About
Kamran Khan is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slang, where he leads the company's technical work and its machine-learning research in natural-language processing, including domain-specific ASR, word-sense disambiguation, and machine translation. His background spans software development across web and mobile ecosystems, product and UX design, and computer vision, with academic training in theoretical computer science and mathematics. Since Slang's founding, he has been involved in team management, recruitment, finance and operations, and fundraising as the company grew to more than 60 employees.
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Co-founders at Slang
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Diego VillegasCo-founder
Experience
- SlangCo-Founder and CTOcurrent2013 — presentBoston, Massachusetts, United States
- PortraitAdvisor, AI/ML and Data Sciencecurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- PanjivaSoftware Engineer2011 — 2013Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Freelance EmploymentIndependent Consultant2005 — 2011New York, New York, United States
- Columbia UniversityProject Manager and Web Developer2009 — 2010New York, New York, United States
- MPLS Marketing, Inc.Senior Engineer and Project Manager2009 — 2010Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- MPLS Marketing, Inc.Senior Web Engineer2008 — 2009Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- MPLS Marketing, Inc.Web Developer2007 — 2008Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Skills & more
Deep Learning15Web Development17Natural Language Processing12Software Development9Web Applications8TypeScript9User Experience Design12User Interface Design11User Experience7Data Analysis3Haskell1Database Design1
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Database AdministrationUser ResearchServer ArchitectureServer AdministrationNatural Language UnderstandingMachine LearningStatistical Machine TranslationArtificial Intelligence (AI)Ruby on RailsCSSJavaScriptHTML 5Languages English · Spanish
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- Who is Kamran Khan?
- Kamran Khan is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slang, where he leads the company's technical work and its machine-learning research in natural-language processing, including domain-specific ASR, word-sense disambiguation, and machine translation. His background spans software development across web and mobile ecosystems, product and UX design, and computer vision, with academic training in theoretical computer science and mathematics. Since Slang's founding, he has been involved in team management, recruitment, finance and operations, and fundraising as the company grew to more than 60 employees.
- Where does Kamran Khan work?
- Kamran Khan is Co-founder of Slang.
- What companies did Kamran Khan found?
- Kamran Khan founded Slang.
- Where did Kamran Khan go to school?
- Kamran Khan studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science and Engineering); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering).
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