Varun Chatterji

Chief Software Architect, Seventh Sense Artificial Intelligence Private Limited.

Singapore

Varun Chatterji is an NUS alumnus (2005) and serial entrepreneur. His first startup tenCube was a pioneer in the field of mobile security and was acquired by McAfee in 2010. Currently, he's a co-founder at his third startup - Seventh Sense AI. Seventh Sense focuses on Computer Vision at the edge - on small, low power, devices. Varun is passionate about the transformative potential of Deep Learning based Computer Vision, which can lead to advances in varied fields such as security and surveillance, medical imaging, retail, smart-cities etc.

Starting with Facial Recognition for defence and security use, Seventh Sense has garnered interest from investors such as CapVista - the strategic investment arm and fully-owned subsidiary of Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), a statutory board under Singapore’s Ministry of Defence, 500 startups, and more. As Chief Software Architect of Seventh Sense, Varun wears many hats and his work ranges from traditional software development, Machine Learning model training and deciding on technical strategy.