Vinay has been a Strategic Advisor to Loop AI Group since its founding in 2012, when he was Program Director at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International, bringing extensive expertise in cognitive computing, knowledge representation, and intelligent systems to guide the company’s AI vision and technological direction. His advisory role with Loop began while he was leading groundbreaking AI research at SRI International making him an invaluable bridge between cutting-edge academic research and enterprise AI applications. Vinay's contributions to Loop reflect his unique ability to translate complex AI capabilities into practical cognitive solutions.

In addition to his role at Loop, Vinay serves as Principal Scientist at Knowledge Systems Research LLC, where he contributes to a National Science Foundation initiative exploring how to enhance deep learning with knowledge graphs and human-like learning and reasoning. He is also affiliated with the Logic Group within Stanford University's Computer Science Department, where he is involved in projects on intelligent textbooks, logic education, and computational law. Additionally, he collaborates with Rice University's OpenStax initiative on adding knowledge graphs to textbook publishing.

Previously, Vinay served as Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where his team leveraged large language models for banker note classification with potential to increase business by $500M. He also benchmarked commercial graph database systems (AWS Neptune, TigerGraph, Neo4j) to inform the firm's graph database strategy, and led the development of novel AI models for enterprise knowledge graphs used in risk assessment, fraud detection, and investment advice.

From 1995 to 2020, Vinay was the Program Director at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International (formerly known as Stanford Research Institute), one of the largest private research facilities in the U.S. At SRI, he played a pivotal role in creating and leading a team of research scientists and engineers specializing in areas such as reasoning, ontologies, human-computer interaction, and natural language processing. Notably, he led the development of the ontology and query manager for Project CALO, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

Vinay's technical expertise spans a range of advanced AI techniques, from knowledge representation and reasoning to natural language question answering, knowledge graphs, and machine learning. His work focuses on creating innovative products that leverage these AI capabilities, including online learning environments, intelligent semantic search systems, and dialog-based intelligent assistants.

Notable projects Vinay has contributed to include:

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Project CALO (DARPA-DoD): Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes—developed the ontology and query manager that bridged intelligent assistant components. This technology was spun off as SIRI and later acquired by Apple. Contracted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense.

Inquire (Vulcan Inc., Paul Allen founder of Microsoft): An intelligent textbook designed to answer students' questions, engage their interest, and enhance their understanding, contracted by Vulcan Inc., the company founded by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

AURA (Vulcan Inc., Paul Allen founder of Microsoft): Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System, a system that uses AI to answer questions and solve problems in various scientific disciplines, contracted by Vulcan Inc.

Project Halo (Vulcan Inc., Paul Allen founder of Microsoft): A staged research effort toward developing a Digital Aristotle, a system that provides accurate, domain-specific answers to novel questions, contracted by Vulcan Inc.

JEL & JPEC (JPMorgan Chase): Novel neural entity linking and graph neural network models for enterprise knowledge graphs, addressing competitor retrieval and entity disambiguation in financial applications.

Ontology Concepts, Uses, and Evaluation (Toyota): A project for Toyota focusing on the application of ontologies.

SHAKEN (DARPA-DoD): A knowledge entry system for domain experts, contracted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.

HPKB (DARPA-DoD): High-Performance Knowledge Bases, a project aimed at accelerating the construction of knowledge bases, contracted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.

Reusable Tools for Knowledge Base and Ontology Development (United States Air Force Research Laboratory-DoD): A system designed to support knowledge base browsing and editing, contracted by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the scientific research arm of the United States Air Force under the Department of Defense.

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Vinay has co-authored "Introduction to Logic Programming" (Morgan & Claypool, 2020) with Michael Genesereth, a foundational textbook on Logic Programming theory and applications. He has also co-edited a volume on the Theory and Application of Conceptual Modeling, and two special issues of AI Magazine—one on Question Answering Systems, and another on Application of AI to Contemporary and Emerging Education Challenges. His research has garnered over 4,000 citations across 150+ publications.

In 2010-2011, Vinay served as a Visiting Lecturer of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Stanford, he helped launch the highly successful "Logic For All" initiative to bring logic education to high schools across America, and he organizes the International Logic Olympiad, a worldwide logic contest for high school students with finals held at Stanford. He currently serves on the editorial boards of AI Magazine and the Journal of Applied Ontology. He is also co-chair for the industry track at the International Semantic Web Conference. Vinay contributes to several academic conferences, including the Cognitive Systems Conference, AAAI Annual Conference, Knowledge Graph Conference, and the European Semantic Web Conference. He is a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, the International Association for Ontology and its Applications, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society.

Vinay has received numerous accolades, including the Best Demo Award at the 19th European Conference on Knowledge Engineering in 2014, the Best Video Award at the AAAI Video Competition in 2012, and the Senior Member Award from AAAI in 2014. He has also been awarded the University of Toronto Open Fellowship and the Connaught Fellowship.

He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and began his career in 1988 as an Analyst Programmer at Tata Consultancy Services.