Ashish Bhatia

Ashish Bhatia
Websiteashishb.net 

Ashish Bhatia is a US-based Indian engineer with specializations in mobile security and social media, who developed Google's predictive response generation system. He is also an angel investor, public speaker and advocate for startups.[1][2]

Education

Bhatia earned a bachelor's degree in engineering in 2009 and a master's degree in computer architecture in 2011, both from IIT Kanpur.[3]

Career

He worked at Morta Security, a startup that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2013. He has also worked as a software engineer at WhatsApp, on the Messenger team at Facebook, and the emerging markets team at Instagram.[4]

At Google, Bhatia was a founder member in 2010 of Google's Android app scanning team, known as Google Bouncer,[4] and developed the predictive response generation system for personal responses.[5][6][7][8]

As of 2019, he worked at a cryptocurrency startup while maintaining a GitHub repository on Android security.[4] He has published on his blog threats such as the Facebook "April Fools Prank".[9]

In 2021, co-working space aggregator Stylework appointed[10] Ashish Bhatia as a technical advisor.

In 2021, Elucidate, a German startup focused on financial risk assessment, appointed[11] Ashish Bhatia as a technical advisor.

In 2023, social media network Hood appointed[12] Ashish Bhatia as a technical advisor.

In 2025, Ashish Bhatia instituted LKL (Lalita and Krishan Lal Bhatia) Faculty Chair[13] at IIT Kanpur.

Publications

  • Deep Learning Projects with PyTorch. Packt Publishing, 2018. OCLC 1137100920.

Patents

  • Automated generation of suggestions for personalized reactions in a social network[14][15]
  • Detecting pirated applications[16]
  • Methods and systems for handling recovery messages[17]

References

  1. ^ "Movers And Shakers Of The Week [April 12–17]: Stylework, Decentro Expand Advisory Teams & More". Inc42 Media. 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  2. ^ "Ashish Bhatia". youngStartup Ventures. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  3. ^ "Ashish Bhatia: Google Engineering Department". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  4. ^ a b c "Ashish Bhatia - Angel Investor" (PDF). Private Investor Summit. Family Office Club. 2019-07-25. p. 11. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  5. ^ "Google patents robot help for social media burnout". BBC News. 2013-11-22. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  6. ^ "Google Patents Social Media 'Auto Responder' That Can Post Replies For You". Huffpost UK. 2014-01-25 [2013-11-25]. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  7. ^ Jennifer Slegg (2013-11-27). "Google Wants to Write Your Social Media Messages For You". Search Engine Watch. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  8. ^ Jillian D'Onfro (2013-11-22). "Google Wants To Write Your Tweets For You". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  9. ^ Fahmida Y. Rashid (2011-04-07). "Facebook Bully Video Actually an XSS Exploit". eWEEK. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  10. ^ Bhalla, Kritti (2021-04-17). "Movers And Shakers Of The Week [April 12-17]: Stylework, Decentro Expand Advisory Teams & More". Inc42 Media. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  11. ^ "Our Team". www.elucidate.co. Archived from the original on 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2025-11-13.
  12. ^ "Ashish Bhatia joins social media platform Hood as tech advisor". Techcircle. 2023-05-08. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  13. ^ "Institute News | IIT Kanpur". www.iitk.ac.in. Retrieved 2026-01-06.
  14. ^ US 8589407B2, "Automated generation of suggestions for personalized reactions in a social network", issued 2011-06-17 
  15. ^ US 8589407, Bhatia, Ashish, "Automated generation of suggestions for personalized reactions in a social network", issued 2013-11-19 
  16. ^ US 8875303B2, "Detecting pirated applications", issued 2012-08-02 
  17. ^ US 9015801B1, "Methods and systems for handling recovery messages", issued 2013-05-14