Srinija Srinivasan

Srinija Srinivasan was hired in 1995 as the fifth employee of Yahoo! by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo to "organize the content." [1][2] She left Yahoo! in 2010 while serving as a vice-president and editor-in-chief.[3] Srinivasan holds a B.S degree, 1993, from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems.[2] Before coming to Yahoo!, she worked on the Cyc Project, an artificial intelligence project to create a database of human commonsense knowledge. In 2010, Srinivasan was appointed by United States President Obama to the United States Commission on Presidential Scholars, a federal program to commemorate the achievement of distinguished graduating high school students.[3]

She was elected to Stanford University's Board of Trustees in 2014.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bhatt, Kamla (February 16, 2009). "At Yahoo, it has been about power of aggregation". Live Mint. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Sullivan, Kathleen J. (18 March 2014). "Srinija Srinivasan, former executive at Yahoo, elected to Stanford's Board of Trustees". Stanford Report (Stanford University). Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  3. 1 2 Letzing, John (August 4, 2010). "Yahoo Executive Srinivasan to Leave". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
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