Susmita Ghose

Susmita Ghose, PhD is Co-Founder and Head of AI at Anoki, where she leads the company’s AI strategy and the development of multimodal systems for large-scale video understanding. She is an AI leader with more than 20 years of experience building machine learning and data science systems that translate cutting-edge research into real-world impact. At Anoki, she led the creation of ContextIQ, an AI-native platform that combines video, audio, and semantic signals to generate scene-level intelligence for contextual advertising, helping reshape how advertising operates in the rapidly evolving Connected TV ecosystem.

Prior to co-founding Anoki, Susmita was Head of Data Science at Alphonso (later acquired by LG and now part of LG Ad Solutions), where she led innovations in automatic content recognition (ACR) and speech and audio intelligence for Connected TV. Earlier in her career, she held data science and research positions at Microsoft and Oracle, contributing to technologies such as Oracle’s Crystal Ball analytics platform, widely used by Fortune 500 companies.

Susmita holds a PhD in Software Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland and has recently been honored as one of the 100 Women in AI, recognizing her contributions to advancing applied artificial intelligence in media and advertising.