Motto: Do what you say and say what you mean. Raul co-founded OnlyBoth Inc. with Andre Lessa and is CEO. OnlyBoth has used its AI, user-experience, and web-services expertise to completely re-think and automate tasks of data-driven comparative analytics and reporting, such as benchmarking and multi-option comparison, with the goals of transparency, driving performance improvement, and empowering consumer choice, in healthcare and other sectors. Raul co-founded Vivisimo in 2000 and was CEO and Chairman for nine years until he recruited a succesor CEO in 2009. He remained as Executive Chairman until the acquisition by IBM in 2012.At Vivisimo he was a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (North Central Region), top ten reader favorite for Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. magazine, twice a CEO of the year finalist by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, CEO Communicator of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America (Pittsburgh chapter), and an Outstanding Alumni Career Achievement by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before Vivísimo, Raul was on the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department faculty. His research on methods and applications of knowledge discovery led to 50 journal articles and book chapters in natural, social and computer science. He was sole principal investigator on seven National Science Foundation research grants and action editor of the journal Machine Learning. He got a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in 1991, advised by Herbert A. Simon (Turing Award 1975 and Nobel Laureate 1978) and a BS/MS in information engineering from the Univ of Illinois at Chicago.My core AI expertise:- Cognitive task analysis: Figure out what conclusions or inferences people actually make, or could make, from data or text, plus background knowledge.- Task automation: Combine classical computer science with heuristic methods to accomplish the task with software.
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