Anil Kamath is a web and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder of eBoodle.com and of Efficient Frontier. Kamath holds the patent on use of modern portfolio theory to the field of online advertising.[1]
Anil Kamath | |
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| Born | 29 December 1967 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | IIT Bombay, Stanford University |
| Occupation(s) | Web and technology entrepreneur |
| Known for | Efficient Frontier (company) |
Personal life and education edit
Originally from Bombay, India, Kamath has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. He completed his schooling from St. Pauls High School Dadar, Bombay and his junior college education from D.G. Ruparel College, Bombay.
Career edit
Kamath worked at Bell Labs and did his PhD in the area of Mathematical optimization.[2] Kamath used his PhD work in the area of optimization to build quantitative models for program trading at the hedge fund of D. E. Shaw & Co. Kamath later started Efficient Frontier (company) and applied the same portfolio optimization techniques to the area of online advertising.[3] Kamath headed the algorithms and optimization work at Efficient Frontier until its acquisition by Adobe Systems.[4] At Adobe, Anil Kamath runs the data science and machine learning group[5][6] and is responsible for Adobe's data science collaborations with universities and Adobe's digital marketing research awards program[7]
Before Efficient Frontier, Kamath founded eBoodle.com,[8] an ecommerce company providing comparison shopping and digital wallet services, that was acquired by Bizrate (Shopzilla).[9] At Bizrate, Kamath developed a contextual advertising product.[10]
References edit
- ^ "Method and apparatus for position bidding".
- ^ "Publications of Anil Kamath".
- ^ "Anil Kamath talks about Portfolio Based Bid Management". Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ "Adobe to Acquire Efficient Frontier, Leading Digital Ad Buying and Optimization Platform". Archived from the original on 1 February 2012.
- ^ "Adobe and IBM are Rolling Out More Artificial Intelligence Tools for Brands".
- ^ "Adobe launches a super-cloud to manage customer experience". 22 March 2017.
- ^ "Adobe Offers New Round of Grants For Data Science Research". Forbes.
- ^ "Eboodle and Google team up to deliver powerful online shopping assistant".
- ^ "Bizrate.com to acquire Eboodle.com". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ "Systems and methods for automatic identification and hyperlinking".