Kunal Punera Email & Phone Number

Right now, I am founder of a startup where we are building AI-powered signals to help sales reps find warm leads and close deals faster. We are part of the W23 batch of YC. Most recently, I was Director of AI at LinkedIn where I built and ran 3 AI/Data teams that owned all ML-powered features in LinkedIn Recruiter, Premium, and Learning products; accounting for multi-billion dollars in annual revenue for LinkedIn. Before that as an Engineering Manager at Google, I hired and grew 3 engineering teams that were responsible for all the social features of Android Messages. In 2014, co-founded and was the CTO of Bento Labs, where we are working on building an AI-enabled OS for Android devices. There I recruited and grew a team of talented engineers from RelateIQ, Coursera, and VMware, and built and launched our first product, Scout Launcher, which was highly rated on the Android Play store (> 4.5 stars) and used for > 30 mins each day by its users. In 2012, I joined RelateIQ as the 4th engineer, where I led the Data Products Engineering team that built data products that mine and deliver relationship intelligence within our app; for example, automated suggestions to follow-up with contacts. I used included various kinds of unsupervised analysis, NLP, some supervised learning, etc.I was a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research where I worked on a wide-array of topics like web search, computational advertising, behavioral targeting, online abuse prevention, etc. I got my PhD at Univ. of Texas at Austin in the area of Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Algorithms. A partial list of my academic work can be found at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=kunal+punera

Listed skills include Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Text Mining, and 23 others.

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  The University Of Texas At Austin

  Web Mining