Ritankar Das
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Ritankar Das | |
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| Born | November 27, 1994 |
| Alma mater | University of California Berkeley, University of Oxford |
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| Fields | Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Engineering |
Ritankar Das is an American scientist, billionaire and technology entrepreneur.[1] He is the founder of Titan Holdings,[1][2] which builds and operates artificial intelligence companies. At 18, he was the youngest University Medalist (top graduating senior) in at least a century among over 6000 graduates from UC Berkeley.[3][4][5][6] He has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle,[3] ABC News,[6] Times of India[7] and over 100 other media outlets around the globe.[8][9]
Das was born in Kolkata, India and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the age of seven. He graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA before attending the University of California, Berkeley.[10] In three years at the age of 18, he completed his studies at UC Berkeley with a double major in bioengineering and chemical biology and a minor in creative writing.[9][11] He became UC Berkeley's youngest University Medalist in at least 100 years, and also became the first Medalist ever from the Department of Bioengineering and first from the College of Chemistry in the last 58 years.[9][4][11] He then received a master’s degree in biomedical engineering at Oxford University. After that, he commenced doctoral studies in machine learning at the University of Cambridge through the Gates Cambridge Scholarship before dropping out in 2017.[12]