Jacques Ludik

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Co-Founder @ Sustainable Technology Ventures Capital
Cape Town, WC, ZA
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Dr Jacques Ludik is a smart technology entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert, founder of multiple AI companies, author, global keynote speaker, and award-winning AI Leader with a Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI) and 25+ years' experience in AI, Machine Learning & Data Science and its applications. Dr Ludik's latest book is titled "Democratizing Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone". He is currently Founder & CEO of Cortex Group and Cortex Logic as AI Engine for Business focused on providing scalable personalized AI-enabled wellness solutions, where Vive Teens is spun-out company focused on teenage mental health and Journey Wellness is a health wellness solution; and Founder & President of the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA) focused on transforming Africa through AI. Jacques has also introduced a massive transformative purpose for humanity and its associated goals to help shape a beneficial human-centric future and founded Sapiens.Network as a decentralized, human-centric, user-controlled AI-driven super platform. He has also founded CSense Systems (Africa's first AI company that was sold to a multinational company, specifically General Electric in 2011) and is involved in building AI-based wellness, trading, and smart education based companies with data rich platforms that leverages AI technologies to unlock business, customer and societal value. Apart from his executive management roles in these companies, he was previously VP Data Science & Chief Data Officer at Jumo, Director and Big Data & Analytics Leader at General Electric and Senior Lecturer & Researcher at Stellenbosch University. Dozens of his papers on AI were published in Journals & International Conferences as well as a book, Neural Networks and Psychopathology, published by Cambridge University Press (UK). He also has a patent filed for Knowledge Fusion. Jacques holds a B.Sc. (Cum Laude), Hons. B.Sc. (Cum Laude), M.Sc. (Cum Laude), & Ph.D. degrees from Stellenbosch University.Dr Ludik currently also serves on the Advisory Boards of Cirrus, Data Science Nigeria, AICE in Kenya, and Verchool and member of the AI Africa Consortium, and is a Swiss Cognitive Global AI Ambassador. In 2019, he is also the recipient of Africa’s AI Leader of the Year Award. His MTP is to help shape a better future in the Smart Technology Era (helping business and society thrive). He is also passionate to help transform Africa through Smart Tech such as AI, building AI communities & exponential organizations. See also jacquesludik.com

Jacques Ludik's Current Company Details
Sustainable Technology Ventures Capital

Sustainable Technology Ventures Capital

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Cape Town, WC, ZA
Jacques Ludik Work Experience Details
  • Sustainable Technology Ventures Capital
    Co-Founder
    Sustainable Technology Ventures Capital
    Cape Town, Wc, Za
  • Cortex Logic
    Founder & Group Ceo, Executive Chairman, Cortex Group; Founder & Ceo, Cortex Logic
    Cortex Logic Aug 2019 - Present
    Cape Town, Za
    Cortex Logic is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software and Solutions company that helps businesses thrive in the Smart Technology Era. We work across multiple business and industry domains seeking to augment and automate legacy processes, ultimately transforming them into intelligent systems, using the Cortex Logic AI Engine. We leverage a unique AI Engine for Business that solves strategic and operationally relevant problems by unlocking the value offered by the 4th Industrial Revolution and by mobilizing Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT), as well as Big Data and Analytics.The Cortex Group is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused holding Company building value in the IR4.0 Economy on a Local, Regional and Global Scale. The Cortex Group works across multiple business and industry domains to develop cutting edge intelligent systems and AI driven companies / platforms that leverage our unique mix of IP, access to funding, technology, people, partners and extensive community. The Cortex Group is made up of six brands each focusing on a different part of the AI Ecosystem namely; Asset Management, FinTech, Health, AI Products, AI focused VC Investments and a Portfolio of AI powered platform businesses that we have partnered with or invested in.
