Compass Labs Announces Devavrat Shah as New Advisor
(firmenpresse) - SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/21/13 -- Compass Labs, the leading social marketing platform powering ads and audience intelligence, today announced that Devavrat Shah, currently a Jamieson career development associate Professor with the department of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, where he has been teaching since 2005, has joined their Advisory Board. Mr. Shah is a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and Operations Research Center (ORC). His research focus is on complex networks analysis and large-scale statistical inference, recently developing an hours before Twitter's own algorithm, providing a new technique for analyzing fluctuations in data over time.
Shah was awarded the first for his work on network scheduling algorithms. He received the which is given to a young researcher for outstanding contributions to applied probability and is currently an associate editor of Operations Research, Information Theory Transactions and Queueing Systems. Shah's work has received coverage in popular press including New York Times, Forbes, TechReview, Gigaom and Reddit.
"We are delighted to have Devavrat Shah join our advisory board," said Compass Labs CEO Dilip Venkatachari. "As we continue momentum around our social data intelligence strategy, providing a comprehensive solution for brands by tying social listening and real-time audience intelligence to guide paid, owned and earned media strategies, Devavrat's extensive experience as a data scientist will be invaluable. We're looking forward to working with our customers and partners to bring the latest advances in data science and to provide high value marketing and advertising solutions. Compass Labs relies on the unique interactivity of social media and public social data to understand audiences and how best to deliver the right ad to the right person at the right time."
Shah received his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1999 with the Presidents of India Gold Medal -- awarded to the best graduating student across all engineering disciplines. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2004, and his doctoral thesis titled "Randomization and Heavy Traffic Theory: New Approaches for Switch Scheduling Algorithms" was completed under supervision of His thesis was selected as the winner of the George B. Dantzig best dissertation award from INFORMS in 2005.
"I'm fortunate to be able to join a team of such esteemed thought leaders and influencers and am looking forward to leveraging my expertise and experiences with algorithms in helping Compass Labs build strategic social technologies, partnerships and grow their business," said Shah.
Compass Labs' unique technology uses natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive analytics to deliver superior performance, mapping social media strategies to people's public self-expression across Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. To sign up for a free 14 day trial of the Compass Labs CLIQ Social Intelligence platform and instantly get access to rich brand, audience and content intelligence to guide owned, earned and paid social media strategies, please visit:
Compass Labs applies science to social media marketing with two platform solutions for brands and agencies: CLIQ Ads Manager and CLIQ Social Intelligence. CLIQ Ads Manager takes the guesswork out of social media advertising and replaces it with sophisticated campaign management tools, analytics and insights. CLIQ Social Intelligence enables marketers to monitor and measure their social presence, while gaining rich audience and content intelligence to guide owned, earned and paid media strategies. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Compass Labs was founded in 2009 by industry veterans and scientists. Investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Presidio Ventures, Triple Point Capital, Jim Clark and others. For more information, please visit , follow (at)compasslabs on Twitter or like us on Facebook at .
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