Anil Kamath
| Anil Kamath | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bombay |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Web and technology entrepreneur |
| Known for | Efficient Frontier (company) |
Anil Kamath is a web and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder of eBoodle.com and of Efficient Frontier. Kamath holds the patent on use of modern portfolio theory to the field of online advertising.[1]
Personal life and education
Originally from Bombay, India, Kamath has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Bombay.
Career
Kamath worked at Bell Labs and did his PhD in the area of Mathematical optimization.[2] Kamath used his PhD work in the area of optimization to build quantitative models for program trading at the hedge fund of D. E. Shaw & Co. Kamath later started Efficient Frontier (company) and applied the same portfolio optimization techniques to the area of online advertising.[3] Kamath headed the algorithms and optimization work at Efficient Frontier until its acquisition by Adobe Systems.[4] At Adobe, Anil Kamath runs the data science group and is responsible for Adobe's data science collaborations with universities and Adobe's digital marketing research awards program.[5]
Before Efficient Frontier, Kamath founded eBoodle.com,[6] an ecommerce company providing comparison shopping and digital wallet services, that was acquired by Bizrate (Shopzilla).[7] At Bizrate, Kamath developed a contextual advertising product.[8]
References
- ↑ "Method and apparatus for position bidding".
- ↑ "Publications of Anil Kamath".
- ↑ "Anil Kamath talks about Portfolio Based Bid Management".
- ↑ "Adobe to Acquire Efficient Frontier, Leading Digital Ad Buying and Optimization Platform".
- ↑ "Adobe Offers New Round Of Grants For Data Science Research".
- ↑ "Eboodle and Google team up to deliver powerful online shopping assistant".
- ↑ "Bizrate.com to acquire Eboodle.com".
- ↑ "Systems and methods for automatic identification and hyperlinking".