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  • Cortex Logic
    Founder & Group Ceo, Cortex Group; Founder & Managing Director Of Cortex Logic
    Cortex Logic Apr 2019 - Present
    Cape Town, Za
    Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software and Solutions company that helps businesses thrive in the Smart Technology Era. We work across multiple business and industry domains seeking to augment and automate legacy processes, ultimately transforming them into intelligent systems, using the Cortex Logic AI Engine. We leverage a unique AI Engine for Business that solves strategic and operationally relevant problems by unlocking the value offered by the 4th Industrial Revolution and by mobilizing Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT), as well as Big Data and Analytics.The Cortex Group is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused holding Company building value in the IR4.0 Economy on a Local, Regional and Global Scale. The Cortex Group works across multiple business and industry domains to develop cutting edge intelligent systems and AI driven companies / platforms that leverage our unique mix of IP, access to funding, technology, people, partners and extensive community. The Cortex Group is made up of six brands each focusing on a different part of the AI Ecosystem namely; Asset Management, FinTech, Health, AI Products, AI focused VC Investments and a Portfolio of AI powered platform businesses that we have partnered with or invested in.
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  • Cortex Logic
    Founder & Ceo
    Cortex Logic Jul 2015 - Mar 2019
    Cape Town, Za
    Dr Jacques Ludik is Founder & CEO of Cortex Logic, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and solutions company that helps businesses thrive in the Smart Technology Era. To that end, Cortex Logic provides an AI Engine for Business that solves strategic and operationally relevant problems through operationalizing Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data & Analytics and delivering state-of-the-art AI-based applications, solutions and products. Cortex Logic’s Library of AI-based solutions addresses business value drivers that leads to an optimized business, a satisfied customer base, productive employees and smart systems to help accelerate decision making, innovation, collaboration, and growth. Some of these solutions include strategic business transformation & optimization, human capital valuation & employee profiling, intelligent virtual assistants, robo-advisors, process optimization, predictive maintenance, fraud detection, churn prediction, advanced risk scoring, machine learning-based trading, real-time customer insights, smart recommendations and purchase prediction, personalized search, cyber security, medical risk prediction, & precision medicine. It provides AI-based solutions for finance, healthcare, education, retail, telecoms, resources, utilities, the public sector and other industries where the automation of tasks and data monetization can lead to economic benefit, scalability and productivity. To help unlock the tremendous value across multiple industries world-wide, Cortex Logic is building a world-class team of artificial intelligence and machine learning experts, data scientists, data and solution architects, data engineers, business intelligence engineers, business analysts, software developers, domain experts, and out-of-the-box thinkers. The company also aims to contribute towards advancing AI and building cognitive systems that are contextually aware, learn at scale, reason with purpose and interact with humans naturally.
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  • Cortex Group
    Founder, Group Ceo & Executive Chairman
    Cortex Group Sep 2019 - Present
    Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape, Za
    The Cortex Group Is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused holding company building value in the IR4.0 Economy on a Local, Regional and Global Scale.The Cortex Group works across multiple business and industry domains to develop cutting edge intelligent systems and AI driven companies / platforms that leverage our unique mix of IP, access to funding, technology, people, partners and extensive community.The Cortex Group is made up of five brands each focusing on a different part of the AI Ecosystem namely; Asset Management, Health, AI Products, AI focused VC Investments and a collaborative lab of AI powered platform businesses that we have partnered with or invested in.Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software and Solutions Company that helps Businesses thrive in the Smart Technology Era.Cortex Asset Management provides AI-powered Asset Management Solutions and Products to Financial Market Participants to provide superior Investment Outcomes.Cortex Health is an African AI-driven Healthcare, Precision Medicine and Biotechnology Company that provides Improved and Smarter Healthcare Services.Cortex Ventures is an AI-focused seed to growth stage Venture Capital Company that develops, incubates and invests in entrepreneurial businesses within African AI Communities to help accelerate their growth and international expansion.Cortex Labs is a portfolio of AI-powered Platform Businesses that we have partnered with or invested in to help build Scalable Exponential Organizations
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  • Cortex Group
    Founder & Group Ceo
    Cortex Group Jan 2019 - Present
    Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape, Za
    The Cortex Group Is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused holding company building value in the IR4.0 Economy on a Local, Regional and Global Scale. The Cortex Group works across multiple business and industry domains to develop cutting edge intelligent systems and AI driven companies / platforms that leverage our unique mix of IP, access to funding, technology, people, partners and extensive community.The Cortex Group is made up of five brands each focusing on a different part of the AI Ecosystem namely; Asset Management, Health, AI Products, AI focused VC Investments and a collaborative lab of AI powered platform businesses that we have partnered with or invested in.Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software and Solutions Company that helps Businesses thrive in the Smart Technology Era.Cortex Asset Management provides AI-powered Asset Management Solutions and Products to Financial Market Participants to provide superior Investment Outcomes.Cortex Health is an African AI-driven Healthcare, Precision Medicine and Biotechnology Company that provides Improved and Smarter Healthcare Services.Cortex Ventures is an AI-focused seed to growth stage Venture Capital Company that develops, incubates and invests in entrepreneurial businesses within African AI Communities to help accelerate their growth and international expansion.Cortex Labs is a portfolio of AI-powered Platform Businesses that we have partnered with or invested in to help build Scalable Exponential Organizations.
