Vinith Misra: Machines need an algorithm for humor. This is what it looks like.

Vinith Misra, of IBM’s Watson Group, boasts research interests from knowledge graph prediction and The Lord of the Rings analytics to data-driven compression and theoretic models. Recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship, National Science and Defense Graduate Fellowship and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize, he is a member of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” (2015) and consults on HBO’s Silicon Valley. Vinith holds a Ph.D. from Stanford’s Information Systems Lab and an S.B. and M.Eng. from MIT.

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