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Kamal Nigam, Executive Director of The Hear Foundation

Kamal Nigam

Executive Director 


Kamal brings his leadership experience in building collaboration to his work alongside The Hear Foundation’s board of directors. The grandson of a police officer, he is  active in Pittsburgh’s nonprofit community, currently serving as Chairman of Riverlife, Secretary of The Pittsburgh Foundation, and a member of the Board of Visitors for the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information.  

Previously, Kamal was the co-founder and site lead for Google’s 750-person Pittsburgh office. As a Senior Engineering Director at Google, he led the teams that built Google’s shopping experience and created the underlying metadata with machine learning and large-scale human operations.  He was previously adjunct faculty in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Kamal holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

He has been recognized locally as one of Pittsburgh Magazine’s “40 under 40” and is a proud alumnus of Leadership Pittsburgh class XXXVII.

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