Simanta Gautam is a talented AI researcher and entrepreneur with a diverse background in computer science and mathematics. He is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Synapse Technology Corporation, a Palo Alto-based startup using cutting-edge AI to improve security checkpoints. Simanta's expertise lies in computer vision, machine learning, and software engineering, and he has worked on a range of projects throughout his career, from speech recognition models at MIT to video understanding at Clarifai. Simanta is also a former AI researcher at Harvard Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, where he focused on reinforcement learning, and he has held internships with NASA, Amazon, and Microsoft. With his experience leading software and hardware engineering teams, founding Machine Intelligence Community for research-oriented students, and co-directing Incube, a venture-backed community of creators and hackers, Simanta is a visionary leader in tech.