Ashutosh Saxena is the Founder and CEO of Caspar.AI, that builds AI-enabled homes for senior and luxury housing. Dr. Saxena received his Ph.D. (2009) in Computer Science from Stanford University with Andrew Ng. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. At Cornell, he founded RoboBrain, a joint venture between Stanford, Berkeley, Brown, and Cornell to develop a knowledge engine that allows robots to learn from internet videos and share their learnings in the physical world with each other. He has over 12,000 citations in the area of Artificial Intelligence, with numerous awards including: SF Business Times 40 Under 40 (2020), TR35 Innovator Award by MIT Technology Review (2018), Eight Innovators to Watch by Smithsonian Institution (2015), NSF Career Award (2013), Microsoft Faculty Fellow (2012), Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2011).

Caspar.AI honored for achievements in AI Technology for Real Estate CB Insights today named Caspar.AI to the fourth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world. Featured in CB Insights real-estate AI category, Caspar is reshaping the real estate industry to allow for smart, sustainable design that both improves the residents' living experience and reduces overall costs for property management. Real estate developers partner with Caspar to build differentiated smart properties, drive additional revenue, save costs, and enhance resident experience. "We are delighted to be awarded as the top AI company for real estate," said Dr. Ashutosh Saxena, Founder & CEO of Caspar.AI & Former Faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. "People spend two-thirds of their time at home. There is a massive opportunity for AI to reimagine how people live in their homes. Our Caspar Sense and Caspar Adapt technology, understand the resident activities and automatically adapts home to their preferences. "It's been remarkable to see the success of the companies named to the Artificial Intelligence 100 over the last four years.

BERLIN – Google has given reassurances that it won't make transcripts of speech data picked up by its Google Assistant system in the European Union for at least the next three months, a German data-protection authority said Thursday. The office of Johannes Caspar, who as Hamburg's commissioner for data protection acts as Germany's lead regulator of Google on privacy issues, said his authority received the assurance after opening proceedings against Google. Google acknowledged last month its contractors are able to listen to recordings of what people tell Google Assistant after some Dutch-language recordings were leaked. It says contractors listen to recordings to better understand language patterns and accents. Caspar's office said in a statement that Google told the Hamburg authority that transcripts of speech recordings are already suspended and won't take place for at least three months from Thursday.