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Zafer Sahinoglo, Ph.D.

VP of Business Innovation
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center

Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu received his M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively.

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Zafer Sahinoglo, Ph.D.

VP of Business Innovation
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center

Zafer Sahinoglo, Ph.D.

VP of Business Innovation
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center

Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu received his M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively.

He was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. His technical expertise includes stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, Li-ion battery modeling.

He worked in Japan for 6 months in 2014 to promote new software and service based business models in various business divisions. He formed a Vision 2020 Business Innovation group in Mitsubishi Electric US in 2016, where his team developed several SaaS platforms. He has been leading and managing product design and agile product development, building business models, developing technology strategies, and bundling these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.

He is an inventor on more than 80 patents, has co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press. He also earned Docent Dr. (Associate Prof.) title in Turkey in 2012 in Electrical Engineering.

 

Aruna Narayanan

Principal Software Architect
GE Healthcare

As a Principal Software Architect in GE HealthCare’s AI organization, Aruna leads the architectural effort in building an AI platform that can help build AI models at scale and has successfully contributed to deploying several AI solutions on GEHC devices, on premise and on cloud. She collaborates across multiple GE HealthCare businesses to enable their digital transformation and speed of execution while consuming the AI platform solution.

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Aruna Narayanan

Principal Software Architect
GE Healthcare

Aruna Narayanan

Principal Software Architect
GE Healthcare

As a Principal Software Architect in GE HealthCare’s AI organization, Aruna leads the architectural effort in building an AI platform that can help build AI models at scale and has successfully contributed to deploying several AI solutions on GEHC devices, on premise and on cloud. She collaborates across multiple GE HealthCare businesses to enable their digital transformation and speed of execution while consuming the AI platform solution.

 

Tom Kersten

R&D Engineer
Royal NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre

Tom is a distinguished R&D Engineer specialising in AI within the aerospace sector. Armed with a background in computer science and AI, Tom possesses a comprehensive understanding of AI systems. Within his company, he stands out as a leading visionary delving into the integration of generative AI in space, in particular to support the efforts of the Dutch government and its military in this domain. His pioneering work involves exploring and harnessing the potential of GenAI models to revolutionise satellite operations, mission planning, earth observation and space exploration.

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Tom Kersten

R&D Engineer
Royal NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre

Tom Kersten

R&D Engineer
Royal NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre

Tom is a distinguished R&D Engineer specialising in AI within the aerospace sector. Armed with a background in computer science and AI, Tom possesses a comprehensive understanding of AI systems. Within his company, he stands out as a leading visionary delving into the integration of generative AI in space, in particular to support the efforts of the Dutch government and its military in this domain. His pioneering work involves exploring and harnessing the potential of GenAI models to revolutionise satellite operations, mission planning, earth observation and space exploration. Tom's dedication to pushing the boundaries of AI in aerospace extends to leveraging generative AI's capabilities, envisaging transformative applications that could redefine the landscape of space technology.

 

Franz Zemen

VP of Software Engineering
Capital One

Franz Zemen

VP of Software Engineering
Capital One

Franz Zemen

VP of Software Engineering
Capital One
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Aayush Mudgal

Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Pinterest

Aayush Mudgal is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, currently leading the efforts around Privacy Aware Conversion Modeling. He has a successful track record of starting and executing 0 to 1 projects, including conversion optimization, video ads ranking, landing page optimization, and evolving the ads ranking from GBDT to DNN stack. His expertise is in large-scale recommendation systems, personalization, and ads marketplaces. Before entering the industry, Aayush conducted research on intelligent tutoring systems, developing data-driven feedback to aid students in learning computer programming. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 

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Aayush Mudgal

Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Pinterest

Aayush Mudgal is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, currently leading the efforts around Privacy Aware Conversion Modeling. He has a successful track record of starting and executing 0 to 1 projects, including conversion optimization, video ads ranking, landing page optimization, and evolving the ads ranking from GBDT to DNN stack. His expertise is in large-scale recommendation systems, personalization, and ads marketplaces. Before entering the industry, Aayush conducted research on intelligent tutoring systems, developing data-driven feedback to aid students in learning computer programming. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 

 

Shaloo Garg

Managing Director
Microsoft - Late Stage Startups & Unicorns

Shaloo Garg is Managing Director, Late Stage Startups & Unicorns and based out of Silicon Valley. She brings a combination of strong startup, enterprise, strategic partnership and corporate development experience.

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Shaloo Garg

Managing Director
Microsoft - Late Stage Startups & Unicorns

Shaloo Garg

Managing Director
Microsoft - Late Stage Startups & Unicorns

Shaloo Garg is Managing Director, Late Stage Startups & Unicorns and based out of Silicon Valley. She brings a combination of strong startup, enterprise, strategic partnership and corporate development experience.

Previously, Shaloo was Partner , Global Oracle Innovation at Oracle where she lead the Global Corporate Innovation practice of commercializing revenue opportunities for startups into the enterprise client base and partner ecosystem. She has also lead go-to-market for Oracle’s cloud business and was part of the M&A team that acquired Peoplesoft, Siebel, Retek etc. Prior to joining Oracle, she was in a couple of early stage startups. Shaloo is passionate about Tech for Good and is President , BOD at UN Women, Silicon Valley , a “Champion of Innovation” at UN Women where she is spinning up virtual Innovation Labs with Universities leveraging emerging technologies to encourage digital literacy in developing countries for young girls who do not have access to education.

Shaloo strongly believes that technology’s best use case ever is using its power to impact wider social issues like hunger, poverty, STEM education, clean water, energy, sustainable cities etc in developing and under-developed economies. Shaloo is a Guest speaker at Penn Law School and is an MBA from Delhi University and has done specialization in Innovation and Design Thinking from Stanford d.School. Words to live by: “In life, there are no mistakes… only lessons” – Vic Johnson.

 

Dr. Divya Sridhar

Director, Privacy Initiatives
BBB National Programs

Dr. Divya Sridhar

Director, Privacy Initiatives
BBB National Programs

Dr. Divya Sridhar

Director, Privacy Initiatives
BBB National Programs
 

Wayne Kaufman

Senior Counsel, Data Privacy Officer, Vice President
ORBCOMM Inc.

Wayne Kaufman

Senior Counsel, Data Privacy Officer, Vice President
ORBCOMM Inc.

Wayne Kaufman

Senior Counsel, Data Privacy Officer, Vice President
ORBCOMM Inc.

Jolyon Martin, Head of Business Development, PetMedix (AHUSA Testimonial)

The meeting was a good chance to connect with colleagues and for us to share our progress and future plans.

Brian Kanke, Chairman, Zoo Pharmaceuticals Dynamics (AHUSA Testimonial)

This was our first time at a Kiasco Event and they went above and beyond expectations in guiding us through the event.