Deepak Sekar

Dr. Deepak Sekar is one of the most prolific inventors in the world today, with 260 issued patents to his name.Motivated by his daughter's experience with online learning during COVID, he co-founded Prof Jim Inc., a 35 person company where he serves as the CEO. The company has invented AI that generates first drafts of slides, interactive video, homework and textbooks for educational applications. Studies indicate educational content can be created 15x faster with this technology, and at the same time, quality is almost always better. Prof Jim was recognized by HolonIQ as one of the most promising edtech companies in North America in 2023 and 2024. Its client list today includes several of the world's most prestigious brands in K-12, higher ed and workforce training. Prior to his journey with his kids' education, he got tired of cooking his food at home, and invented a robot that automatically made his dinner. That invention led to him founding and leading a startup called Chowbotics - which scaled to become the biggest food-making robot company in the world when it was acquired by Doordash. Chowbotics was recognized by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative companies. The New York Times named Chowbotics one of the food trends of 2019. Deepak received a B. Tech from IIT Madras, and a MS and PhD from Georgia Tech, all in engineering.