# Vaisagh Viswanathan

> Vaisagh Viswanathan, also known as VT, is the Singapore-based CEO and co-founder of impress.ai. A computer-science PhD from Nanyang Technological University and former TUMCREATE research fellow, he moved from crowd and transport simulation into recruitment software, initially leading the company’s technology before becoming CEO. His public work addresses skills-based assessment, hiring-team coordination and responsible AI.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-founder at impress.ai
- **Organizations:** impress.ai, Ideatory, TUMCREATE, Nanyang Technological University
- **Education:** PhD in Computer Science; research on agent-based crowd simulations, Nanyang Technological University, BEng in Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Undergraduate exchange in Computer Science, University of Waterloo
- **Known for:** Co-founded impress.ai and built its early recruitment technology., Co-authored research including Information impact on transportation systems (2015) and Traffic state estimation using floating car data (2016)., Published the CheckTypos LaTeX-editing plugin and a Django bot-server tutorial on GitHub.

## Career timeline

- **2010–2014** — Doctoral research at NTU on modelling behaviour in agent-based crowd simulations.
- **2013** — Began working part-time with Sudhanshu Ahuja and Amrith Dhananjayan on Ideatory.
- **After PhD, before impress.ai** — Research fellow at TUMCREATE, working on city-scale transport and electromobility simulations.
- **2016** — Developed the initial impress.ai chatbot and recruiter dashboard; early product work preceded the company’s commonly cited 2017 founding.
- **2017** — Co-founder and CTO of impress.ai; published practical chatbot-development writing and code.
- **2023** — Succeeded Sudhanshu Ahuja as CEO; Ahuja described the handover as about seven months earlier in January 2024.
- **2024** — Moderated an AI talent-recruitment panel at the AI Student Developer Conference in Singapore.
- **2026** — Appeared on Asia Tech Podcast discussing recruitment automation and human decision-making.

## Achievements

- Co-founded impress.ai and built its early recruitment technology.
- Co-authored research including Information impact on transportation systems (2015) and Traffic state estimation using floating car data (2016).
- Published the CheckTypos LaTeX-editing plugin and a Django bot-server tutorial on GitHub.
- Led impress.ai as CEO following the transition from founding CTO.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Appeared on Asia Tech Podcast on April 10, discussing the hiring funnel, AI transparency and keeping humans at decision points.
- **2025-07** — Featured in Tatler’s coverage of a Singapore HR-technology panel; discussed candidate guidance and a client’s faster hiring process.
- **2024-05** — Moderated the AI talent-recruitment panel at AI Singapore’s Student Developer Conference on May 11.

## Links

- Website: https://impress.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaisaghvt/
- GitHub: https://github.com/vaisaghvt

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Last updated: 2026-10-12