Ashwini Asokan is co-founder and CEO of Mad Street Den, a computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies company, based in Chennai in India, and Redwood City, California, in the US. In 2017, Mad Street Den was recognised among the 50 most promising startups in the world by Bloomberg. Ashwini has also written about her experience in making Mad Street Den a company where half the staff are women. She is an alumna of Carnegie Mellon University and a product design and user experience specialist. She is also a trained dancer