FORA.tv Speaker - Subutai Ahmad

Subutai Ahmad is VP of Engineering at Numenta, a company that is designing computer technology based on the human neocortex. Prior to Numenta, as VP Engineering at YesVideo, he helped grow YesVideo from a three-person start-up to a leader in automated digital media authoring. YesVideo's real time video analysis systems have been deployed internationally on a variety of platforms: From large scale distributed clusters to embedded customer set-top boxes. In 1997, he co-founded ePlanet Interactive, a spin-off from Interval Research. ePlanet created the IntelPlay Me2Cam, the first computer vision product developed for consumers.

Ahmad holds an AB in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.