A leader who combines technical excellence, problem solving and strategic thinking to align engineering goals & objectives with company mission to move forward vigorously while building consensus. Building ML, data and engineering teams to turn data into information; information into knowledge and insights; and valuable, actionable insights into better strategies. == Experience & Recognition == • Public Speaker • Startup Advisor • Multiple Hackathons Winner • Built & Led Teams to Success • Several Professional & Academic Awards == Interests == • New Product & Innovation Engineering • Machine Learning Applications • Data Science • Health Tech • Self-Driving Cars • Passion for Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship === Open Source === == Google Code: Software + Hardware Projects == 1.  Tangible Images – Images that you can Touch & Feel 2. Air Mouse – Accelerometer based Human Computer Interface 3.  MindSpace – Hacking Microsoft Kinect to build Motion Adaptive 3D Display Device 4. Video Codec Research: Fast Diamond Search – Block Based Motion Estimation & Compensation 5. ECG Synthesizer – Tunable, MultiLead ECG Synthesizer to Train Doctors & Test BioMedical Algos Hosted: https://code.google.com/u/manavkataria/ == GitHub: Web & Mobile Projects == 1.  TalkLocal – Location Based Social Network 2.  Atlas – Real-Time, Multiplayer, Word Chain Game based on Places of the world 3.  Gist Inbox – Summarize Your Email Overload | Won Best Email Hack #Hack TX 4.  JmblFrnd – Photo Memory & Jumble Game, User Stats | #FacebookWorldHack 5.  FriendCircle – Personalization Heuristics to Rank and Cluster Friends | Won #YahooHackU 6. Self Driving Car – Computer Vision & Deep Learning Based Lane Detection, Vehicle Tracking & Control Hosted: https://github.com/manavkataria/