Gregory Grefenstette Email & Phone Number

Paris, Fr

Paris, Fr

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Presentation on Predictive AI at IFA+ Summit, Berlin, Sept 2017

Cross Language Information RetrievalDistributional Semantics

Le Chesnay Cedex, France, Fr

• Manager research project on Personal Semantics• Adjunct director, Digital Society Institute• Steering Board, EU ETP New European Media• Won Taxonomy Induction Task at SemEval 2015https://www.lri.fr/~ggrefens/index.html

Vélizy-Villacoublay, Fr

• Chief Science Officer, 2008-2011• Developed virtual Digital Media Asset offer• Liaison with business and scientific community, messaging, about semantic processing (papers, talks, presentations)• Provide scientific oversight and guidance to the R&D (35 research engineers) in European and national research programs, publications• Produce arguments for intellectual property protection during patent suits• Organize international workshop and conferences (USETIM’2009, RIAO’2010, WWW 2012 Industry track)

Paris, France, Fr

• Manage portfolio of research and engineering projects (10 projects with funding of $2m/yr) • Provide scientific oversight and guidance to the research team (18 researchers) • Manage team recruitment and development • Manage technology transfer and intellectual property protection • Organize international workshop and conferences (e.g. OntoImage’2006, RIAO’2007) • Numerous papers, publications • Head of LIC2M laboratory, 2005-2006• Lagardere Foundation Laureate, innovative ideas 2007-2008http://www.kalisteo.org/demo/semanticmap/

• Built and managed the Clairvoyance text mining team • Researched means for exploiting the web to solve a variety of natural language processing tasks. Results were transferred to, and used in commercial products by, JustSystems Corp • Co-ordinated Japanese-US research campaign in information retrieval (NTCIR-3, -4) • Organized international conferences (RIAO’2004) ; guest editor “Web as Corpus” Computational Linguistics journal • Patents, papers and publications

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

• led Multilingual Text Mining Team (5 Phds and engineers); organized new hires • created prototypes (text summarizer for blind, creating communities by monitoring work web browsing, document souls), leading to 16 of my granted US Xerox patents • coordinated information retrieval research between XRCE and Xerox PARC TREC 4,5,6) • served on Xerox Technical Advisory Panel reviewing merit of patent applications • oversaw transfer of research technology to commercial projects (language identifier to ScanSoft; natural language processing technology (NLP) to Inxight, Xerox XELDA NLP platform to Xerox MKMS [subsequently sold to TEMIS]) • help build advanced prototyping team for Document Souls; helped build business plan, documentation and presentations for Document Souls (including personal presentations to Xerox leadership Paul Allaire, Anne Mulcahy) • adapted Software Product Improvement methods to XRCE research

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

taught undergraduate computer science, research in natural language processing

taught master level computer science courses

Les Clayes-Sous-Bois, France, Fr

integrated a natural language processing step into a commercial information retrieval system (MISTRAL), computer engineering, debugging, code maintenance, FORTRAN

Phd, Computer Science

Thèse 3Eme Cycle, Computer Science

D.E.A, Computer Science

Maitrise Es Sciences, Informatique

B.S., Mathematical Sciences

Freshman Year, Computer Science