Ashish Bhatia


Ashish Bhatia is a US-based Indian engineer with specializations in mobile security and social media, who developed Google's predictive response generation system. He is also an angel investor, public speaker and advocate for startups

Education

Bhatia earned a bachelor's degree in engineering in 2009 and a master's degree in computer architecture in 2011, both from IIT Kanpur.

Career

He worked at Morta Security, a startup that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2013. He has also worked as a software engineer at WhatsApp, on the Messenger team at Facebook, and the emerging markets team at Instagram.
At Google, Bhatia was a founder member in 2010 of Google's Android app scanning team, known as Google Bouncer, and developed the predictive response generation system for personal responses.
, he worked at a cryptocurrency startup while maintaining a GitHub repository on Android security. He has published on his blog threats such as the Facebook "April Fools Prank".
In 2021, co-working space aggregator Stylework appointed Ashish Bhatia as a technical advisor.
In 2021, Elucidate, a German startup focused on financial risk assessment, appointed Ashish Bhatia as a technical advisor.
In 2023, social media network Hood appointed Ashish Bhatia as a technical advisor.
In 2025, Ashish Bhatia instituted LKL Faculty Chair at IIT Kanpur.

Publications