Anoubhav Agarwaal

Anoubhav Agarwaal is a Founding AI Engineer at Anoki, where he architects the multimodal systems powering ContextIQ, the company’s contextual video intelligence platform. His work focuses on large-scale machine learning pipelines for video understanding, retrieval, and generative AI, enabling advertisers to seamlessly align ads with what viewers are watching across Connected TV.

As a core contributor to Anoki’s infrastructure, Anoubhav has been instrumental in developing the platform's multimodal training pipelines, scene-level retrieval engines, and brand suitability models, which analyze video, audio, and sentiment across vast streaming libraries. He is currently expanding the platform's creative AI capabilities, leveraging generative models to produce hyper-personalized ads at scale. His innovations in the space have led to several patents in contextual advertising and generative ad creation. Additionally, Anoubhav is a first author on research presented at the IEEE/CVF WACV, demonstrating novel approaches to multimodal video retrieval.

Before joining Anoki, Anoubhav worked as a Data Scientist at Alphonso (acquired), where he developed Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) systems for millions of smart TVs. He holds a B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Madras and has been recognized with national engineering honors, including the James Dyson Award and the Accenture Innovation Challenge.

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