About Relixa

Relixa brings UW-Madison’s entity matching research to enterprise data workflows.

Portrait of Darshan Golchha

Darshan Golchha

Co-founder · CEO

Darshan developed Relixa’s matching technology with AnHai Doan, leading its implementation, engineering and benchmarking. Their work turned a research breakthrough into a practical engine for fast, economical matching at scale.

His work on Relixa draws on a background in computer systems and statistics, particularly operating systems, parallel computing and databases.

  • Computer Science and Data Science, UW-Madison
  • Before Relixa: software engineering at R Systems, Opstree Solutions and Nucleus Software
Portrait of AnHai Doan

AnHai Doan

Co-founder · Chief Scientist

AnHai’s research group developed Sparkly, Delex and Magellan. He brings experience turning research into enterprise software, including three years as VP of Technology at Informatica.

  • Gurindar S. Sohi Professor, UW-Madison
  • Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
  • ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • NSF CAREER Award and Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Co-founder, GreenBay Technologies, acquired by Informatica
  • Co-author, Principles of Data Integration
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