Ashish Bhatia

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Ashish Bhatia is a US-based Indian engineer with specializations in mobile security and social media, who developed Google's predictive response generation system. He is also an angel investor, public speaker and advocate for startups [1] [2]

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Education

Bhatia earned a bachelor's degree in engineering in 2009 and a master's degree in computer architecture in 2011, both from IIT Kanpur. [3]

Career

He worked at Morta Security, a startup that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2013. He has also worked as a software engineer at WhatsApp, on the Messenger team at Facebook, and the emerging markets team at Instagram. [4]

At Google, Bhatia was a founder member in 2010 of Google's Android app scanning team, known as Google Bouncer, [4] and developed the predictive response generation system for personal responses. [5] [6] [7] [8]

As of 2019, he worked at a cryptocurrency startup while maintaining a GitHub repository on Android security. [4] He has published on his blog threats such as the Facebook "April Fools Prank". [9]

Publications

Patents

Related Research Articles

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References

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  2. "Ashish Bhatia". youngStartup Ventures. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  3. "Ashish Bhatia: Google Engineering Department". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  4. 1 2 3 "Ashish Bhatia - Angel Investor" (PDF). Private Investor Summit. Family Office Club. 2019-07-25. p. 11. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  5. "Google patents robot help for social media burnout". BBC News. 2013-11-22. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  6. "Google Patents Social Media 'Auto Responder' That Can Post Replies For You". Huffpost UK. 2014-01-25 [2013-11-25]. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  7. Jennifer Slegg (2013-11-27). "Google Wants to Write Your Social Media Messages For You". Search Engine Watch. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  8. Jillian D'Onfro (2013-11-22). "Google Wants To Write Your Tweets For You". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  9. Fahmida Y. Rashid (2011-04-07). "Facebook Bully Video Actually an XSS Exploit". eWEEK. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  10. US 8589407B2,"Automated generation of suggestions for personalized reactions in a social network",issued 2011-06-17
  11. US 8589407,Bhatia, Ashish,"Automated generation of suggestions for personalized reactions in a social network",issued 2013-11-19
  12. US 8875303B2,"Detecting pirated applications",issued 2012-08-02
  13. US 9015801B1,"Methods and systems for handling recovery messages",issued 2013-05-14