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  • Machine Intelligence Institute Of Africa
    Founder & President
    Machine Intelligence Institute Of Africa Jul 2015 - Present
    Somerset West, Western Cape, Za
    Jacques is Founder & President of the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA), a nonprofit organization that aims to help transform Africa by being an innovative community and accelerator to help address Africa's problems and unlocking its potential through Machine Intelligence, Data Science, and Internet of Things technologies. MIIA’s membership has been growing at a significant rate over the years. See https://miiafrica.org for details.MIIA aims to achieve this by networking together the critical mass of resources, promote and sponsor learning activities, and strengthen scientific and technological excellence, mentoring & collaboration on the continent. A core focus of MIIA’s activities is to accelerate and deliver breakthrough Machine Intelligence and Data Science research and practical applications to solve African problems, support entrepreneurial activity, and help drive long-term inclusive and sustainable scientific, technological and socio-economic development on the continent. For maximum impact, MIIA is working with a range of partners where there is synergy with MIIA's vision and mission and includes other nonprofit organizations, universities, research organizations, startup incubators, business & government organizations.Some key African problems include poor education & skills development, poor healthcare, lack of financial inclusion, lack of sustainable governance systems, poor infrastructure, energy shortages, food shortages, ineffective agriculture, lack of technology and manufacturing competitiveness, increasing water stress, poor sanitation, rising pollution, and weakening of representative democracy. MIIA’s current projects are organized into application, research and technology related projects to help address these problems, support entrepreneurial activity, support community building, learning & collaboration, as well as advancing the state-of-the-art in Machine Intelligence.
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  • Vive Teens
    Executive Director
    Vive Teens Sep 2021 - Present
    The company Vive Teen Wellness (viveyou.com) was spun out of Cortex Logic to deliver an AI-driven ultra-personalized wellness companion called Vive Teens that provides teens with world-class content, advice and human-led support with the following characteristics: (1) Available 24/7/365; (2) Addresses individual needs and concerns of teens as evidenced by their search and reading history; (3) Private, secure, safe; (4) Equips teens to cope with everyday challenges; (5) Helps teens develop into a well-balanced, emotionally mature, well-adjusted young adults. Vive Teens is a mobile application with a scalable cloud-based back-end where teens can access mental health resources and services all in one place for one price, guided by an AI, supported by their family and community.The platform that has been awarded in 2022 as a winner of the Youth Mental Health Challenge by the World Economic Forum.
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  • Journey Wellness
    Executive Director
    Journey Wellness Jan 2021 - Present
    Journey Wellness is a digital wellness platform that acts as an ultra-personalized wellness coach that serves users 24-7-365. From a company or organization perspective, it assists in improving employees’ wellbeing by showing them the path to better health. With Journey Wellness (journeywellness.co.za) the path to a healthier, happier person does not have to be a lonely road. Users can take charge of their wellbeing and let Journey’s intelligent platform help them rediscover their best self. By submitting personal health and lifestyle data, Journey helps users to learn about their current health status, under-laying health risks, how to better manage their health, change unhealthy lifestyle habits and improve their quality of life.The Journey Wellness platform was developed to provide wellness and lifestyle advice to the everyman. With an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine at its core, the platform learns and improves over time to continue providing real-world value to employers, funders and users alike.It further helps employers to be proactive about employee wellness. A company’s Employee Assistance Program can do so much more than resolve employees’ personal problems by taking a proactive approach with Journey Wellness as it goes to work (1) to incentivize employees to grow based on their personal wellness profiles; (2) improve morale and team culture; (3) attract and retain the best talent; (4) improve employee engagement and communication; (5) prevent disease through proactive intervention; and (6) reduce absenteeism and presenteeism.Journey Wellness also helps to manage the risk for funders while delivering value. By triangulating the data from a Medical Scheme, Insurance product or Captive Cell with Journey’s lifestyle indicators, enables pointing members to the care plans and benefits that is best suited to them. The funder can manage the risk based on real-world lifestyle data, while offering incentives that create win-win relationships.
