Akshaj Jain

Akshaj is an incoming graduate student in Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently the founder/CEO of Lethical.AI, which is a company focused on propagating ethical ML/AI. He had previously founded Hermez, which was an application to automate checkout in grocery stores. Previously, he was the head of business operations and corporate social responsibility, Chief of Staff, and also a deep learning researcher at Univ.AI. He was also a research assistant to Dr. Pavlos Protopapas at Harvard University. He had conducted research in collaboration with Indiana University, Bloomington to automate medical processes in Ophthalmic Imaging using machine learning algorithms. He had also served short stints Cisco, PwC and several Startups. He is keen on increasing the scope of AI usage across the world, especially for projects focused on societal impact. He is interested in making an impact on the society, which, he believes can be impacted hugely by the new advancements in Artificial Intelligence. He is also a keen supporter of achieving UNSDGs and also runs his own group to act on UNSDGs. He is also a member of MIT Technology Review's Global Panel.