Neethu Mariam Joy — Co-Founder
If there’s one thing life has taught me, it’s this: raising four kids is excellent training for building AI systems — both involve unpredictable behavior, sudden noise bursts, and the occasional meltdown (sometimes mine). I’m Neethu Mariam Joy, Co-Founder & CTO of SuperBryn, where we’re on a mission to make Voice AI actually behave itself. My love story with speech technology began during my PhD at IIT-Madras and continued into my postdoc at King’s College London, where I spent years teaching machines how to listen. (Still working on getting my children to do the same.) After a stint as an AI Scientist in international companies, I traded corporate comfort for the chaos of entrepreneurship in 2023. We first built an enterprise search startup… then promptly pivoted — because startups, like toddlers, rarely follow the original plan. Today at SuperBryn, I get to combine deep research with practical engineering to help enterprises deploy voice agents that don’t hallucinate, panic, or forget what you just said. (Again, uncanny parallels to parenting.) If you’re building anything in AI, speech, or the land of “please work this time,” let’s connect. Always happy to chat, learn, and laugh at the unpredictability of both tech and life.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Voice AI specialist with a strong background in speech technology and machine learning.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 6 yrs 10 mos
Career Highlights
- Co-Founder & CTO of SuperBryn focused on Voice AI.
- PhD in Speech AI from IIT-Madras.
- Experience in AI across multiple international companies.
Work Experience
SuperBryn
Co-Founder & CTO (1 yr 8 mos)
Antler
Entrepreneur in Residence (4 mos)
MILA AI
Co-Founder (1 yr 2 mos)
Uniphore
Senior AI Scientist (6 mos)
ZS
AI Scientist (1 yr 7 mos)
King's College London
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1 yr 8 mos)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Master’s Degree at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Bachelor’s Degree at Amaljyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally, Koovapally PO, Kottayam-686518