“I was determined to find a fix for a system that had become so focused on producing content, and then curating personalized content solutions leading to information overload, filter bubbles and misinformation. Most everyone knows that they should spend wisely, save more and invest for the future but many of us have lost hard earned savings to poor advice. Nobias gives you the tools to defeat unconscious bias and make healthy decisions on your wealth and in your civic life. Take back control of your media diet.”
Tania Ahuja - Founder and CEO
Meet The Team
Context and perspective in the era of media bias and misinformation
Nobias was founded in 2017 with a mission to protect consumers from deceptive or misleading content on the internet and help them make better informed decisions. Along the way, we hope to promote responsible/inclusive technology, help people understand the landscape of media bias so they can be more vigilant, and give them power over the algorithms that shape what they read and see online.
Every hour, millions of people turn to the internet to make a decision that directly impacts their lives. Some decisions are minor: what product will safely remove ink from my couch? Others are weighty—is this new medical treatment too risky? Some decisions we may only make once, such as voting for a new state law, while others, such as stock trading, are made daily.
The internet gives us access to more knowledge than we have ever had before. Within seconds, one can scan the globe and amass thousands of articles, reviews, forecasts, and ratings on any topic. This vast expanse of research should make decision making faster and more intelligent than ever before. Instead, the reverse is happening. As fast as high-quality information is being uploaded to the internet, so too is biased, deceptive, and manipulative intelligence being uploaded and tagged. It is becoming too easy to be played or manipulated into making the wrong choice. Propaganda is now relentless. You can't escape it.
The amazing benefits internet research offers still exist, but accessing that value is becoming increasingly more challenging. To make successful decisions one needs to be more skeptical, more vigilant, more rigorous, and invest more labor and time than ever before.
We realized that almost every successful decision required the support of a team effort, and a full time staff. This inspired us to create exactly that– a for hire AI team that can help source, collate, analyze and present research in a way that will optimize big decisions.
Before you invest, buy, or say yes. - stop - slow down - remove the noise, the bias and the BS.
Tania Ahuja — Founder and CEO
Dr. Tania Ahuja is Founder and CEO of Nobias
She is a former director of Citigroup and serves on the Board of Stern School of Business, NYU. Additionally, she sits on the board of other learning and art organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Chamber Orchestra, The Paper Bag Players, and was Chairman of the Board for the Summit Music Festival.
Tania holds a PhD in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University. She also has a BS in Statistics and an MS in Operations Research.
Rene Schaub — Head of Data Science
Dr. Schaub is CoFounder and Head of Data Science at Nobias
Dr. Schaub has been instrumental in the success of large-scale ML projects at four Fortune 500 companies. From high-level mathematical modeling down to computing infrastructure requirements and support, Dr. Schaub has lead product life-cycles in Finance, Marketing, Enterprise Cloud Computing, and Manufacturing Decision Support.
Rene holds PhDs in Machine Learning and Operations Research from Stanford University.
Nicholas Gonzalez — Software Engineer
Nicholas Gonzalez is a Software Engineer at Nobias responsible for the extension.
He is a Technical Lead at Headspace. At Snap, Nicholas was a senior software engineer and developed the Snap Kit Developer Portal, On-Demand Geofilters and Lenses (create.snapchat.com), and various internal web apps and code packages.
Nicholas has a BS in Computer Science from Yale University.
Yuri Ahuja — Data Scientist
Dr. Yuri Ahuja is a Data Scientist at Nobias responsible for the article level bias algorithm.
After rotations in the Harvard Biomedical Informatics and MIT Computer Science departments, Yuri received an MD in general medicine and a PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University with the goal of enhancing medical decision support to revolutionize personalized medicine.
Yuri has a BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and a PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University and an MD from Harvard Medical School.
Vitaly Borzenkov - Engineer + Data Scientist
Vitaly Borzenkov is a Data Science Consultant at Nobias and a Quantitative Analyst at TransMarketGroup.
Vitaly has a BS in Probability/Statistics and Cognitive Science from UC San Diego, and an MS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.
Anant Goel — Engineer + Data Scientist
Anant Goel is a software developer at Nobias and a software engineer at Microsoft. He had previously co-founded Fib, where he used machine learning to verify facts and received the Google Moonshot award. He’s also worked as a machine learning engineer for projects at NASA and helped run The Anvil, a startup incubator, which has helped scale student companies to million dollar valuations.
Anant has a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University.
Eugene Dorokhin — Engineer + Data Scientist
Eugene Dorokhin is a software developer at Nobias. Previously he worked in a research lab modeling biological timing using recurrent neural networks.
Eugene has a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Brooklyn College.
Teresa Xie — Content Writer
Teresa Xie is an intern on the Spotlight journalism team at Nobias creating content for our newsletter.
In addition to writing for Nobias, she sits on the board of UPenn’s Marketing Undergraduate Student Establishment (MUSE), is Marketing Director of the Academic Affairs branch of UPenn’s International Affairs Association, is the Marketing Outreach and Manager for Benny’s Diner, and is a photographer for The WALK.
Teresa is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania pursuing a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
Spot — Mascot
Spot is the team Mascot at Nobias. A faithful companion to everyone who uses Google Chrome or Firefox, Spot helps users spot bias and discern credibility.
This protective and loyal pup will place a helpful paw print by your articles so you're always informed before you click. That protectiveness comes from Spot's ancestors; back when firefighters arrived in horse-drawn carriages, Dalmatians like Spot would run ahead to warn bystanders of the oncoming carriages and then guard the horses as the fires were put out.
Spot holds a Master's degree in Bias Barking from Who Let The Dogs Out University.