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  • Swisscognitive, World-Leading Ai Network
    Global Ai Ambassador
    Swisscognitive, World-Leading Ai Network Jan 2022 - Present
    Zug, Zug, Ch
    SwissCognitive, World-Leading AI Network is a global community of business leaders and AI experts driving the development of AI forward and turning it into a key economy-booster.
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  • Digital First® Magazine
    Expert Columnist At Digital First Magazine
    Digital First® Magazine May 2023 - Present
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalfirstmagazine AI and Web3: The Next Generation of the Internet for a Decentralized Worldhttps://www.digitalfirstmagazine.com/ai-and-web3-the-next-generation-of-the-internet-for-a-decentralized-world/
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  • Verchool Holdings
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    Verchool Holdings Jul 2022 - Present
    Dubai, Ae
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  • Aice Africa
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    Aice Africa Jan 2022 - Present
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  • Ai Africa Consortium
    Member Of The Ai Africa Consortium
    Ai Africa Consortium Jan 2021 - Present
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  • Cirrus Ai
    Advisory Council Member
    Cirrus Ai Sep 2019 - Present
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  • Data Science Nigeria
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    Data Science Nigeria Jan 2019 - Present
    Yaba, Lagos, Lagos, Ng
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  • Bennit A.I.
    Founder & Cto
    Bennit A.I. Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
    Cleveland, Ohio, Us
    Jacques has founded Bennit Inc. with ex-GE colleagues in the USA where he acts, amongst others, in a CTO capacity to drive the Bennit AI technology and cognitive solution. Bennit AI is an intelligent virtual assistant to support manufacturing users with respect to productivity, safety, communications and access to relevant information. Bennit is a self-learning, highly personalized virtual production assistant specifically designed for industry, making the time and efficiency of industrial users its most important mission, every minute of every day. Bennit AI layers across existing technologies to drastically simplify and improve access to information, helping industrial users make better decisions and improve business outcomes. As a pioneer in cognitive computing and on-demand expert collaboration in Industry, we are rethinking the traditionally complex and capital-centric model of technology adoption that limits business agility. We are removing the friction. Welcome to Work, Evolved.
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  • Jumo.World
    Vice President Data Science | Chief Data Officer
    Jumo.World Aug 2015 - May 2016
    Cape Town, Western Cape, Za
    Jacques held the position of Vice President, Data Science & Chief Data Officer at Jumo, a next generation mobile money marketplace for people, small businesses and mobile network operators in the emerging markets. Jumo's technology creates access for people and businesses to great product choices provided by banks and other financial services providers. Apart from building up a strong Data Intelligence organisation consisting of Data Science, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Customer Intelligence teams, Jacques has also grown Jumo's Big Data & Analytics scalability & maturity from an ad hoc to a managed/optimized state for each of the transformation categories: Intent, People, Process, Technology & Data. Jacques has also designed and implemented AWS cloud-based Big Data & Analytics infrastructure & Data Intelligence Machine and helped to define Jumo's marketplace integration platform & integration services.The vision of Jumo's Data Science is to maximize usable information by productizing intelligence in a scalable way. Its mission is to understand customers & automate prediction & analytics to empower users & drive highest business, partner & ecosystem value. The latter involves increased ARPU, transaction volumes & mobile wallet utility; growth in mobile money wallet base; reducing churn; fraud detection & prevention; improved product offering, customer experience, agent liquidity, & customer understanding & predictability.Specific goals to achieve this are a solid credit risk foundation with predictive machine learning-based models within a champion-challenger framework, a robust & scalable cloud-based data lake & warehouse with Spark processing, Feature library, Segmentation, Data Science toolbox, a range of analytics dashboards (Real-time Anomaly detection, Customer Intelligence, Analytics, Portfolio Management), and multiple services (Scoring, Model Performance & Retraining, Simulation, Forecasting, Optimization & Real-time Machine Learning).
