The acquisition of Marianas Labs, is a great event for 1PG.
I don't know the detailed IP Marianas holds, but their talent team joined 1PG, is a great asset.
Marianas Labs world-class team to join 1-Page, including a former Yahoo! CTO, a Professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, a former engineering lead at Baidu, and a former Yahoo! and Microsoft engineer.
Marianas Labs, an innovator in large scale data processing, data science and machine learning.
Marianas Labs is also an innovator in Machine Learning, that is an very interesting topic, as remind me of BrainChip.
Marianas Labs brings considerable intellectual property to 1-Page, alongside a team of recognised data science experts, collectively with over 100 years of experience
developing artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analysis systems.
“We at Marianas Labs are excited about the opportunity of applying our IP and toolkits to 1-Page’s large database of prospective talent, in order to deliver the right recruiting and HR solutions to large enterprise clients,” said Alex Smola, CEO of Marianas Labs.
Marianas Labs Capabilities and Team Marianas Labs’ suite of algorithms will reduce 1-Page’s cost of data processing and analysis. The team has developed algorithms that can sample interactions and derive inferences from hundreds of data sources across the public web, in significantly reduced timelines.
Marianas Labs brings to 1-Page a deep learning platform, that will be integrated across the company’s products. The Marianas Labs platform will further establish 1-Page as a leading candidate intelligence and hiring technology company in the industry.
Ashfaq Munshi - Former CTO of Yahoo! Now CTO of 1PG
Mr Munshi has been the CEO of several private and public companies, and has also
served on both private and public boards. His expertise runs the gamut of startups,
public companies, spin-outs, take-privates and acquisitions. Most recently Mr Munshi
sold Graphite Systems, a “flash as memory” company, to EMC. He was the CTO of
Yahoo! and has also been a research staff member at IBM Research.
His technical expertise includes building silicon, systems, operating systems, compilers,
databases, user interfaces, mobile analytics and large-scale analytics systems.
Mr Munshi received his undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics at Harvard
University, was a PhD graduate student at Brown University, and is an alumnus of the
Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Alexander Smola joins 1-Page as Head of Data Science.
Four years at Yahoo Research
Two years at Google Research
Alex Smola studied physics at the University of Technology, Munich, the Universita degli Studi di Pavia and at AT&T Research in Holmdel. During this time he was at the Maximilianeum München and the Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia. In 1996 he received the Master degree at the University of Technology, Munich and in 1998 the Doctoral Degree in computer science at the University of Technology Berlin. Until 1999 he was a researcher at the IDA Group of the GMD Institute for Software Engineering and Computer Architecture in Berlin (now part of the Fraunhofer Geselschaft). After that, he worked as a Researcher and Group Leader at the Research School for Information Sciences and Engineering of the Australian National University. From 2004 onwards he worked as a Senior Principal Researcher and Program Leader at the Statistical Machine Learning Program at NICTA. From 2008 to 2012 he worked at Yahoo Research. In spring of 2012 he moved to Google Research to spend a wonderful year in Mountain View. He joined the Machine Learning Department of CMU as full professor in 2013. He is co-founder and CEO of Marianas Labs.