Biography:Siddharth Batra

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Siddharth Batra
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Alma materStanford University
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsX1, Inc.
Twitter Inc.
ZunaVision Inc.
ThesisHigh-accuracy 3D sensing for mobile manipulation: Improving object detection and door opening (2009)
Academic advisorsAndrew Ng
Websitesidbatra.com

Siddharth Batra is a computer scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur who has authored several papers[1] in the area of artificial intelligence. Batra is currently the co-founder [2][3] of X1 Card a no annual fee credit card that has been dubbed “the smartest credit card ever made.” [4][5]

Biography

Batra obtained his B.S. from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology[6] and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University under the supervision of Andrew Ng.[7] At Stanford, Batra worked on the STAIR (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot) [8] where he wrote a thesis on High-accuracy 3d sensing for mobile manipulation[9] as well as a paper on energy disaggregation.[10] Batra, together with Ashutosh Saxena and Andrew Ng, invented a patented system for augmenting video content [11][12] and used it to create a video advertising company ZunaVision[13][14] which was funded by Stanford professor David Cheriton.[15][16]

In 2013, Batra joined Twitter and went on to become a Director of Engineering in the Ads team. In 2017, Batra co-founded Thrive Financial Inc.[17][18] which was later renamed to X1 Inc. after the launch of their credit card product. [19]

References

  1. ↑ "Siddharth Batra – Google Scholar Citations". https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=SM_jkBYAAAAJ. 
  2. ↑ "X1 Card Raises $12 Million In Funding Round Led By Spark Capital". 14 January 2021. https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2021/x1-card-raises-12-million-in-funding-round-led-by-spark-capital/. 
  3. ↑ "The X1 Credit Card: A Unique Option for Younger Consumers". https://evergreenpodcasts.com/banking-transformed/the-x1-credit-card-a-unique-option-for-younger-consumers. 
  4. ↑ "The new no-fee X1 Card offers higher credit limits and perks that appeal to younger cardholders". https://www.cnbc.com/select/x1-card-review/. 
  5. ↑ "The X1 Credit Card raises the bar with security and rewards". https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/credit-cards/x1-smart-credit-card/. 
  6. ↑ "DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY". http://www.jiit.ac.in. 
  7. ↑ Ng, Andrew. "Curriculum Vitae--Andrew Y. Ng". https://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/curriculum-vitae.pdf. 
  8. ↑ "STAIR: STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot". http://stair.stanford.edu/people.php. 
  9. ↑ Quigley, Morgan; Batra, Siddharth; Gould, Stephen; Klingbeil, Ellen; Le, Quoc; Wellman, Ashley; Ng, Andrew Y. (2009). High-accuracy 3D sensing for mobile manipulation: Improving object detection and door opening. pp. 2816–2822. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152750. ISBN 978-1-4244-2788-8. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5152750. Retrieved 2020-05-16. 
  10. ↑ "Energy Disaggregation via Discriminative Sparse Coding". http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4054-energy-disaggregation-via-discriminative-sparse-coding. 
  11. ↑ "Systems, methods and devices for augmenting video content". https://patents.google.com/patent/US8477246B2/en. 
  12. ↑ "Extreme makeover: computer science edition". 12 November 2008. https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/november12/video-111208.html. 
  13. ↑ "Embed Ads In User-Generated Videos With ZunaVision". https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2008/11/26/26readwriteweb-embed_ads_in_user-generated_videos_with_zunavisio.html. 
  14. ↑ "Embedding video ads within video". https://abc7ny.com/archive/6685282/. 
  15. ↑ "The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check". https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0820/best-colleges-12-david-cheriton-stanford-professor-billionaire.html. 
  16. ↑ "Zunavison Raises Funds, Launches Product". https://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/zunavison-raises-funds-launches-product/. 
  17. ↑ "Why analytics is the 'secret sauce' of startup success". https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-analytics-secret-sauce-startup-success. 
  18. ↑ "Company offers loans on earning potential". https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2020/02/company-offers-loans-on-earning-potential. 
  19. ↑ "X1 Card is a credit card based on your income, not your credit score". 17 September 2020. https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/17/x1-card-is-a-credit-card-based-on-your-income-not-your-credit-score/. 





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