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Harikrishna Prabhu (Rick)

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Founder & CEO, Slooze
Helping Manufacturers accelerate Design to Delivery using AI
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About

Harikrishna Prabhu (Rick) is the Founder and CEO of Slooze, a Coimbatore-based company he started in 2024 that builds an AI-native procurement and supply chain platform for manufacturers and OEMs. Before Slooze, Rick was a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at CHAOS Industries and a founding member at Cowbell, and he worked in product and engineering at Infinite Analytics. He is now focused on helping manufacturers move faster from design to delivery, with work across the Asia Pacific region.

Categories

AI SoftwareB2BLogistics/SCMERP

Skills

Machine LearningComputer Vision

Experience

Building Slooze! Fight On ✌️
Slooze logo
Founder & CEO · Slooze
Sep 2024 – PresentCurrent
CHAOS Industries logo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer · CHAOS Industries
Dec 2023 – Mar 2024
CI
Organization Ambassador · Cowbell Inc
Aug 2022 – Apr 2023
University of California, Riverside logo
Board Advisor · University of California, Riverside
Feb 2022 – Oct 2022
CI
Founding Member ( Data Science & Machine Learning) · Cowbell Inc
Jul 2019 – Nov 2023
Infinite Analytics logo
Product & Engineering - AI/ML (CO-OP) · Infinite Analytics
Jan 2019 – Jul 2019
USC Institute for Creative Technologies (U.S.Army Research Laboratory) logo
Graduate Research Assistant (Multimodal Data Fusion Based Machine Learning) · USC Institute for Creative Technologies (U.S.Army Research Laboratory)
Aug 2018 – Jan 2019
vuSearch logo
Computer Vision Engineer (Intern) · vuSearch
Jul 2018 – Aug 2018
Imported from LinkedIn.

Education

University of Southern California logo
University of Southern California
Masters, Electronics Engineering · 2017 – 2019
Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology logo
Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology
Bachelors, Electronics Engineering · 2013 – 2017
Sboa Matriculation and Higher Secondary School logo
Sboa Matriculation and Higher Secondary School
Computer Science · 1999 – 2013

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AI in Manufacturing ! [slooze.xyz]
Introductions · Oct 6 · ▲ 0 · 0 comments