Kfir Bar

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 Global Public Sector team at Basis Technology, working with government customers to meet their text analytics and digital forensics mission needs. He also oversees sales to commercial customers, with emphasis on financial services, e-discovery, and enterprise software vendors. He holds a BS in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy and an MS...

Dr. Danelle Shah is an Assistant Group Leader in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Her research background is in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human-machine interaction. Danelle joined Lincoln Laboratory in 2012 and has since been involved in a variety of programs with foci including pattern analysis and anomaly...

Dr. Douglas Reynolds is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and is currently on IPA assignment as Technical Director in the Video, Image, Speech, and Text Analytics (VISTA) Research Office at NSA. In this role, Doug provides strategic direction, technical advice and promotes rigorous evaluation driven research and development for...

Dr. Catherine Havasi is a technology strategist, artificial intelligence researcher, and entrepreneur. In the late 90s, she co-founded the Common Sense Computing Initiative, or ConceptNet, the first crowd-sourced project for artificial intelligence and the largest open knowledge graph for language understanding. ConceptNet has played a role in thousands of AI projects and will be turning...

Eugene has decades 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), such as Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), entity identification, and machine translation. Growing up, he learned to program...

Farid Moussa is a senior product manager at Basis Technology. He recently retired from the National Security Agency as a member of the Senior Executive Service cadre. In his last position with the government he led the Video, Image, Speech and Text Analytics (VISTA) effort. Having guided language analysis teams for the counterterrorism target set...

Dr. Joseph P. Campbell is the leader of the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratories. His group creates algorithms, technologies, and systems for extracting information from multimedia data in adverse conditions and has a rich heritage of world-leading speech, speaker, and language recognition technologies. Dr. Campbell is passionate about developing human-network...

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.

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...

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.