Ronjon Nag

Dr. Ronjon Nag is an inventor, entrepreneur, and a Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Interdisciplinary Fellow based at the Stanford Center for Language and Information (CSLI). He is the founder of the R42 Institute which invents, informs, and invests. He is a founder and advisor/board member of multiple start-ups including Propel(x). His companies have been sold to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola. He has been awarded the Mountbatten Medal in the Royal Institution of Engineering and Technology and has been the winner (Bounce Imaging-Chairman) of the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Award.

He has been a pioneer of smartphones and the ‘app stores’ they depend on. He has worked on neural networks, touch screens, mobile search, voice recognition, text prediction, and handwriting recognition.