About

Bharath Kumar Mohan is the CEO of Sensara, a company that uses AI and ML to enhance the TV viewing experience for millions of households every day. With over 15 years of experience in building information discovery products, he is passionate about search and information discovery. Bharath has been involved in several exciting efforts, including Pugmarks.me, a contextual content discovery product based on browsing history and mobile app usage; Dhiti, a content recommendation engine for publishers; Hivefire, focused crawlers based on relevance feedback; and Google, where he worked on article ranking, document clustering, and novelty detection on Google News. He also completed a PhD on mining evolving collaboration networks at IISc, where he focused on finding nurturers among computer science researchers. Bharath's specialties include information retrieval, data mining, text mining, building industrial quality search systems, startups, and hiring. He has worked with several companies, including insieve, where he was co-founder and CEO, leading a team of 10 people to explore market avenues and define the product. He also co-founded Dhiti, which was a content recommender widget for publishers, serving about 8M page views a month at its peak. Bharath's education history includes a PhD in computer science from IISc, an MSc(Engg) in computer science from IISc, and a B.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Mysore. He also attended Vidya Vardhaka Sangha. Bharath's tech stack includes search, mobile, information retrieval, AI, web, ML, Android, and Javascript. With 16.53 years of relevant experience, Bharath is a seasoned professional who is dedicated to using technology to enhance people's lives.