Biography:Catherine Havasi
Catherine Havasi | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (S.B., 2003) (M.Eng, 2004) Brandeis University (Ph.D, 2009) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence |
| Thesis | Discovering Semantic Relations Using Singular Value Decomposition[citation needed] (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Pustejovsky[citation needed] |
Catherine Havasi (born 1981) is an American scientist who specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab.[1] She is co-founder and CEO of AI company Luminoso.[2] Havasi was a member of the MIT group engaged in the Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project and that created the natural language AI program ConceptNet.[3][4]
Early life and education
Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence from reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind.[5] She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became involved in the MIT Media Lab and studied under Minsky.[5] She received a Ph.D in computer science from Brandeis University.[4]
Career
In 1999, she became involved in the MIT project Open Mind Common Sense with Minsky and Push Singh,[3] and was part of a team that created ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database.[5]
In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company building on the work of ConceptNet.[6]
Havasi was named among Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40", of business and civic leaders making a major impact in their respective fields in 2014.[4] Fast Company included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing.[2]
She is co-author of 7 peer-reviewed journal articles on AI and language, and many per-reviewed major conference presentations,[7]
Selected publications
Most cited publication
- Cambria, Erik, Bjorn Schuller, Yunqing Xia, and Catherine Havasi. "New avenues in opinion mining and sentiment analysis." IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems 28, no. 2 (2013): 15-21. (cited 701 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
- Havasi, Catherine, Robert Speer, and Jason Alonso. "ConceptNet 3: a flexible, multilingual semantic network for common sense knowledge." In Recent advances in natural language processing, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007. pp. 27-29.Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2007. (cited 341 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
- Speer, Robert, and Catherine Havasi. "Representing General Relational Knowledge in ConceptNet 5."In LREC, pp. 3679–3686. 2012. (cited 227 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
Other publications
- Catherine Havasi, Robert Speer, James Pustejovsky, and Henry Lieberman.'Digital Intuition: Applying Common Sense Using Dimensionality Reduction. IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems, 24(4) July 2009. (cited 97 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
- Robert Speer, Catherine Havasi, and Henry Lieberman.AnalogySpace: Reducing the dimensionality of common sense knowledge. Proceedings of AAAI vol. 8, pp. 548–553.2008, July 2008. (cited 193 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
References
- ↑ Campbell, MacGregor (23 July 2013). "AI scores same as a 4-year-old in verbal IQ test". New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23916-ai-scores-same-as-a-4yearold-in-verbal-iq-test.html#.VYpwz6aCzV0. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Titlow, John Paul (June 2015). "The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2015: Catherine Havasi". Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/3043978/most-creative-people-2015/catherine-havasi. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Havasi, Catherine (9 August 2014). "Who's Doing Common-Sense Reasoning And Why It Matters". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/09/guide-to-common-sense-reasoning-whos-doing-it-and-why-it-matters/. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harris, David (16 October 2014). "40 Under 40: Catherine Havasi of Luminoso". Boston Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2014/10/16/40-under-40-catherine-havasi-of-luminoso.html. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Cline, Keith (25 June 2014). "Dr. Catherine Havasi – From the MIT Media Lab to Co-Founder & CEO". Venture Fizz. http://www.venturefizz.com/node/37289. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ↑ Alba, Davey (12 February 2015). "The Startup That Helps You Analyze Twitter Chatter in Real Time". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2015/02/luminoso/. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ↑ "Catherine Havasi". Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Catherine+Havasi&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
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