Delip Rao is the VP of Research at AI Foundation, where he leads speech, language, and vision research efforts for generating and detecting artificial content. Prior to this, he founded Joostware, an AI research consulting company, and The Fake News Challenge, an initiative to bring AI researchers across the world to work on fact-checking related problems.

Delip specializes in NLP research for real-world situations. He has worked on NLP and ML research problems involving semi-supervised learning, graph-based ranking, sequence learning, distributed machine learning, and more and has published several highly-cited papers in these areas. Delip is the author of a book on Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing.

Delip worked previously as a Research Scientist at Amazon (Alexa), Twitter, and Google.