Catherine Havasi
Born1981 (age 42–43)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (S.B., 2003)
(M.Eng, 2004)
Brandeis University (Ph.D, 2009)
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
ThesisDiscovering Semantic Relations Using Singular Value Decomposition[citation needed] (2009)
Doctoral advisorJames Pustejovsky[citation needed]

Catherine Havasi (born 1981) is an American scientist who specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab.[1] She is co-founder and CEO of AI company Luminoso.[2] Havasi was a member of the MIT group engaged in the Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project and that created the natural language AI program ConceptNet.[3][4]

Early life and education

Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence from reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind.[5] She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became involved in the MIT Media Lab and studied under Minsky.[5] She received a Ph.D in computer science from Brandeis University.[4]

Career

In 1999, she became involved in the MIT project Open Mind Common Sense with Minsky and Push Singh,[3] and was part of a team that created ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database.[5]

In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company building on the work of ConceptNet.[6]

Havasi was named among Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40", of business and civic leaders making a major impact in their respective fields in 2014.[4] Fast Company included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing.[2]

She is co-author of 7 peer-reviewed journal articles on AI and language, and many per-reviewed major conference presentations,[7]

Selected publications

Most cited publication

Other publications

References

  1. ^ Campbell, MacGregor (23 July 2013). "AI scores same as a 4-year-old in verbal IQ test". New Scientist. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b Titlow, John Paul (June 2015). "The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2015: Catherine Havasi". Fast Company. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  3. ^ a b Havasi, Catherine (9 August 2014). "Who's Doing Common-Sense Reasoning And Why It Matters". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Harris, David (16 October 2014). "40 Under 40: Catherine Havasi of Luminoso". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  5. ^ a b c Cline, Keith (25 June 2014). "Dr. Catherine Havasi – From the MIT Media Lab to Co-Founder & CEO". Venture Fizz. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  6. ^ Alba, Davey (12 February 2015). "The Startup That Helps You Analyze Twitter Chatter in Real Time". Wired. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  7. ^ "Catherine Havasi". scholar.google. Google Scholar. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
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