Siddharth Batra

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]

Siddharth Batra
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

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". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  2. "X1 Card Raises $12 Million In Funding Round Led By Spark Capital". pymnts.com. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  3. "The X1 Credit Card: A Unique Option for Younger Consumers". evergreenpodcasts.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  4. "The new no-fee X1 Card offers higher credit limits and perks that appeal to younger cardholders". cnbc.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  5. "The X1 Credit Card raises the bar with security and rewards". cnet.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  6. "DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY". www.jiit.ac.in. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  7. Ng, Andrew. "Curriculum Vitae--Andrew Y. Ng" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  8. "STAIR: STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot". stair.stanford.edu/. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  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. ieeexplore.ieee.org. pp. 2816–2822. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152750. ISBN 978-1-4244-2788-8. S2CID 6230559. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  10. "Energy Disaggregation via Discriminative Sparse Coding". papers.nips.cc. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  11. "Systems, methods and devices for augmenting video content". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  12. "Extreme makeover: computer science edition". news.stanford.edu. 12 November 2008. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  13. "Embed Ads In User-Generated Videos With ZunaVision". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  14. "Embedding video ads within video". abc7ny.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  15. "The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check". forbes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  16. "Zunavison Raises Funds, Launches Product". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  17. "Why analytics is the 'secret sauce' of startup success". mitsloan.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  18. "Company offers loans on earning potential". thedartmouth.com. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  19. "X1 Card is a credit card based on your income, not your credit score". techcrunch.com. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 2022-02-20.


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