About

Vladimir is an expert in Natural Language Understanding and Speech Recognition, with a track record of two startups he had founded in the field, as well as 15 years of experience. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and has represented Israel in international youth chess tournaments around the world.

Ilya has a broad background in areas ranging from maps/navigation, through geometry/imaging and data mining, to theatre. He combines both industrial, entrepreneurial and academic experience and likes to jump-start things for the fun of it. He also happens to have authored a number of publications and patents and holds a few graduate degrees in Computer Science from USC and Israel’s Technion.

Boris has been contributing natural language technologies to Silicon Valley startups over the last two decades. In 1999 he co-founded iAskWeb which was providing tax and investment recommendations to customers of several Fortune 500 companies. He contributed his email understanding technology to Xoopit, acquired by Yahoo in 2009. He received his PhD in natural language understanding in 1994 and ANECA/EU Associate Professorship degree in 2011. Boris authored more than 60 publications, a book and multiple patents in natural language understanding.