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  • Jumo.World
    Vice President, Data Science
    Jumo.World Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
    Cape Town, Western Cape, Za
    Jacques held the position of Vice President, Data Science at Jumo (Jumo.World), a mobile money marketplace for African consumers, small businesses and mobile network operators. We are driving real-time access in Africa by using a data-driven system to determine the best rates and the best loan candidates – creating a better deal for both sides. The vision of Jumo's Data Science is to be a world class, well integrated, scalable, and impactful Data Science team that represents the “voice of our customers”, helps drive data acquisition, cultivates the richest data possible, and continuously delivers fast and effective data-driven insights in order to give customers access to the best possible choices via the Jumo platform and enable the company and our partners to make customer-driven decisions to drive the highest possible enterprise and ecosystem value. Apart from building out the Data Science team capacity and capabilities and providing analytics services to the rest of the organization, Jacques has also embarked on implementing the Industrial Data Corporation's Big Data and Analytics MaturityScape framework of stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for Jumo to effectively advance along the successive stages of Big Data & Analytics competency and maturity toward data-driven decision making. The maturity stages are ad hoc, opportunistic, repeatable, managed, and optimized whereas the measures consist of the following 5 categories/pillars as transformation catalysts to accelerate value generation: Intent (strategy, sponsorship, justification), People (skills, culture, organizational structure), Process (tracking, analysis, decisioning), Technology (adoption, performance, functionality) and Data (relevance, quality, availability).
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  • Ge
    Big Data & Analytics Leader, Ge Commercial Coe
    Ge 2014 - Jul 2015
    Boston, Ma, Us
    • Since 2014 Jacques has been driving Big Data & Analytics as well as the Industrial Big Data Early Access Program for GE Intelligent Platforms. • He still continues in this role in 2015 with GE IP Software & Services now being part of GE’s Commercial COE for the Industrial Internet in tight collaboration with GE’s Software COE in San Ramon (the latter at the time an investment from GE of USD 1.5 billion over a 3-year period). • The Industrial Big Data program involves a discovery and value assessment to define specific business use cases, reference architecture, requirements and organizational alignment for Big Data Analytics, transformation catalysts to accelerate the path to value generation, as well as providing software and hardware infrastructure, data ingestion and integration and data science services. • Jacques is also actively keeping track of the latest developments in Machine Intelligence, Big Data & Analytics, and the Internet of Things landscapes. He also has a special interest in Deep Learning and its applications.• Proficy suite & Predix platform for the Industrial Internet applications• Expertise with Big Data & Analytics tools, state-of-the-art Machine Learning software, Python and its ecosystem, and a range of web technologies. • He is also currently Site Leader for the Stellenbosch office and Director of GE Intelligent Platforms (Pty.) Ltd in South Africa, positions that he occupied since 2011.
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  • Ge
    Director, Ge Intelligent Platforms (Pty) Ltd
    Ge Apr 2011 - Jul 2015
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Director for GE Intelligent Platforms (Pty) Ltd in South Africa.GE Intelligent Platforms is now part of GE Corporate, Commercial COE.
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  • Ge
    Commercial & Technology Leader, Analytics
    Ge Jan 2013 - Apr 2014
    Boston, Ma, Us
    • In 2013 Jacques joined the leadership team of the Industrial Data Intelligence business (merging of the Operations Data Management and the Asset Intelligence businesses) where he held the positions of Advanced Analytics Leader and Commercial & Technology Leader for Proficy CSense in GE Intelligent Platforms.• Jacques has also been Site Leader for the Stellenbosch office and Director of GE Intelligent Platforms (Pty.) Ltd in South Africa, positions that he occupied since 2011.
