Summary
Saahil Jain is a technology leader and machine learning researcher with a decade of experience, currently serving as CTO at You.com where he leads search and AI initiatives. He bridges cutting-edge research and product delivery, having progressed from founding engineer to Head of AI while shipping production search systems. As a graduate researcher in the Stanford ML Group under Andrew Ng, Saahil published first-author work in NeurIPS, EMNLP and CHIL and helped coin and shape the early "foundation models" conversation via Stanford’s CRFM. His open-source releases—datasets, models, and labeling tools like RadGraph and CheXbert—have been adopted by academic labs and hospitals, demonstrating a real-world impact on medical AI. Previously he worked in product at Microsoft on Outlook and did cross-institutional biomedical data research at Columbia, giving him rare fluency across engineering, product, and clinical research. Based in New York, he combines academic rigor with product instincts to democratize AI in healthcare and consumer search.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Economics at Columbia University
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Hindi