our team

Sanjay Chopra

Co-Founder & CEO

Award-winning CEO and serial technology entrepreneur; expertise in AI and e-commerce spanning over two decades

Successfully founded OnlineChoice. Licensed Intellions IP to Google; former executive at Giant Eagle, IBM

Graduated with B. Tech in Computer Science from MANIT, Master in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon

Eric Nyberg, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist

One of the world’s leading cognitive computing data scientists

Academic consultant for IBM Watson since 2007

Developed SmartCognitives™ Decision Management System

Professor and Director, Master of Computational Data Science Program at Carnegie Mellon

Alexander Hauptmann, PhD

AI Consultant, Image and Video Scientist

CMU research professor in multimedia analysis and indexing, speech recognition, interfaces to multimedia system and language

Pete Minnelli

Partner & SVP, Creative

20+ years experience in branding, identity and UX design and development

Leads cognistx creative, UX and marketing teams with a focus on human-centered design and user engagement

Roberto Pareja

Director Finance & Business Development

10+ years of experience in corporate and investment banking and new ventures. Shareholder and board member of a South American bank holding company (SCFG)

BS, Purdue University; MBA, CMU Tepper School of Business

Lynette Stevens

Business Development Manager

15+ years of experience in business development, strategic marketing, corporate event management and fund raising.

BS, Indiana University of PA; Study Abroad Program, University of Wollongong, Australia

Uxue Zurutuza

Senior Data Scientist

Data Scientist with experience in machine learning, deep learning, business intelligence, and analytics

BS in CS + Business Admin, Deusto University; Dual MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering + Engineering & Technology Innovation Management, CMU

Roshan Bhave

Intelligence Solutions Architect

4+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Anomaly Detection and Time Series Analysis

BS in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology

Kaushik Shakkari

Data Scientist

Data Scientist with experience in natural language processing, user behavioral analysis, machine learning, deep learning

MS in CS (specialization in Data Science), USC; B.Tech. in CS, Amrita University; Fellow and Mentor at Insight Data Science Program

Ihor Markevych

Data Scientist

Data Scientist with work in egocentric trajectory prediction, fuzzy consensus aggregation methods and a variety of NLP fields

MS Candidate in Computational Data Science, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Raminder Dhiman

Senior Product Manager

3 years of client acquisition and client management experience; Strong prioritization skills and analytical ability

B. Tech Mechanical, Punjabi University; MBA, UBS Panjab; Information Systems Management, Duquesne University

Jagriti Pandey

Product Manager

Former Robotics Process Automation SME at Caterpillar Inc. 3+ years of experience in Change Management and AI-Powered Process Automation.

BE Computer Science, BMSCE; Master of Information Systems Management, CMU

Prachi Dhiman

Product Manager

10 years in Investment Banking Operations and 2 years of Product Management experience

Bachelor’s in Finance, UMass Amherst

Shivang Gupta

Senior Software Engineer

Principal Developer with 9+ years of experience designing and building web apps, APIs, data pipelines and processing engines, and AI-based solutions

Francis Carayol

Senior Developer

15+ years of experience as a full-stack developer using numerous programming languages and technologies

Leads WordPress development team, along with technical problem resolution for clients

Aniket Trivedi

Senior Software Engineer

2+ years of Software Development experience; project experience with Machine Learning and Data Science

BE Computer Science, University of Pune; MS School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Justin Waltrip

Junior Data Scientist

Undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University studying computer science and applied mathematics and statistics with a focus in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Aditya Govil

Data Engineer

Data Engineer with previous experience as a Software Engineer and Data Scientist

MS in CS from NC State University; BTech in CS from G.G.S. Indraprastha University

Bharani Ujjaini Kempaiah

Summer Data Science Intern

Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University interested in working with Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Cloud Computing

MS Candidate in Computational Data Science, School of Computer Science, CMU; B.Tech. in CSE, PES University.

Arav Agarwal

Summer Data Science Intern

Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University interested in predicting information from structured data, and in machine learning systems.

MS Candidate in Computational Data Science, School of Computer Science, CMU; Bachelors in Engineering in Computer Science and Data Science, University of Michigan.

ai consultants

Vishal Dhiman

Senior AI Product Consultant

10+ years of experience in Technology Leadership and Product Management

BS Computer Science, UMASS Amherst; MBA, Tepper School of Business, CMU

Brian Urban

Healthcare Business Development

10+ years of experience in Market Development for next generation digital health products

MBA, Waynesburg University; MS, Exercise Physiology, California University of Pennsylvania

Alessandro Molteni

Product Management Consultant

15+ years of experience in technology leadership and product development

Systems thinker with a keen eye for details, implications, and creative problem solving

international partners

Vikas Aggarwal

Managing Partner - APAC

25+ years of experience with Global IT majors like Wipro and domain expertise in IT, Finance, Telecom & Healthcare

Created and built successful scalable enterprises by his strategic foresight of market dynamics

Vinay Gowda

Director - Business Development

26+ years of strong sales, technical and organizational management experience

Various organizations as well as own business ventures in the IT Sector encompassing sales, operations, people management in Services, Products, Audio Video Consulting and Integration.

Development & Engineering Partners

Our world-class development partner is located in Jaipur, India. These highly skilled team members bring deep expertise in building and implementing enterprise level products and applications.

ADVISORY BOARD

Susan Frank

President, ASF Solutions LLC

Former VP of Population Health Management, Allegheny Health Network (AHN)

Shandong Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Radiology, Biomedical Informatics, Bioengineering, Intelligent Systems, Clinical and Translational Science

Director, Intelligent Computing for Clinical Imaging (ICCI) Lab

Imaging Research Division, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh

Daniel McElroy

Top performing sales executive with 25+ years’ experience with leading global organizations in healthcare, including Philips Healthcare.

Expertise with various modalities used for diagnosis and treatment of patients across the continuum, in radiology, imaging, interventional x-ray, and patient care.

Parijat Agarwal

Co-Founder & COO Metacube focusing on new product development and technology innovations

20+ years of Technology Experience; graduated from IIT Delhi in 1994 with a degree in Computer Science.

Kevin Srigley

President, Schmidt Market Research

Former Senior VP, Giant Eagle

Mike Ritter

President, MFR Consulting, LLC

Former CMO and SVP Consumer and Mass Business, Verizon

Karen Barnes

Executive Director, Venture Cafe Winston Salem

Founding Partner, Cognistx

Darin Hayes

30+ years in business development and sales leadership

Cognistx investor and advisor committed to maximizing growth

Doug Wnorowski

30+ years spent in diverse business sectors: medical devices, SaaS based internet sector, and both post secondary and professional education.

Drove strategic direction and tactical execution across sales, marketing, product, technology and operations.

we are leading researchers in cognitive computing and machine intelligence with deep expertise across multiple industries