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  • Ge
    Analytics Technology Leader; Advanced Analytics Applications Leader
    Ge Apr 2011 - Dec 2012
    Boston, Ma, Us
    • Jacques started his GE career in 2011 as Advanced Analytics Applications Leader and Technology Leader and part of the leadership team for GE’s Asset Intelligence business headquartered in Lisle (close to Chicago, USA). • At that time, he was not only leading the Advanced Analytics Applications engineering team in the USA, but also the Proficy CSense software development teams in Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Foxboro (USA). • From 2011-2012 he was also driving GE’s Common Analytics Framework project for GE Intelligent Platforms as well as GE IP’s Analytics in the Cloud initiative from a technical perspective.• Jacques has also been Site Leader for the Stellenbosch office and Director of GE Intelligent Platforms (Pty.) Ltd in South Africa, positions that he occupied since 2011.
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  • Csense Systems
    Founder, Executive Director, Joint Md, Cto, Coo
    Csense Systems Mar 1997 - Apr 2011
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za
    • Until GE’s acquisition of CSense Systems in April 2011, Jacques was Executive Director and Co-founder of CSense Systems and was not only involved in all aspects of the business, setting the vision, company strategy, business plans, financing, sales and operations management, but also in defining the technology and product direction and strategy, marketing (4Ps), competitive analysis, managing the software development team, training, as well as software and service delivery. • Jacques was also actively involved in signing up and training key solutions/engineering and distribution partners in North America, Australasia, Europe, and Africa to sell CSense software and services. • From a funding and financial point of view, Jacques has also driven and managed many successful Support Programme for Industrial Development (SPII) Grants from the Industrial Development Council of South Africa (1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009). • Apart from his CTO and COO responsibilities, he was then focused on driving the GE IP Knowledge Management Services and GE4GE business from CSense’s side, supporting the GE channel partners in the USA such as INS and Infolink as well as SAMs in their areas, and the CSense business in Australia and Asia, and specific international OEM business opportunities.• He also has a patent filed for Knowledge Fusion (Method of establishing a process decision support system).• Proficy CSense suite for data mining, process troubleshooting, process performance enhancement, asset monitoring and diagnostics, process control loop monitoring and diagnostics, advanced process control, and process optimization.• Deep artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and signal processing knowledge and expertise• Proficiency with historical (Historians, RDBMS, etc.) and real-time data sources (via OPC DA/UA, etc.), HMI/SCADA, DCS, MES, and ERP systems.
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  • Csense Systems
    Founder, Executive Director, Joint Md, Cto, Coo
    Csense Systems 1997 - Apr 2011
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za
    • Jacques co-founded NeuroGen and CSense Systems (previously known as Crusader Systems) in 1997. At CSense Systems he held a number of positions, including Joint Managing Director, COO, and CTO.• After about 14 years at CSense Systems (until 2011), he not only obtained experience in building a successful high-technology company with CSense software and services sold to clients in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Australia via CSense Systems’ international reseller and solution partner network, but has been involved with numerous successful data mining, process performance enhancement and process troubleshooting engineering projects all over the world in a number of industries (e.g., minerals, metal and mining, semiconductors, food & beverages, financial services sector, etc.), have many CSense-related articles published in magazines and papers, and has also presented numerous courses and seminars in the Process and Manufacturing Industries and Financial Services Sectors. • Jacques also has a strong data science skill set with deep knowledge and expertise in artificial intelligence, machine Learning, statistics and signal processing and the ability to use these techniques for data mining, process troubleshooting, process performance enhancement, asset monitoring and diagnostics, process control loop monitoring and diagnostics, advanced process control, and process optimization. • He also has a patent filed for Knowledge Fusion (Method of establishing a process decision support system).• He also has a strong software development (a range of programming languages and web technologies), software development management, engineering, as well as product management background and expertise.
