George Koomullil

George Koomullil is the founder and CEO of Ascendr PBC, whose mission is to make verifiable AI the foundation for high-stakes decisions. The company builds trustworthy, evidence-backed AI for that work, including a research intelligence platform that helps institutions discover expertise and form grant and partnership teams. He has spent more than thirty years in research and then in building the tools that researchers and inventors rely on. He earned his PhD in computational engineering from Mississippi State University and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Duke University. He then won competitive federal funding from the National Research Council to conduct research at NASA Ames Research Center. After that he moved from doing research to building for it, founding INDUS TechInnovations and then building and leading Relecura for more than a decade, an AI and natural language platform that helps organizations discover inventions, manage intellectual property, and commercialize tec