+ Created several health-monitoring services by co-designing with scientists at top research universities+ Designed and maintained a conversational AI system and a WebRTC audio and video telephony system, that extracted diagnostics for tens of thousands of users+ Led technical strategy and day-to-day operations for a team of nearly twenty scientists and engineers across Europe, North America, and New Zealand+ Designed company security policies to comply with all applicable privacy laws and best practices, and monitored compliance

We've launched Modality AI, Inc and I'm so excited to be working all across its tech stack, and working with our customers to build great services!

My consultancy offering technical design and implementation of Voice Dialogue Systems, and business insights into this hot area. 19 year veteran with PhD in this area and global experience.

* Created a 3D avatar and integrated it with a spoken dialogue system using Unity3d, 3D models and animations, VoiceXml, and Javascript.* Created a way for low-vision and blind users to control a web-based science simulation by voice

* Reworked the NLP engine to scale better* Designed the data collection loop* Advised on business directions

* Designed and implemented NLP for chatbots and spoken dialog systems.* Designed ways for writers to create a conversational AI without needing coding skills.* Collaborated on the design and implementation of speech recognition post-processing (C++) and a chatbot authoring tool (Python/PyQt).

* Collaborated on cloud and desktop tools for capturing experimental data, and training budding scientists in how to do such work.* Extended a webservice using C++/Poco to stream from a data acquisition device, displayed with html canvas* Created a MatLab library for streaming values in real-time from the Microsoft COM Automationbased API of a data acquisition device* Implemented AWS DynamoDB-based services in Spring/ Java for online tertiary science education platform

* Lead AI and computer science expert in the Computational Social Cognition Programme. Project manager (2 projects). Personnel manager (a dozen scientists and engineers).* Conceived and managed development and clinical study for a data collection framework for serious games to detect early onset of Alzheimer's Disease using Android and AWS.* Designed and implemented voice control for a robot arm using VoiceXml and Node.Js servers (as wrappers for the effector and gesture recognition services)* Conceived, designed, and built a cognitively-inspired intention recognition system applied to simple animations using Java and ECLiPSe/Prolog.* Initiated and organized a workshop for worldwide experts in intention recognition; video-recorded the talks and created a website for the community: intentionperception.org

* Designed and built a webmail frontend (in C#). The U.S. National Federation for the Blind said the accessibility features "stand head and shoulders" above Gmail. Mentored 3 junior engineers as part of this project.* Designed and built a suite of Java servlets to support editing A/B testing rules for AOL Search. (U.S. patent 7,593,928, “Dynamically altering search result page layout to increase user response”, third author)* Designed and built Voicemail, Email, Address Book, PhoneCall, Sports, and Weather front-ends (in C++) for the AOLbyPhone speech recognition service. The business logic and outside dependencies of any one of these apps are complicated enough to normally require a team each. Carried each one to completion while maintaining the others. At launch of Voicemail, we had 99.95% of user sessions experiencing no errors or delays.* Designed and built calendar sync via Funambol.* Built SOAP client (in C) for exposing online picture storage as a virtual file system. This will also be published by AOL as an exemplar to partners who want to use our SOAP service.

Created vBrowse, the first open-source voice browser, on my own initiative on my own time. It's a Java- and Javascript-based VoiceXml browser. Quack.com and AOLbyPhone were considering switching from their proprietary voice technology. Created this browser to teach myself all the issues we were likely to face if we transitioned to the new VoiceXml standard.

A startup that offered voice services such as sports scores, weather, and free phone calls. It competed with Tellme and actually beat them to national launch by a month. Bought out by AOL in 2000 just before the merger with TimeWarner.* Designed and built a suite of Java servlets to support editing A/B testing rules for AOL Search. This tool involved JDBC, Xerxes, and multithreaded servlets. (US patent 7,593,928, “Dynamically altering search result page layout to increase user response”, third author)* Designed and built a Java module for syncing calendar data that sits within a Funambol.com sync server (open source) and which connects user devices with AOL's calendar server.* Designed and built a webmail frontend (in Javascript and C#/ASP.NET) that supports low-end browsers and users with accessibility needs, all while providing an optimal experience for typical users. The National Federation for the Blind said it "stands head and shoulders" above Gmail.* Designed and built Ajax/Push protocol, plus AIM library facade (in Javascript and C#/ASP.NET), for AIMExpress, a browser-based IM client.* Designed and built Voicemail, Email, Address Book, PhoneCall, Sports, and Weather frontends (in C++) for the AOLbyPhone speech recognition service. The business logic and outside dependencies of any one of these apps are complicated enough to normally require a team each. Carried each one to completion while maintaining the others. At launch of Voicemail, we had 99.95% of user sessions experiencing no errors or delays.* Built SOAP client (in C) for exposing online picture storage as a virtual file system. This was published by AOL as an exemplar to partners who wanted to use our SOAP service.

Collaboratively designed and developed a system that created military training scenarios to fit specified target skills.

Designed and developed an email authoring tool that prompted the user about their social goals and circumstances and generated drafts.