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Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, and a contributing writer at the New York Times and the Atlantic. Her research revolves around how society and technology interacts, with a focus on the public sphere as well as complex societal problems.

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. 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. 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. 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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

A United States Naval Academy graduate and former information warfare officer in the U.S. Navy, Robert Pierce Wall served in the Intelligence Community, where he focused his efforts on creating new capabilities to fuse intelligence data from multiple sources in countering transnational threats. Now an Account Executive at Basis Technology, he assists public and private...

Bruce Lawhorn works with the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers in delivering innovative text analytics solutions. Over the past five years at Basis Technology, Bruce has been involved with projects including predicting political unrest from social media, traditional analytical and targeting requirements, to information operations. He is currently leading the field effort for delivering...

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...