Kinjal Basu
Co-Founder at Aliveo AI
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKinjal Basu is a data-driven AI leader and founder with eight years of industry experience, currently co-founding Aliveo AI to build a data copilot that accelerates marketing and growth decisions. Previously a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, Kinjal led Responsible AI efforts across fairness, explainability, and privacy, and contributed foundational work in causal inference and large-scale optimization for recommendation systems. He blends deep academic training—a PhD in Statistics from Stanford and advanced degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute—with hands-on production engineering at scale. Based in Austin, Kinjal pairs research rigor with product focus, turning statistical methods into deployable systems that address real-world bias and interpretability challenges. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained trajectory from research intern to technical lead, signaling both curiosity and the operational chops to ship complex ML solutions.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M. Stat Statistics, M. Stat Statistics at Indian Statistical Institute, KolkataISC, ISC at St. Joseph's CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Statistics at Stanford University
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (18)
decomposition9
lift9
linkedin8
solver8
fairness-ml8
measurement8
optimization-methods8
mixed-integer-programming7
spark7
scala7
machine-learning7
scalable7
optimization6
large-scale6
apache-spark6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
basukinjal/photon-ml
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 days
scalabledata-sciencemachine-learningapachespark
linkedin/DuaLip
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
DuaLip: Dual Decomposition based Linear Program Solver
Contributions:6 reviews, 12 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
optimization-methodsdecompositionoptimizationsolverdual
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