Speakers

Carl founded Basis Technology in 1995 to help American companies enter Asian markets. In 1999, the company shipped its first products for website internationalization, enabling Lycos and Google to become the first search engines capable of cataloging the web in both Asian and European languages. In 2003, the company shipped its first Arabic analyzer and...

Chris leads the U.S. Public Sector team at Basis Technology, working with government customers to meet their text analytics and digital forensics mission needs using Basis software and services.

Dr. Catherine Havasi is Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Luminoso, an AI-based natural language understanding company in Cambridge, MA and a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab where she works on computational creativity. Previous to Luminoso, she directed the Digital Intuition group at MIT’s Media Lab working on word embeddings, transfer learning, and...

Eugene Reyes is a Software Engineer at Numbers Place, an information technology consulting organization. Eugene has more than 18 years of experience in software engineering, mainly in several offices within the Intelligence Community. He has been part of multiple applied research and development organizations, focusing on advancing text analytics through various human language technologies (HLT),...

Gil leads the engineering team responsible for text analytics including existing products and new technology initiatives. He has nearly 30 years of experience in developing software and leading engineering teams, including work done at Curl (now part of Sumitomo Corporation), GTECH (now part of IGT PLC) and Constant Contact. Gil holds a BS in computer...

Hanna leads the Data Science Analysis team at Panjiva, constructing and enhancing the world’s largest transaction-level supply chain graph. A graduate of Swarthmore College in History and Arabic, Hanna joined Panjiva from Harvard Library, where she focused on multilingual/character metadata and ontologies.

Hannah is the product manager for the Rosette Text Analytics product line at Basis Technology where she oversees the definition and execution of the product roadmap, collaborating across the organization to bring state of the art multilingual text analysis solutions to market. A graduate of Reed College in Portland, OR, she is particularly interested in...

Dr. Kfir Bar is the Chief Scientist of our text analytics team. He has spent many years working in a wide range of natural language processing disciplines, including statistical machine translation, machine learning, ontologies, and language generation.

Michael has spent the last decade immersed in open source technologies, big data, and architecture design for global brands. Upon joining Basis he has focused on real-world implementation of cutting-edge NLP technologies.

Nick works with Basis Technology customers in the field to deploy complex NLP solutions. Previous to joining Basis, Nick worked as a high-level Sales Engineer at SmartBear software and graduated from the College of Wooster. He enjoys chocolate and hiking.

Peter Harding leads the Global Public Sector Solutions team at Basis Technology, focused on delivering NLP consultation as well as architecting and implementing Rosette solutions for customers.  Over the past decade, Peter has designed and built enterprise platforms aimed at addressing the challenges within the textual data space across both private and government sectors.

Philip Blair is a Senior Research Engineer on Basis Technology’s R&D team. He investigates practical applications of deep learning technologies for use in text analytics. Philip also leads Basis Technology’s machine learning infrastructure team, focused on deploying cutting-edge algorithms into the field. Philip has published research which explores intrinsic evaluations of text embeddings to better...

Tom received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland where he developed and analyzed graph algorithms for improving the containment of epidemics. Since then he has worked on designing and applying statistical graph algorithms for cloud and other non-traditional computation environments, as well as building full-stack web applications.

Zach is a Senior Linguistic Data Engineer at Basis. He works with Basis Technology's engineering teams to research, assess, and prepare linguistic data sets for NLP applications. Zach studied Linguistics and Computational Linguistics.