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Plasticity
Founded in 2016 · Co-Founder & CEO
Acquired in October, 2020
PhD at University of Pennsylvania
Research in Machine Learning, AI, and NLP
Advised by Chris Callison-Burch (est. 2025)
Y Combinator S17
Plasticity Inc.
YC AI
Kleiner Perkins Fellow
2016 KP Fellow at Remind Inc.
Google
Google Home / Nest Labs
M&T at University of Pennsylvania
Computer Science at Penn Engineering (B.S.E)
Management / Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Wharton (B.S.E)
Other Work
YouTube Disinformation Campaign
Published research on discovering a network of likely state-sponsored political disinformation / propaganda videos with 8M+ views on YouTube using NLP.
Featured by CNN online and on TV. Worked with Google's Threat Analysis Group to report the accounts.
Supported by Darren Linvill @ Clemson University, who helped co-author research cited in the bi-partisan Senate Intel Committee Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 Election.
Security Exploit on Google Search Results Page
Uncovered a security exploit to run malicious JavaScript code on arbitrary Google search result pages.
Listed in the Google Security Hall of Fame.
GoogolPlex – First App Store for Siri Commands
A MITM hack that allowed 3rd party integrations for Siri.
First app store for "voice commands" in 2014 before Alexa Skills or SiriKit existed with 25,000+ users and developers.
Featured in Forbes, TIME, Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Business Insider, and others.
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Publications
DataDreamer: A Tool for Synthetic Data Generation and Reproducible LLM Workflows
by
Ajay Patel
, Colin Raffel, Chris Callison-Burch (in submission)
ParaGuide: Guided Diffusion Paraphrasers for Plug-and-Play Textual Style Transfer
by Zachary Horovitz,
Ajay Patel
, Chris Callison-Burch, Zhou Yu, Kathleen McKeown
(AAAI 2024)
Learning Interpretable Style Embeddings via Prompting LLMs
by
Ajay Patel
, Delip Rao, Chris Callison-Burch
(Findings of EMNLP 2023)
Low-Resource Authorship Style Transfer: Can Non-Famous Authors Be Imitated?
by
Ajay Patel
, Nicholas Andrews, Chris Callison-Burch
(arXiv 2022)
Bidirectional language models are also few-shot learners
by
Ajay Patel
, Bryan Li, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Noah Constant, Colin Raffel, Chris Callison-Burch
(ICLR 2023)
TopGuNN: Fast Contextual Similarity Search over Large Corpora
by Rebecca Iglesias-Flores, Megha Mishra,
Ajay Patel
, Akanksha Malhotra, Reno Kriz, Martha Palmer, Chris Callison-Burch
(DaSH workshop at NAACL-HLT 2021)
Magnitude: A fast, efficient universal vector embedding utility package
by
Ajay Patel
, Alexander Sands, Chris Callison-Burch, Marianna Apidianaki
(EMNLP 2018)
SBIR Phase I: A System for Automating End-to-End Creation of Natural Language Interfaces
by
Ajay Patel
, Alexander Sands
(NSF SBIR 2018)
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Press
How fake accounts pushing inflammatory content went viral – with the help of YouTube’s algorithms
(CNN)
Uncovering YouTube disinformation campaign with NLP and AI
(CNN TV Coverage)
Elizabeth Warren’s Exit Spurs Biden, Sanders to Vie for Her Voters
(Wall Street Journal)
Sanders Aims for Positive Campaign, but Allies Don’t Always Follow
(Wall Street Journal)
Plasticity wants to help chatbots seem less robotic
(TechCrunch)
Y Combinator takes machine intelligence startups to school and learns a thing or two
(TechCrunch)
Hack Siri To Control Spotify, A Nest, A Tesla, And Give Directions Through Google Maps
(TechCrunch)
College kids gave Siri new powers and now you can too
(Engadget)
This Simple Siri Hack Lets You Control Anything With Your iPhone
(Gizmodo)
College Kids Hack Siri to Unlock Teslas and Heat Up Your House
(WIRED)
Crazy Siri Hack Brings Voice Commands to Google Maps, Spotify
(TIME Magazine)
Apple Reportedly Plans To Open Siri To Third Parties (Just As Hackers Force It Open)
(Forbes)
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