Sai Gaddam

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About Sai Gaddam

"Packed with insight and astonishing in scope this book offers an original perspective on thinking and consciousness." This is Kirkus Review's summary of JOURNEY OF THE MIND the general audience neuroscience book I have been working on for the last few years. It is out in stores on March 8th 2022. https://bit.ly/JourneyoftheMind I am also working on Giffie a product in the early education space. It is at the interesection of AI neuroscience and learning -- three intertwined topics that are dear to my heart. 2012-2020: I am the founder of Kernel Insights. This journey started when I happened to build a technology product (MakkhiChoose) while working on a non-fiction book (A Billion Wicked Thoughts). MakkhiChoose took off. After getting to the first 10K users I decided to get serious and build a team. Hired the first two and then all subsequent team members by crafting specific programming and data-related challenges and advertising them nationally on Facebook (back when it was still cheap). Got quite a few things wrong over the last couple of years but one we got right is hiring and I am super proud of the way we did this (http://puzzles.makkhichoose.com/unscramble). We've built several revenue generating products along the way and scaled some to a few lakh users (that's 100 000 for non-Indians). After an undergrad in engineering (IIT Madras) I went to grad school (Boston University) to study computational neuroscience. I did this after being profoundly inspired by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran's book Phantoms in the Brain. Two decades later the world has woken up to promise of biologically inspired neural networks in pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Data and a deep understanding of it will change our world (for the better). That's my key motivation when taking on new experiments and projects.