Richard Socher
Richard Socher is a visionary tech entrepreneur and AI expert. He is the Founder and CEO of You.com, a personalized AI-powered search engine, and Founder and Managing Partner of AIX Ventures, an AI-focused venture firm investing in pre- and seed startups. Socher is one of the most-cited researchers in AI, widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors, contextual vectors and prompt engineering. Prior to You.com, he served as Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President at Salesforce, where he led teams working on fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, cross product AI platform and structured data. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford Computer Science Department and Founder and CEO of MetaMind, a startup acquired by Salesforce.
Richard Socher Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and CEO
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Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President
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Adjunct Professor
Academic History
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Ph.D., Deep Learning, AI, Machine Learning
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
RESEARCH & EXPERTISE
Socher was one of the first to conduct research into language processing using neural networks and deep learning.
His work laid the foundation for the current AI revolution in large language models. He has over 185,000 citations.
His pioneering contributions include the development of Recursive Neural Networks (RNNs), have transformed natural language processing tasks such as sentiment analysis and machine translation.
RECOGNITIONS
2024 WEF Technology Pioneer
2023 Time 100 AI
2014 GigaOM Structure Award
2013 Brown Institute for Media Innovation's "Magic Grant"
2011 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Socher has given several guest lectures and participates in panel discussions.
He also regularly discusses developments in the field of machine learning with his research colleagues and computer science students.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.