About

Dhara Prashant Maurice is a highly skilled tech entrepreneur and machine perception expert with over 12 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as a Founder in Residence at Entrepreneur First, where he is building the next generation of AI-based 4D perception systems that can give vision to robots. Dhara has a strong background in mechanical engineering, having earned his Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Madras in 2014. He also has extensive experience in AI, deep learning, mobile development, recommendation systems, object detection, OpenCV, designer tools, Kubernetes, ML, neural networks, Kafka, and search. Prior to his current role, Dhara co-founded and served as CTO at Friendly Brands Club, where he was responsible for developing the company's technology and product offerings. He also worked as a Senior Deep Learning Engineer at Icecream Labs, where he built neural networks and architected ecosystems for them to survive. Some of his notable achievements include patent-pending work on nutrition table segmentation and decoding using StructureNets, classification of e-commerce images for around 5000 categories using ResNets, and constructing a recipe-ingredient-product knowledge graph from 200,000+ recipes. Dhara is highly skilled in building and integrating machine learning models, open-source software, and graph databases into production pipelines. He has also developed a continuous learning labeling tool from scratch, which he has integrated with models, elastic, and statistics tools to augment curation. Overall, Dhara is a highly accomplished machine perception expert and tech entrepreneur with a proven track record of building innovative products and solutions.