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Purdys, New York, Us

Dreyev offers an in-vehicle “digital copilot” device that evaluates drivers for risky behavior. Through Computer Vision and Machine Learning, the Dreyev system analyzes driver conditions such as head pose and eyelid closure to detect distracted or drowsy driving and issues real-time alerts in the case of dangerous conditions.Telematics devices have been on the rise within the auto insurance industry. However, in-vehicle driver coaching is only just emerging. Most insurers use in-car sensors to collect driver data to incentivize certain behaviors or curate an insurance product. A system to monitor and correct driver behavior like the one Dreyev offers can present carriers with the opportunity to take telematics into the realm of loss prevention and risk mitigation. IoT and sensors go beyond helping insurers reduce claims; they also provide opportunities for new forms of consumer engagement and ways of broadening the insurance product experience beyond covering losses.

Wrocław, Lower Silesia, Pl

AI Technology for Digital Health and Clinical Decision Support

Miami Lakes, Florida, Us

SoundBite Inc. is aiming to end social isolation in the mobile world by re-establishing the human connection with your friends and family.

Purdys, New York, Us

Audio-visual platform for live, interactive, one-on-one tutoring and mentoring session at work or home, to master business communication skills and language proficiency.Alertness-boosting knowledge practice on the go, with an intelligent attention-monitoring virtual coach in the car.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

2013: Led architecture for dialog-based conversational capabilities in information retrieval for self-assist information retrieval systems.2012: Led a new initiative (Watson for Contact Centers) aimed at significantly improving quality and efficiency of technical support centers by providing human agents with fast and interactive access to relevancy-ranked information and troubleshooting procedures.2010-2011: Incubated and Managed business opportunities for the DeepQA technology developed for the Jeopardy!/Watson Grand Challenge. Launched Pilot implementation of a Virtual Assistant for Clinical Decision Support for specialists and Primary Care Physicians in collaboration with Columbia University and University of Maryland.2011: Started new research activity in secure mobile transactions using fusion of biometrics technologies, distributed between Cloud and mobile clients. First application in Trusted Security Authentication Management to protect access to patient information by physicians on their smartphones and tablets (iOS, Android).2009-2010 Directed speech UI integration as part of the Watson avatar in the Jeopardy! Grand Challenge.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led two projects with leading car manufacturers in Japan and Italy: in-car prototypes of natural speech input solutions, context- and environment-aware communication with the user to provide ease-to-use and safe access to information services, together with dialog-based guidance, for destination/ POI/ music selection, fuzzy search, one-shot destination entry and smart help.Led a 3-year FP6 EU-funded advanced project (DICIT) of hands-free remote control for entertainment centers in the living room (far-field mike-array operation and smart dialogs to supported multi-speaker scenarios, for natural browsing of Internet-based video content).Pioneered voice search, SMS dictation, social networking and fully automated mail transcription services in the mobile market by launching partnerships with select US start-ups.Managed development of advanced conversational dialog systems for use in telematics applications and mobile phone services by leading Japanese car manufacturer. Led research and implementation of a visual speech activity detection system: first prototype worldwide of Audio-Visual speech recognition, combined with head-pose detection, eye-gaze monitoring and lip-motion feature extraction for improved robustness in challenging noisy environments.Coordinated development between IBM Research and Speech Product division.Single-chip Embedded Speech Recognition solution for handheld devices (Pilot PDA and smart-phones).

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led design of a single-chip speech recognition prototype that ended in PowerPC 403 hw acceleration product for PDAs.Orchestrated and directed meetings with top executives, presentation pitches to Customer CEOs/CTOs. Joint development of Embedded Speech solutions with all leading chip providers for the wireless phone industry.Launched IBM Microelectronics involvement in Bluetooth.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led strategic partnerships with Eutelsat (France) and Philips for Europe-wide Satellite Data Broadcasting Services (DVB/MPEG2 TS) for high-speed Internet access.Launched joint project with Qualcomm (USA) on Speech Recognition for wireless handsets and SGS-Thomson (Italy) for Speech Recognition in car dashboard.Managed collaboration with IBM Research labs in USA on 8 projects: Image compression, speech recognition, Media Processor GPU, video streaming, video conferencing, low-power wireless communications, first WW FIPS-4 Crypto PCI card Worlwide for secure banking.Managed technology transfer from IBM Research and designed products for the European market: PowerPC 601- 604 Multimedia Motherboards, first WW PC Card for Video/Audio Capture/Playback on laptops, TV-Teletext-VBI/DataVideo, PC subsystem Videoconferencing PC Card, High-speed Bank Checks Scanner, first High-quality Film and Slide Scanner with automated dust/defects removal, RS/6000 Video Processing Card, PC real-time Image Processing System.Managed design of hw-assist cards for Speech Recognition: first IBM Speech Recognition product (1991 Italy, 1992 Europe, 1993 Worldwide) for Radiologists/Patologists.Managed European operations for PowerPC and OS/2 Technical Support in Europe.Created a high-performance Image Processing board and associated SW: IBM’s First textile CAD product (StilNovo 1989)

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