Vijay Krishnan

Founder & CTO at Turing

Palo Alto, California, United States

About Vijay Krishnan

Vijay Krishnan is Founder & CTO at Turing. Location: Palo Alto, California, United States.

. Founder & CTO, at Turing.com. Turing.com enables foundation model companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, and many others to improve their capabilities in areas such as reasoning, coding, function calling, multimodality, factuality, safety, frontier STEM knowledge and more through expert human data for Evals, SFT, RLHF, and DPO. Turing also helps large enterprises like Pepsi, Disney, and J&J strategize and execute various AI solutions to create outsized business value. Turing achieves both these through its talent pool of over 3 million software developers, data scientists, and other knowledge workers spanning 100+ countries, all automatically vetted through 100+ tests of skills and expertise. Founded in 2018, Turing became a unicorn in 2021. • Earlier, Founder & CTO of Rover, acquired by Revcontent where I was SVP of Data Science. • 20 years experience applying Machine Learning toward problems in text categorization, personalized search, personalized content recommendations, CTR prediction, eCPM maximization for personalized and contextual ad targeting, Lead Scoring/Growth Marketing, matching developers to jobs and optimization of other business objectives. • Authored papers related to Machine Learning, Web Search, Semantic Search, Entity extraction, Data Mining and NLP cited 800+ times. • Computer Science at IIT Bombay, Stanford University.

Skills

  • Algorithms
  • Software Project Management
  • Machine Learning

Additional experience

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    Foundation Capital

    November 2017 – March 2018

Education

  • Master of Science (M.S.), Stanford University
  • M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay