Symposium Speakers
- TopicRank: Bringing insight to users (SIGIR2008)
- OPTIMA: A System for Semi Automatic and Large Scale Ontology Population (ASWC2007)
- Morphological annotation of Korean with Directly Maintainable Resources (LREC2006)
- Semano: Semantic Annotation Tool for Asian Language (ASWC2006)
- S-Cube: A Semantic-based Middleware System for Context-Aware Services (ISWC2005)
Meta S. Brown is a consultant, speaker and writer who promotes the use of business analytics. She has conducted over 4,000 hours of
presentations about business analytics, and written guides on neural networks, quality improvement, statistical process control, and many
other statistical methods.
Meta S. Brown holds a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Bachelor of Science in
Mathematics from Rutgers University, and professional certifications from the American Society for Quality and National Association for
Healthcare Quality. She has served on the faculty of Roosevelt University and National-Louis University.
Jeff Catlin has over 15 years of experience in the fields of search, classification and text analytics products and services. He has held technical, managerial and senior management positions within a variety of companies including Thomson Financial and Sovereign Hill Software. Prior to the formation of Lexalytics, Jeff acted as the General Manager for the unstructured data group of LightSpeed Software where he was responsible for sales, marketing and development efforts for the Knowledge Appliance and iFocus products. Prior to joining LightSpeed, he was co-owner of PleasantStreet Technologies which produced a news-filtering product. Jeff graduated from UMass Amherst with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987.
Sharon Chiarella is Vice President of Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace for work that provides programmatic access to a global, crowdsourcing community. In this role, Sharon works with businesses of all sizes to leverage technology and the "crowd" on the internet to get work done faster and at lower cost. Ms. Chiarella has over 20 years of experience in building innovative high-technology businesses in cloud computing, crowdsourcing, online photo sharing, digital video recording, and video on demand.
Prior to joining Amazon Mechanical Turk, Sharon was the Vice President of Product Management and Business Development at Presto Services (a Kleiner-Perkins and Clearstone funded startup).
Lipika Dey is a Senior Consultant and Principal Scientist at Tata
Consultancy Services, India. She heads the Text Analytics and Enterprise
Search research group at Innovation Labs, Delhi. Her focus is on seamless
integration of social intelligence and business intelligence. Lipika's
research interests are in the areas of noisy text analytics, sentiment
analysis and opinion mining, machine learning and semantic search of
enterprise content. Lipika has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
from IIT Kharagpur. Prior to joining Tata Consultancy Services in 2007,
she was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi from 1995 to 2007. She has over 60
publications in International journals and refereed conference
proceedings. She is a Programme Committee member for various
International Conferences. Lipika is a co-chair for the upcoming Workshop
on Analysis of Noisy Data (AND) to be held along with ICDAR at Beijing in
September 2011.
Kathleen is a social media intelligence manager at Hewlett-Packard, one of the largest information technology companies
globally. She has spent over 14 years working as a digital marketer for leading bio-tech and enterprise technology companies such
as Applied Biosystems and Sun Microsystems. Currently Kathleen is developing editorial strategies for HP's Enterprise Business
communities, blogs and micro-blogs using social media intelligence and sentiment research. She is taking her in-depth analysis of
the blogosphere where IT Pros convene to provide direction on editorial content across all of HP's digital channels. This
includes HP's leading enterprise newsletter, Technology at Work, for which she is the Editor-in-Chief.
Since 2010 Banafsheh has been leading the design and implementation of differentiating constituent experience and relationship strategies of the American Red Cross across digital and off-line touch-points for a broad and diverse constituent-base that includes financial donors, blood donors, volunteers, active military personnel and their families, public health and safety instructors and their students, corporate and foundation partners and many more.
Prior to ARC, for 15+ years Banafsheh held executive leadership roles in the mobile and mobile internet industries in various capacities ranging from implementing innovative product and customer experience strategies, sales and channel strategy, CRM as well as other customer-centric technology investments.
Banafsheh has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland and an MBA from The George Washington University.
Seth Grimes is an analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation. He is contributing editor at TechWeb's InformationWeek, founding chair of the Text Analytics Summit, Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and Smart Content conference, and text analytics channel expert for TechTarget's BeyeNETWORK.com. He is the leading industry analyst covering text analytics. Seth consults, writes, and speaks on business intelligence, data management and analysis systems, text mining, visualization, and related topics.
Carol Haney led the development of Harris Interactive's Research
Lifestreaming, a panelist-based approach to social media monitoring. At
Harris, Carol is VP of Public Affairs & Policy and develops solutions for
clients such as the CDC, HHS, and others. At CDC, she helped reduce critical
cycle time by 60% for outbreak data collection. She has held management
postions at SPSS and NORC at the University of Chicago. At NORC, she
developed a speedy mechanism for pulling and marking area probability sample
from the national U.S. Census frame. Carol is an expert reviewer for CASRO's
social media privacy guidelines.
