Chaki develops and ships technology products that serve millions, driven by user-centered design and data insights. Currently, he is CTO of Forge (next-gen trades and construction workforce) and applying a range of enabling technolgies (e.g., AI, CV, 3D, AR). Earlier, he spent 8+ years at Viacom (now Paramount) as the SVP Product: led MTV + VH1 to launch 15 industry-first video streaming apps on  in just 2 years (early versions of Paramount+ today), with combined 500M+ video streams per year and helped 2.5X revenue. He also led redesigns of  VMA + MTV News with data science to cement Top 10 spots among entertainment properties (e.g., 40M+ uniques). Chaki was then appointed by Viacom CXOs to be the first GM Innovations and founded two new business units, including Viacom NEXT - an VR + AR studio that shipped over 10 projects (on Steam + iOS stores, premiered at SundanceSXSW,  the Obama White House and won Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and Webby) in just over a year and a half. Right out of college, Chaki co-founded and boostrapped Interactive Constructs, an edtech engineering company that powered top products such as Read 180 for publishers like Scholastic + Harcourt via multi-million dollar licensing of its learning platform and was successfully acquired ($13M+ ARR with 65 employees). Chaki lived a parallel academic life: did research on distributed systems (sensor / cloud / grid computing and mechanism design) at Harvard (PhD + SM in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Margo Seltzer and Prof. David Parkes) and  augmented interfaces at MIT Media Lab. He also holds degrees from MIT Sloan and Northeastern (BS in CS). 

Academic Publications
PhD Thesis: Online Mechanism and Virtual Currency Design | My Publications on Google Scholar 

CertificatesGoogle Analytics 4 | Google: Looker | The Trade DeskUdacity AI Nanodegree | Coursera Machine Learning | MIT Social Network Data and Networks | Stanford d.School Bootcamp | Cooper Visual Interface Design

Advisory Board | Entrepreneur-in-Residence | Sponsor recent/ex: MIT Martin Trust Center | Harvard iLab | NYC Media Lab | | MIT CSAIL | Columbia Tech Ventures | TribalScale | Spatial.is | HKDI


Speaker Decks

Some Talks on YouTube
Exploring Future Reality | Another One | AR in ActionMayo Clinic Transform 
 
Some Press Coverage
AdWeek | Rolling Stone | VR Focus

Events
past events (* speaker): ACM SATIS Summer School on Advanced Topics in Systems | ODSC East | MIT Biz of Blockchain | _Underscore.vc Blockchain | MIT Bitcoin Expo| AI & Future of Work (MIT) | TakeOver VR/AR Panel* | AWE Expo | LDV Vision | Media Summit NYC* | AR in Action* | Exploring Future Reality*

Fun FactsI am lucky to have taken classes taught by many great academics including: Tim Berners-Lee | Al Roth | Robert Merton |David Clark | Nancy Lynch | Hiroshi Iishi

Connect
    | |   | name plus “fy” @ gmail

Inspirations
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt