Satya Nitta

Dr. Satya V. Nitta is currently the co-founder and CEO of Merlyn Mind, a venture backed AI company focused on developing domain specific AI platforms and assistants. He is a technologist and a business leader and has deep experience in launching major new initiatives that create significant technical and business impact. He was the former global head of the AI solutions for learning department at IBM Research which he founded. In the AI space, teams he has led and is currently leading have invented and developed technologies at the intersection of conversational systems, speech recognition and natural language understanding as well as AI hardware based edge devices. Earlier, as manager and technical leader of the Advanced Interconnect Technology department at the IBM Research, he led helped invent and develop many aspects of IBM’s silicon on-chip interconnect technologies with significant technical and business impact to several generations of IBM’s semiconductor technologies. Dr. Nitta received a PhD from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Chemical Engineering. He was named as the IEEE Ace “Innovator of the Year” and has won “Technology of the Year” awards from both IEEE Spectrum and IEEE ACE for his work on airgap based silicon interconnects. In 2016, he was named as one of the top 50 global movers and shakers in education technology by the World Innovation summit in Education. He has authored or co-authored over 40 publications and currently holds over 100 US patents.