Madhusudan Therani

Madhu is responsible for developing Near’s ambient intelligence platform and associated products. He leads the engineering and data science efforts at Near based out of Silicon Valley.
He is a seasoned tech entrepreneur, a former academic, and has been building software and hardware for the past couple of decades. He has a proven track record of working on large scale data analysis, machine learning, text analysis, and decision-making models in a variety of domains including engineering design, product lifecycle management, online search and computational advertising. He is an alumnus of Carnegie-Mellon Univ., with interests in real-world applications of AI and Robotics.
On the personal front, Madhu is a movie buff, loves travelling and playing a round of golf or two in his free time.