Determined to develop products that simplify processes at the workplace
At MindStaq, we develop truly mindful productivity-enhancing technology concepts, system designs, and user-friendly services by focusing on the ways people actually think, perform, and communicate. As a team with varied backgrounds, we harness our individual perspectives in order to create innovative products that are designed to fit how people live and work – now, and in the future.
Leadership
Abu Moniruzzaman
Co-founder & CEO
- Successful entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience working with computer technologies.
- Built a multi-million-dollar Microsoft based technology business with fortune 500 customers.
- Developed a strong team of highly talented and reputable engineers in this industry.
- Bachelor’s in computer science and Masters in Management
- UC Berkeley Certificate of Excellence in Senior Executive Leadership for Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Program
Sai Prakash
Co-founder & CTO
- 20+ years of experience in technology leadership, software development, design, and implementation positions with fortune 500 companies
- Worked for Microsoft as a technology specialist for various Fortune 500 companies.
- Worked for Thomson Reuters as head of content automation, innovation, and platform strategy.
- Bachelor’s in computer science/mathematics and Masters in Computer Science/Mathematics with specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Dibyajyoti Das
Director – Artificial Intelligence
- “Infusing AI into Project Management” – This is DJ’s current passion. Teaming up with Abu and Sai, to set up MindStaq India Private Limited, was a natural extension of the various entrepreneurial ventures he has been exploring since 2017.
- DJ has a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. A chance phone call nudged him from Academics into the applied field of Mobile Robotics in 2009. Since then, he has been involved in leading and delivering several successful product development initiatives and customer projects in the domain of Computer Vision, Self-Driving vehicles, Remote Asset Monitoring, Access Control.
Samer Ghanem
Chief Security Officer
- Samer is an accomplished information cyber security leader with a proven record in information security, risk management, enterprise architecture, and technology management. Currently, Samer is working with a collection of critical infrastructure clients to ensure cyber resiliency. Samer had global leadership roles with AGT international, BMW Group, United Nations among many others. Samer earned his MS in Technology Management from Columbia University.
Siddharth Krishnan
Advisor – Artificial Intelligence
- Dr. Siddharth Krishnan is a faculty member (tenure-track) at UNC Charlotte. His research develops applied artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve problems arising from large interconnected systems. The primary focus of his research is in modeling complex, richly-labeled relational structures, graphs, and networks for systems at all scales, from interactions of proteins in a cell to interactions between humans in a society. His work has been published in several AI & data science venues like WSDM, WebSci, AAAI, TPAMI, TKDD, etc. He also currently advises three AI startups in ed tech, supply chain logistics, and fin tech. Siddharth is part of the Technical Program Committee of leading Artificial Intelligence conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, SIGKDD, ACM Web Search and Data Mining, WebSci, WebConf, etc. and serves as a frequent reviewer for Nature, PLoS One, Transactions of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Transactions of Knowledge Discovery and Data, IEEE Access, and several other top tier research venues/publications. His work has been published in leading academic venues and covered across the media like The Washington Post. Siddharth received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.