Keith Kirkland
Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Noze
Website: https://www.noze.ca/
Related Sense: Smell
Ashok spearheads the technology and engineering teams at Noze, and leads the company’s efforts to revolutionize healthcare through the digital sense of smell. Since founding the company in 2014, Ashok has been instrumental in developing and securing patents for several groundbreaking inventions, including the world’s first aroma monitoring application and the first digital olfaction-powered product—an AI-driven Air Intelligence Device. With 12 years of experience as a deep-tech startup CTO and over 20 patent filings under his belt, Ashok continues to drive innovation and excellence in the field. Prior to this, Ashok worked as a deep tech CTO at Applied Nanotools where he orchestrated the development and shipment of cutting-edge products like X-ray lenses and Silicon Photonics chips. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta where he authored 25 publications after receiving his Master of Engineering from the National University of Singapore. His undergraduate work was completed at the Madras Institute of Technology in India.
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