Anand Chandrasekaran

Anand Chandrasekaran, Founder and CTO of Mad Street Den

Anand Chandrasekaran is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Mad Street Den, an Artificial Intelligence company known for its AI platform Blox.123 He co-founded the company with his wife Ashwini Asokan, who serves as the CEO.3

Background and Experience

• Anand has a background in neuroscience, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence.3
• He holds a PhD in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.234
• Prior to co-founding Mad Street Den, Anand developed neural algorithms for real-world sensory classification problems in work with IBM, DARPA, and others.3

Work at Mad Street Den

At Mad Street Den, Anand and his team have been instrumental in building IP in AI and bringing about systematic adoption of AI across industries ranging from retail to healthcare, finance, and education.1

Some key focus areas include:

• Building models of generalizable intelligence on scale that can be deployed through meaningful applications across industries to billions of people globally3
• Developing AI-powered computer vision systems that can see and experience the world like humans do3
• Implementing dynamic routing of axons based on activity dependent cues on chip4

Anand's LinkedIn profile URL is https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandchandrasekaran.2