Alex Smola
InvestorCEO and Co-Founder of Boson AI at PICUS CAPITAL
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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
- Boson AICEO & Cofoundercurrent2023 — presentSunnyvale, CA
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Distinguished Scientist / VP2019 — 2023East Palo Alto, CA, United States
- AmazonDirector2016 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityProfessor2013 — 2017
- Marianas LabsCEO2015San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleVisiting Scientist2013 — 2015Mountain View, CA
- GoogleVisiting Scientist2012Mountain View
- UC BerkeleyAdjunct Professor2012Berkeley
- Yahoo!Principal Research Scientist2008 — 2012Santa Clara
- NICTAProfessor2004 — 2008
- NICTAProgram Leader2004 — 2008
- Australian National UniversityGroup Leader2001 — 2004
- Fraunhofer Berlin (formerly GMD)PhD Student1996 — 1998
Skills & more
Machine Learning99Optimization51Statistics68Bioinformatics36Statistical Modeling96User Profiling10Scalability10Distributed Systems24Data Mining22Computer Vision26Pattern Recognition23Algorithms41
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High Performance ComputingSimulationsData AnalysisScientific ComputingText MiningArtificial IntelligenceInformation RetrievalKernelMatlabC++RPythonLanguages 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
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
Antonia Lange
Finance Manager 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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