Arvind Thiagarajan

Arvind Thiagarajan is an entrepreneurial researcher and technologist with a focus on building new products using cutting-edge technology and extensive research and development (R&D) background.

He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2011, followed by founding a startup and currently serving as an engineer at Twitter, with prior experience at Amazon.

His current areas of expertise and interest include mobile sensing, geo-location, algorithms, and machine learning, particularly excelling in early-stage product/project development and overseeing efforts from a business model perspective to detailed technical implementation.

Arvind has a diverse skill set, having contributed to research publications, developed systems across various technology domains such as distributed databases, cloud services, web applications, wireless protocols, mobile apps for both Android and iOS, geo-location algorithms, and machine learning/statistical signal processing algorithms, in addition to work on embedded firmware and sensor-related projects.

His educational background includes a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from MIT.

Professionally, Arvind has held roles such as Senior Staff ML Engineer at Twitter, Research Scientist in Wireless at Amazon, Founder and President of Infix, Technology Consultant at Trafficrna, Inc, and had internship experience at Yahoo! and Google.