Srinija Srinivasan

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Srinija Srinivasan was hired in 1995 as the fifth employee of Yahoo! by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo to "organize the content." [1] [2] Srinivasan left Yahoo! in 2010 while serving as a vice-president and editor-in-chief. [3] Srinivasan co-founded music start-up, Loove. [4]

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Early life and education

Srinivasan holds a B.S degree, 1993, from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems. [2] In 2000, Srinivasan became a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and was also a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. [2] In 2010, she was appointed to the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. [2]

Career in technology

Yahoo

Srinivasan was hired in 1995 as the fifth employee of Yahoo! by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo to "organize the content." [1] [2] She left Yahoo! in 2010 while serving as a vice-president and editor-in-chief. [3]

Before coming to Yahoo!, she worked on the Cyc Project, an artificial intelligence project to create a database of human commonsense knowledge.

Public service

In 2010, Srinivasan was appointed by United States President Obama to the United States Commission on Presidential Scholars, a federal program to commemorate the achievement of distinguished graduating high school students. [3]

She was elected to Stanford University's board of trustees in 2014. [2]

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