Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a

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technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the former click fraud czar at

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, the author of works on technology and business including the Open Music Model, and co-founder of TeachAids. He was chief technology officer for Shape Security, which was acquired in 2020 for $1 billion by F5 Inc, where he became head of artificial intelligence.

Early life

Ghosemajumder was born in Stuttgart,

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and grew up in

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, Canada. He earned a

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from the

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, where he attended after receiving a Canada Merit Scholarship Foundation award as one of the top fifteen students in the country. While in university, he was the North American Public Speaking Champion and president of the

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. He earned an

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from the

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. He also earned a brown belt in Goju-Ryu karate.

Career

Early in his career, he created the first real-time collaborative graphic design application as a

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at Groupware. He was later co-founder of a software development firm, and a

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with McKinsey & Company and IBM. Ghosemajumder worked at Google from 2003 to 2010, where he led product management efforts for protecting their advertising services, worth US $20 billion in annual

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revenue, against click fraud. He was one of the early product managers for

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, led the launch of Link Units and AdSense for Feeds, and was part of the team that launched

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. He was the recipient of two Google Founders' Awards for significant entrepreneurial accomplishments. He left Google in 2010 for TeachAids, a non-profit educational technology start-up spun-out of Stanford University, which he had co-founded and where he was chairman. In 2012, he joined Shape Security, which was acquired by F5, Inc. in 2020.

Works

He is co-author of ''CGI Programming Unleashed'' ( Macmillan, , 1997) and a contributing author to ''Crimeware'' ( Symantec Press, , 2008). His master's thesis proposed the Open Music Model, which predicted the use of music subscription services. In 2011, he was included on the

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list, as one of the top innovators from the

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