andy Cohen
SVP of Sales at Bill.com at PICUS CAPITAL
Annika in der Beek
Chief People Officer at Statista at PICUS CAPITAL
Anselm Bauer
Co-Founder at Alasco at PICUS CAPITAL
Anthony Hayhoe
Head of IR & Fundraising at PICUS CAPITAL

Frequently asked questions

Who is Alex Smola?
CEO and co-founder of Boson AI with a physics background and PhD from TU Berlin; previously VP and Distinguished Scientist at AWS for seven years and held research roles across academia and industry. Focus area: artificial intelligence.
Where does Alex Smola work?
Alex Smola is CEO and Co-Founder of Boson AI at PICUS CAPITAL.
Where did Alex Smola go to school?
Alex Smola studied at Technische Universität Berlin (PhD, Computer Science); Technical University of Munich (Diplom (Master's degree), Physics).

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