Abhijit Bendale

Abhijit Bendale is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of TWO, a tech company focused on redefining human-AI interaction through multilingual language models.1 Here are some key details about his background and career:

Education and Expertise

Abhijit holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, specializing in computer vision and machine learning.3 His areas of expertise include:

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Biometrics
• Open-Set Recognition2

Professional Experience

TWO:

• Founder and CTO since July 20213
• Leading the development of SUTRA, TWO's proprietary multilingual language models1

Previous Roles:

• Chief Technology Officer at NEON (Samsung Electronics subsidiary) from 2019-20213
• Various senior engineering and research positions at Samsung Electronics from 2015-20213
• Research positions at institutions like SRI International and MIT Media Lab3

Research and Publications

Abhijit is an accomplished researcher with numerous publications and patents to his name. Some of his most cited works include:

• "Towards Open Set Deep Networks" (2016)
• "Towards Open World Recognition" (2015)2

He has also contributed to several patents related to augmented reality, computer vision, and AI technologies.2

Advisory Roles

Abhijit served as an Advisory Board Member for the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs from January to December 2021.3

At TWO, Abhijit works alongside CEO Pranav Mistry and other executives to develop AI technologies that aim to make language models more accessible and effective across multiple languages.13