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2022

Founder

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2022

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Ragavan Thurairatnam

Ragavan Thurairatnam leads Dessa, Block’s AI research lab developing speech-native conversational models. He co-founded the original Dessa, previously called DeepLearni.ng, after founding Aerial Sense and Phashtag, and is an adjunct lecturer in biostatistics at the University of Toronto.

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Based in: Toronto
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Block

Until Present

Dessa Lead

University of Toronto

Apr 2019 — Present

Adjunct Lecturer, Biostatistics

Dessa

Jun 2015 — Present

Co-founder and Head of Machine Learning

Founded as DeepLearni.ng; acquired by Square in 2020. Now leads a new Dessa AI research lab at Block.

Aerial Sense

Oct 2014 — May 2015

Co-founder

Phashtag

Jan 2013 — Sep 2014

Co-founder

BlackBerry

May 2011 — Aug 2012

Software Developer

York University's Lassonde School of Engineering

Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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