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Nishchay Shah
Chief Technology Officer and Business Head, AI Products
Nishchay heads CACTUS's AI-powered products business consisting of products like Paperpal, Paperpal Preflight, R Discovery, and Mind the Graph and oversees technology and innovation across all products and brands. Experienced in managing product development, customer experience, outsourcing, and global technology recruitment, Nishchay manages a large department with over 300 experts working in product management and software development, digital innovation, and machine learning. Nishchay focuses on creating, translating, and mobilizing big-picture visions downstream. Nishchay has over 18 years of experience in product development and technology and strives to stay on the bleeding edge of innovation.Latest articles
“Earn your title!”—Forcing my team to start again
The CACTUS Way #4: Speak up and listen actively; differences enrich us. I can say this with confidence: In 2014, I was the least popular manager at CACTUS. I joined CACTUS in 2014 as head of the technology department. Back then, we were a s...
By Nishchay Shah | November 18, 2020
Technology in Advancing Scientific Research
Efforts toward building research capacity tend to focus on developing scientists’ technical competencies through training. Therefore, to help advance scientific research, it is important to facilitate knowledge creation by building infrastructure ...
By Nishchay Shah | September 8, 2020
Counting on AI: The right time for researchers to embrace…
While Artificial General Intelligence, or “singularity” as they call it, may be decades away, we have already reached a point where AI can significantly augment our intelligence and help us achieve better outputs at a faster pace. As of today, the...
By Nishchay Shah | July 22, 2020