Summary
Ashish Bansal is a seasoned AI and machine learning leader and founder with nearly two decades of technology experience, currently building StarSpark.AI to give every student a personal AI learning companion by blending AI, neuroscience, and psychology. He optimizes ML performance and hardware-software co-design, having led Core ML initiatives at Google and previously built large-scale recommendation systems at Twitch and Twitter. Ashish combines startup grit—co-founding GALE Partners and multiple ventures—with enterprise leadership as a former Senior Director of Data Science at Capital One. He is the author of Advanced Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow 2 and co-founded a global IIT AI forum that now connects over 1,200 members. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with an MBA from Kellogg and a B.Tech from IIT BHU, he balances deep technical craft with product and organizational leadership—and as an unexpected personal pursuit, aims to become a Kung Fu master.
7 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Kellogg School of Management
B. Tech Electronics Engg., B. Tech Electronics Engg. at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
MBA Marketing, MBA Marketing at Schulich School of Business - York University