Vinay Setty is an associate professor at University of Stavanger and founder and CTO of Factiverse AI a startup focused on providing automated fact-checking services for businesses. Vinay Setty's research area broadly encompasses NLP, information retrieval and deep neural networks for language technologies,. Currently, Vinay is dedicating a significant amount of his time to his startup, Factiverse with the mission to make credible information more accessible. He has published in several top-tier conferences within the area of information retrieval and web mining. He also won the 2020 SR Bank Innovation prize for commercializing neural network technology for fake news detection. He has PhD from University of Oslo and a postdoc from Max-Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany.