Transcript of Commerce Famous episode 17, an interview with Niraj Aswani
Ben Marks:
Hey, everyone, welcome to the commerce famous podcast. I'm your host, Ben Marks, and with me today is a technical co founder CTO of Klevu, Niraj Aswani. Now, Niraj got his start at University of Sheffield in natural language processing, so I expect a lot of, especially AI and machine learning insights. So, welcome to the Commerce Famous podcast.
Niraj Aswani:
Thank you very much, Ben. It's my pleasure to be here. I've been hearing a lot about this podcast and it's great to be here. Thank you.
Ben Marks:
Well, mostly good things, I hope. So macedonia telegram screening far we haven't received too many complaints. So Klevu is a Finnish company, but you are at home in the UK, right?
Niraj Aswani:
Ben Marks:
And just sort of reading through your background now, folks, Klevu has been around for eleven years now, right?
Niraj Aswani:
Since 2013. Wow. Yeah.
Ben Marks:
And if my reading is correct, you got a start on Klevu. I mean, you co founded, this was sort of your. You got your doctorate at University of Sheffield and you went out and basically co founded this company. And I would say everyone probably in this business knows Klevu's name and knows what you do. How did that come about? Right, because by the way, folks, I should not bury the lead here. I have with me on the podcast the author of designing a general framework for text alignment case studies with two south asian languages. So this was your thesis, right? This was your doctoral thesis in university. How did you get from there into.