Madhu is responsible for developing Near's ambient intelligence platform and associated products. He leads the engineering and data science efforts at Near based out of Silicon Valley. He is a seasoned tech entrepreneur, a former academic, and has been building software and hardware for the past couple of decades. He has a proven track record of working on large scale data analysis, machine learning, text analysis, and decision-making models in a variety of domains including engineering design, product lifecycle management, online search and computational advertising. He is an alumnus of Carnegie-Mellon Univ., with interests in real-world applications of AI and Robotics. On the personal front, Madhu is a movie buff, loves travelling and playing a round of golf or two in his free time.