Srijan Kumar, Ph.D.
About Srijan Kumar, Ph.D.
Cofounder and CEO of Lighthouz AI, an enterprise-grade platform to create accurate AI applications. I am an Assistant Professor of AI at Georgia Tech with 14+ years’ experience & 60+ publications in AI, ML, data science research and development. Cited 5400+ times. My expertise is in Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, Foundation Models, Graph machine learning, Data Mining, Text Mining. I build methods that leverage terabytes of data spanning multiple modalities and languages. I build tools that empower users to be more efficient. My models have been used at Flipkart (India's largest e-commerce platform, acquired by Walmart) and has influenced Twitter's ML models. A new model is being deployed at Wikipedia to aid their moderators. Prior to Georgia Tech, I was a visiting researcher at Google AI, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, and a PhD student at the University of Maryland. I am honored to be recognized as an NSF CAREER awardee, Kavli Fellow by National Academy of Sciences, Forbes 30 under 30, CRA Computing Innovation Mentor, Facebook Faculty Research Awardee, Adobe Faculty Research Awardee, Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow, ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018 runner-up, WWW 2017 Best Paper Award runner-up, Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Award 2017, and Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medal. My work has been covered in a documentary (Familiar Shapes), in a radio interview (WABE), and by popular press, including Wired, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, New York Magazine, and more.