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  • Csense Systems
    Founder, Executive Director, Joint Md, Cto, Coo
    Csense Systems 1997 - 2011
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za
    Consultation, Courses, Seminars and Presentations in Private Sector: • Multiple presentations and workshops to GE Businesses, GE customers, and its channel during 2 year OEM partnership agreement from April 2009 - March 2011:• Multiple world tours to USA, Europe and Asia/Australasia (e.g., Analytics workshop in China (Beijing & Shanghai) (2010))• Keynote speaker, workshops, etc. at International CSense User & Partner Conferences (2006, 2007, 2008, etc.)• Numerous CSense & Process Troubleshooting Training courses to customers and partners until 2011• Numerous presentations at conferences such as “International Heavy Minerals Conference“, “X-Change” and “Process Engineering in the Fast Lane”, presentations and training on process control and decision support artificial intelligence applications for process and manufacturing industry clients (1995, 1997-2007+); Numerous “Data Mining for Turnkey Analytical CRM”, “Data Mining for Effective CRM” and “Data Mining Automation” presentations and consultation to clients in the following sectors: Life Insurance, Short-term Insurance, Banking, Medical Insurance, Retail, Telecommunications, and Media (1996-2001); “Artificial Intelligence for Investment Applications” courses in Cape Town and Johannesburg (in collaboration with Fleming Martin) for about 70 of South Africa’s leading investment specialists and analysts (2000); Numerous “Predictive Modeling using Artificial Intelligence Technology” presentations to clients in the investment banking sector (1998-2000); Numerous “Data Integrity and Cleaning” presentations to clients in life insurance, short-term insurance, and telecommunications (1998-2000).• See Crusader Systems' section for more details on 1997-1998 period in this regard.
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  • Csense Systems
    Founder, Joint Md
    Csense Systems 1997 - 1998
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za
    Consultation, Courses, Seminars & Presentations (1997-1998):• Optimal Scientific Marketing Analysis Systems for Santam, Santam Head Offices, Bellville, November 1998• Artificial Intelligence workshop, A course in AI and the use of Basic ModelGen, Telkom representatives, Crusader Systems, Stellenbosch, November 1998.• Artificial and Computational Intelligence Technologies for Telecommunications, Telkom executives representing all the regions in South Africa, Villa Via Hotel, Gordon’s Bay, October 1998.• Artificial and Computational Intelligence Technologies for Market Segmentation, Santam, Cape Town, October 1998• Artificial and Computational Intelligence Technologies for Market Segmentation, Boland Bank, Paarl, October 1998• Artificial and Computational Intelligence Technologies for Market Segmentation, Sanlam, Cape Town, September 1998• ModelGen technology, Axiom, Stellenbosch, September 1998.• Artificial and Computational Intelligence Technologies for Asset Management and Portfolio Management, PSG, Cape Town, September 1998• Crusader’s tegnology roadmap, SSF SASOL, Secunda, September 1998.• AI and ModelGen technology, Mouton Associates & Trans-National Consultants, Cape Town, September 1998 • AI and Basic ModelGen, Telkom, Cape Town, September 1998• Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in the Financial Services Sector, Crusader Systems Financial workshop, Graduate Business School, University of Stellenbosch, September 1998.• AI and Basic ModelGen, Institute of Maritime Technology, Simons’s Town, July 1998.• Launch of Basic ModelGen, Mintek Auditorium, Mintek, Randburg, June 1998• Launch of Basic ModelGen, The Louis Building, Technopark, Stellenbosch, May 1998• Technology roadmap for ModelGen software, SASOL executives, Crusader Systems, Stellenbosch, April 1998.• Computational Intelligence Technologies for the Banking Environment, First National Bank, Johannesburg, April 1997.• Data segmentation and Data mining, ABSA, 1997.
