We're pleased to announce that Susmita Ghose, Co-Founder and Head of AI at Anoki, has been named among the honorees in the first 100 Women in AI awards celebrating foundational leaders and contributors at the helm of the breakthroughs shaping how the world engages with AI. Created by Flybridge and XFactor Ventures, this recognition celebrates Susmita's pioneering contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, as well as her leadership in transforming Connected TV (CTV) advertising through the multimodal, expert-model AI systems core to Anoki’s solutions.

As detailed in our origin story post, Anoki’s founding team set out with the vision to harness AI's power to create truly unique, deeply personal CTV experiences. Susmita's recognition as a 100 Women in AI honoree serves as yet one more validation that our team is making meaningful progress toward this ambitious goal.

With over 20 years of experience building cutting-edge products at the intersection of machine learning and business impact, Susmita has been instrumental in developing Anoki's ContextIQ, CTV's first end-to-end, multimodal AI platform for contextual video intelligence. ContextIQ represents a significant advancement in how advertisers can connect with viewers while ensuring brand safety and suitability. By analyzing video content using multimodal AI that processes multiple elements of a scene simultaneously - including video, audio, sentiment, objects, music and more - the platform enables brands and advertisers to place ads in the right moments and do so at a scale that was not possible until very recently.

Before co-founding Anoki, Susmita served as Head of Data Science at Alphonso (later LG Ad Solutions), where she led the development of cutting-edge technologies, including a proprietary ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) fingerprinting technique and a full-stack voice AI system. She has also led high-impact ML and data science teams at Microsoft and Oracle, driving innovation across product and research.

The 100 Women in AI recognition highlights not only Susmita's individual achievements but also the broader impact of Anoki's mission to make the CTV ecosystem better for viewers, advertisers and publishers alike through multimodal AI. For those interested in going deeper, here are a few resources that offer more information on the technical aspects of the work from Susmita and her team, as well as multimodal AI:

The Multimodal Edge in Video Understanding with Anoki ContextIQ

ContextIQ Benchmarking: Validation Datasets and Performance Metrics

ContextIQ: A Multimodal Video Understanding and Retrieval System for Contextual Advertising