Imran Ghory

Imran Ghory (imranghory@gmail.com) Follow me on Twitter Stalk me on Facebook

...creator of SeedTable - a startup analytics website
...founder of CoderStack a developer recuitment startup with a lot of awesome customers ranging from startups to national newspapers and tech giants.
...creator of AnalyticsRock - a google analytics reporting tool that I created as a side project.
...author of the geek humour webcomic Theory of Geek
...author of a number of blogs including awesomezombie.com (avg readership: 5,000) and imranontech.com (avg readership: 20,000. peak: 500,000). I currently blog at blog.imranghory.org
...a public speaker, I regularly give talks about business aspects of startups. I've spoken at ProductCamp, LeanCamp, Hacker News London and Ignite as well as at private events (my Lanyrd profile)
...inventor of the FizzBuzz interview question which has now been widely adopted by the tech industry and is part of the CS sylabus at many universities (including Berkley, Caltech, Manchester, Nottingham, and Toronto)
...creator of Treemap Squared - a JS library I developed to draw beautiful Treemaps as I was frustrated at how ugly all the existing Treemap tools were.

...a freelance consultant providing expertise on currency pricing and trading systems (my Linkedin profile)
...founder of MemeLand.org (2004 - now defunct) - formerly the largest social networking application website with 300,000 visits/month.
...creator of TheUniversityReport (2010 - now defunct) - a website for comparing undergraduate degree courses
...founder of Quo Foundation (a social mobility/education non-profit)
...volunteer, contributer and board of trustee election co-chair for Wikipedia (my wikipedia profile)
...a reader for the Oxford English Dictionary

My paper on the application of Reinforcement Learning AI techniques to gameplay (see opposite for citations)
My empirical proof that Andrica's conjecture is true for values less than 1.3002 x 10^16.
My research into card games in early English literature (1500-1700CE)
My research into the early history of board games (particularly Backgammon and Chess)
My on-going long term research goal is developing a mathematical theory of game graphs

Panorama Economy (extract only) - Italy's leading Business Weekly Magazine did a full page article interviewing me about SeedTable.
Techcrunch - coverage of SeedTable.
New York Observer's BetaBeat - As above.
Businesss Insider - Facebook Article - an article I wrote about Facebook Ads
New York Times / ReadWriteWeb article - On TechStars adoption of transparency as a result of my blog post on the topic
GigaOm article - As above.
The Guardian Technology Blog - discussion of my FizzBuzz interview technique (see also the Wikipedia FizzBuzz article)

Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction - References my work in helping the OED track the etymology of Science Fiction terminology and phrases
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror - Cites an article I wrote on science fiction authors
The Yale Book of Quotations - For whom I helped track down the origin and autheniticity of some of the quotations used
Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math - Mentions my work on Andrica's Conjecture

Artificial Intelligence and Innovations 2007 - Refers to my paper on reinforcement learning
Time-Based Reward Shaping in Real-Time Strategy Games - Refers to my paper on reinforcement learning
Gazeta Matematica (ianuarie 2009) - Contains an article showing how an empirical proof of Legendre's conjecture and Ruiz's conjecture can be derived from my (partial) empirical proof of Andrica's conjecture.