Robert Rosenthal is a world-renowned Psychologist, well-known for his research on the role nonverbal communication and self-fulfilling prophecies in everyday life. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and served as the Chairman of Psychology Department at the Harvard University. He advices the AMWI Computer Vision and Speech Analysis Teams in developing bias-free behavior-prediction models, rooted in the fundamental psychological constructs of non-verbal communications. His research with Nalini Ambady in 1992 on the predictive power of “thin slices” of behavior (“Thin-slicing”) preceded the Behavioral A.I. research using deep neural networks in this year in the last couple of years.

Professor Rosenthal is the recipient of several national awards, including election to Fellow status in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology of the American Psychological Foundation (2003), Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology (APA, 2002). He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, Senior Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. A survey in the Review of General Psychology, published in 2002, ranked Rosenthal as the 84th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Andrei Hagiu is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Strategy group at Harvard Business School and in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at MIT Sloan. In 2012, he took a leave of absence from Harvard in order to work full-time at Intuit, helping with its strategic transformation from a product-focused company into a platform company. Andrei holds a PhD in economics from Princeton University and did his undergraduate studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in France. He is a citizen of Romania, France and the United States.

Andrei’s research and teaching focus on multi-sided platforms (e.g. Airbnb, Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Google, Facebook, PlayStation, TaskRabbit, etc.) and their unique strategic challenges. His work has been published in the Rand Journal of Economics, Management Science, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and the Harvard Business Review. Andrei serves as a Co-Editor for the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.

Andrei uses the insights drawn from his research to advise AMWI about the dynamics of scaling up a platform ecosystem.

Abhi is the Founder & CEO of AMWI. He brings more than 17 years of experience, 10 years as an entrepreneur launching and building successful technology start-ups. Previously, Abhi scaled up LexInnova to be among the top patent consulting companies in the world. His second start-up LexInsight became one of the largest AI-driven gig platforms for legal services with more than 20,000 U.S. licensed attorneys as its members. Abhi started his career as a career diplomat, specializing in the United Nations.

Abhi is a leading expert in machine learning. He coded some of the Company’s first models in NLP and Behavioral AI. He combines his experience as an entrepreneur in the staffing industry with his machine learning skills to find solutions to problems related to recruitment through AI.

Abhi holds an MA from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University and Bachelor of Technology with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi. He also earned an Advanced Diploma in the Portuguese language from the University of Lisbon.

Abhi has been a speaker at various industry and government conferences around the world and has been quoted in Forbes, among other publications, on technology issues.

A Computer Science engineer from IIT Kharagpur and a management graduate from ISB, Aditya leads all AI projects at AMWI. In his role as VP of Products, Aditya works with cross functional teams to deliver AI solutions. Over the last 5 years at AMWI, he has donned varied roles as Head of Consulting Practice at LexInnova and VP - Products at LexInsight.

Aditya brings with him more than 12 years of experience at companies like Mentor Graphics and HCL Technologies where he was developing complex machine learning algorithm to develop Power-aware chips used in modern computing devices.

A voracious book reader, Aditya likes to spend his weekends with his e-book reader.

Vasanth is a hands-on leader skilled at hiring and managing high-performance teams, driving big picture, and highly experienced in finance and operations. He received his MBA from the University of Notre Dame and brings over 20 years of finance and operations experience. Vasanth enjoys technology and brings his knowledge and experience from working at companies like Apple, Microsoft and Dell to start-ups environment.

An expert in the field of Computer Vision, Aaron leads Behavioral AI at AMWI. He has experience working on Behavioral AI projects in domains such as Fintech, Healthcare and Recruitment. He works very closely with our advisors and combines his expertize in AI with their psychology research to create AT systems that power Behavioral AI systems at AMWI.

In the past, Aaron has worked as a data scientist at a Canadian safety organization. Aaron has also competed in several hackathons where, given a problem, he worked in small teams to engineer functional prototypes and pitch solutions to judges. Outside of work, Aaron enjoys going running and playing the guitar and piano. Aaron graduated from Sonoma State University with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.

Cantina is the first GPU at AMWI. She has trained some of our earliest and most cutting-edge AI models. Cantina works tirelessly round the clock. She embodies the true founding spirit at AMWI.

Lalit is a technology leader with more than 18 years of experience in building and architecting internet scale applications using open source platforms. Lalit is helping architect and deliver engineering solutions for Retailers and Sales users at LI AI as VP - Engineering.

He is a grad from IIT Kharagpur and enjoys playing Chess in free time.

Eileen, a native of San Francisco Bay Area, started her career in staffing nearly ten years ago onsite with a manufacturing company serving as an HR representative. She moved to Robert Half International, where she spent the majority of her career. She also worked for a small Silicon Valley based start-up managing a sales team for an executive compensation benchmarking tool. Her tenure in the industry has allowed her to have a proven track record in providing the highest level quality and service. Outside of the office, Eileen enjoys spending time with her family, taking online courses to continue learning as much as possible, dining at new restaurants, and can be known for taking small weekend getaways as often as she can.

His presence in the center of our office spreads happiness and cheer all around. He inspires us to be Intelligent, Resilient, Happy and Respectful every day.

With a keen desire to innovate and build amazing products, Vivek has accumulated rich experience of over 15 years working over multitude of domains such as E- commerce, Machine Learning, IOT, DevOps, Finance, Telematics, Middleware automation etc. Having worked at both large enterprises and startups he has the best of both worlds (and the worst as well!).

As an avid supporter of lean and agile processes Vivek has helped transform tens of technology teams to be a more productive versions of themselves.

Akash leads the Data Science team in the Gurgaon office at LI AI. He comes with a deep experience in the domain of Natural Language Processing having helped companies like Accenture build complex AI models. He has keen interest in building scalable products that deliver valuable insights via Deep Learning models. His models have been deployed in varied industry domains such as Fintech, Banking and Financial Services.