Lightning Talk Presenters
Shane Axtell is a Computational Linguist with Clarabridge. He oversees Clarabridge's sentiment analysis and linguistic capabilities.
Before joining Clarabridge, Shane worked as a Grammarian for Janya, Inc., which provides text and semantic processing for businesses and
law enforcement agencies. Shane received his B.A. in theoretical linguistics from Brigham Young University and his M.S. in computational
linguistics from SUNY Buffalo.
Bell has been involved in the software industry for nearly 13 years helping build organizations focused on desktop training,
search, automated metadata extraction, taxonomy creation, knowledge management and semantic technologies. He has an extensive
background helping grow software companies including Teach.com, Autonomy, APR Smartlogik and Concept Searching. Bell has developed
and executed sales, OEM and VAR strategies, reseller programs and other business development initiatives for a variety of
companies across multiple industries at crucial points in their maturation processes. As the VP of Enterprise Solutions, Bell is
responsible for developing a network of new partnerships with OEM's, value added resellers, system integrators and distributors
while driving enterprise sales in order to increase the worldwide adoption of semantic technology within the global enterprise.
John Feland is the founder and CEO of Argus Insights, a leader in Experience Analytics. In 2009-2010, Feland was the
Executive Director for Stanford University's ME310 Design Innovation course. In 2008, Feland served as Chief Technologist for SK
Telecom America's R&D Group. Prior to SKTA, Feland led Synaptics' marketing division to help handset manufacturers integrate
next-generation capabilities. Feland was the principle architect for the Onyx Concept Phone, the world?s first capacitive multi-touch
mobile experience. Feland holds an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford
University, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Shawn Rutledge is Chief Scientist at Visible Technologies, where he is responsible for authoring the applied research roadmap
and driving the scientific vision behind the Visible Intelligence software platform. He has broad knowledge and experience in
predictive modeling, statistical & machine learning, data & text mining, and information retrieval.
Marshall joined WiseWindow as president in 2009 after more than 30 years of working with marketers and technologists to spot extraordinary opportunities for his clients. Having seen at close range how the Internet is transforming both real-time data collection and decision-making, he merged the marketing research firm he founded, Core Strategies, with WiseWindow to discover where these trends would lead.
Mr. Williams, the 2010 recipient of the CTO of the Year Award from the Utah Technology Council, is a software design innovator with over ten years experience in
architecting solutions for technology startups. With extensive experience in enterprise-level software development, information architecture, and user experience design,
Kurt specializes in crafting solutions to complex business problems. He was Director of Software Design for BlueStep, Inc. where he was involved in the design and
implementation of a large scale Web-based collaboration system. He also worked with Sungard Data Systems as Director of Internet Technology where he was instrumental in
the research and development of Internet deployed financial services and CRM applications. While with Sungard, he created highly interactive Web-based solutions for
major clients including State Farm, USAA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IBM. Prior to his work with Sungard, Kurt founded the Web Solutions Group at Sterling Wentworth, a
financial services software company, where he Internet-enabled the organization's line of desktop applications. Before coming to Sterling Wentworth, Kurt developed
practice management software for The Hoehne Group, a healthcare software startup based in Park City, Utah where he helped build the first wave of electronic medical
records products based on the Windows platform. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Weber State University.
Research Session Presenters
Timothy Vogel has a B.S. in Genetics from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Statistics from Florida State University. After teaching and doing field research at the Newfound Harbor Marine Institute on Big Pine Key, FL and completing his graduate work, he began his career of applied predictive science in New York City with Sol Steinberg's Reliance Consulting Group. At RCG he worked for Fortune 500 companies like Kohler, Chamberlain, LaBaats, M&M/Mars, National Fruit, Celanese Chemicals, 3Com, Rich SeaPak, Warner-Lambert, Johnson & Johnson, Schering-Plough, Stanley Tools, Toyota and manufacturing institutes like the PMI in NYC and FIEI in Chicago.
From there he went on to lead applied data mining and predictive analytics efforts to companies around the country; National Demographics & Lifestyles, Abacus Direct/Double-Click, MCI, Andromedia, Macromedia, IBM, Cisco Systems, and Aggregate Knowledge.
His most recent post-graduate training in unstructured data analysis led him to apply Readware/Miti to the classification of online content while Chief Scientist at Aggregate Knowledge, Inc., eventually building several new patent pending predictive algorithms in social-graph mathematics, automated taxonomies, serendipitous discovery, stochastic behavioral clustering, and human decision-making in online situations. Tim lives and works in San Mateo, CA.
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