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  • Health Economic Advisors
    Director
    Health Economic Advisors Jan 1998 - Dec 1999
    Director of Health Economic Advisors (Pty) LtdData Mining Advisor & Consultant
  • University Of Stellenbosch
    Senior Lecturer & Researcher, Computer Science Department
    University Of Stellenbosch 1993 - 1998
    Stellenbosch, Za
    Jacques started his career in 1993 as a Computer Science Lecturer and Researcher at Stellenbosch University, where dozens of his papers on Artificial and Computational Intelligence were published in Journals and International Conferences (in the USA, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia) as well as a book, Neural Networks and Psychopathology, published by Cambridge University Press (UK). A central theme of his research was focused on improving the state of-the art in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, in particular with respect to training, dynamics, and complexity of recurrent neural networks.Academic publications: • Books published: Neural Networks and Psychopathology, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1998; • 27 papers published in journals and international and national conferences; • 2 Chapters in Books • 4 Computer Science reports• Ph.D. dissertation• M.Sc. thesis• Hons. B.Sc. year project report • Reviewer for International Conferences, Journals, Courses, and M.Sc. & Ph.D theses• Supervisor for Hons.B.Sc and M.Sc. studentsResearch Collaborations:• Collaborative research with Prof Marcel Rijckaert and his Expert System Application Development Group, Chemical Engineering (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) • Prof Dan Stein, Dept of Psychology, SU• Chemical Engineering, SU• Business School, SUAcademic presentations: • 13 papers presented at international conferences; • Multiple Computer Science Colloquia and Other Seminars Presented from 1993-1997• Attended 17 international conferences, workshops, and coursesAcademic Awards, Research grants, Bursaries: • Various from FRD, Armscor, Milistan, SASOL, University of Stellenbosch, Harry Crossley, Catholic University of Leuven, & Telkom/Datafusion Systems/Pentax.Computer Science Courses lectured• Neural Networks • Compiler Construction • Structured Computer Organization • Data Structures and Algorithms • Introduction to Computer Science• Applied Computer Science - IWWOUS
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  • University Of Stellenbosch
    Lecturer, Researcher, Software Developer, Student
    University Of Stellenbosch Jan 1993 - Mar 1995
    Stellenbosch, Za
    • Jacques attended Stellenbosch University and graduated with a B.Sc. Degree (Cum Laude) in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Math, and Physics in 1987, and followed that up with Hons. BSc. Degree (Cum Laude) in Computer Science in March 1989 and a M.Sc. Degree (Cum Laude) in Computer Science in March 1991. He then graduated from Stellenbosch University in March 1995 with a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science. • A central theme of his post graduate studies was focused on improving the state of-the art in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, in particular with respect to training, dynamics, and complexity of recurrent neural networks as well as the parallelization of neural networks for improved training efficiency.• Jacques started his career in 1993 as a Computer Science Lecturer and Researcher at Stellenbosch University, where dozens of his papers on Artificial and Computational Intelligence were published in Journals and International Conferences (in the USA, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia) as well as a book, "Neural Networks and Psychopathology", published by Cambridge University Press (UK).• Software Developer (Artificial Intelligence applications and War Games), Institute for Maritime Technology, Simons Town 6-7/1985, 6-7/1986, 6-7/1987• Software Developer (Artificial Intelligence applications), Milistan, Pretoria, 1-2/1989• Junior Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch, 1993-1994.• Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch, 1995-1996• Senior Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, University of Stellenbosch, 1996 - March 1998Computer skills and expertise• C++, C , Parallel Pascal (for parallelization of neural network training on transputers), Fortran, Pascal, LISP, Prolog• Compilers• Structured computer organization• Data Structures and Algorithms
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  • Neurogen Cc
    Founder, Business Partner
    Neurogen Cc Jan 1996 - Dec 1997
    Boston, Ma, Us
    • Developed software for real-time data processing and machine learning• Data Science ConsultationDeep artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and signal processing knowledge and expertise• Recurrent Neural Networks, Supervised Learning methods, Unsupervised Learning methods, Reinforcement Learning methods, Decision Trees, Expert systems, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Optimization, Evolutionary Optimization, Linear and Nonlinear optimization, simulation, FFT, Statistics, etc. • Data mining and modelling of a wide variety of data setsConsultation, Courses, Seminars & Presentations:• Intelligent Hybrid Decision Support Systems, GENCOR (MD and top management), 1996.• Computational Intelligence Technologies for Underwriting, Old Mutual, 1996.• Neural Networks and Expert systems for Underwriting, SANLAM and Mercantile & General, 1996.• Intelligent Technologies for Real-World Applications, Grinaker Electronics, December 1995.
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Jacques Ludik Skills

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Jacques Ludik Education Details

  • Stellenbosch University
    Stellenbosch University
    Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
  • Stellenbosch University
    Stellenbosch University
    Artificial Intelligence
  • Stellenbosch University
    Stellenbosch University
    Computer Science (Including Applied Mathematics Subject)
  • Stellenbosch University
    Stellenbosch University
    Physics

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