Babak Hodjat

* High-level practical-minded versatile entrepreneur technologist with extensive executive engineering management and leadership experience with a strong belief in and understanding of practical Artificial Intelligence. Author of "The Konar and the Apple" * CTO-AI, Cognizant Technologies * Founder and Chief Scientist of Sentient Technology (formerly known as Genetic Finance LLC), a Distributed AI Company. * Previously founder and CTO of Mobileverbs, a SaaS platform for mobile marketing. Sold to iLoop Mobile. * Previously the Senior Director of Engineering at Sybase iAnywhere leading Mobile Solutions engineering including, the Avantgo Service, On-Demand Enterprise Solutions and the Answers Anywhere product suite. * Previously, co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc., Sold to Sybase. * Primary inventor of patented agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing (later became the inspiration and basis for Siri). * Served as acting CEO of Dejima for 9 months from October 2000. * Led several large computer networking and machine learning projects at Neda. * Actively advise several Silicon Valley start-ups on AI and ML related topics. * Published scholar in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence with more than 50 publications, and more than 30 patents. * Ph.D in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, Japan. Specialties: Extensive executive engineering management and leadership experience with a strong belief in and understanding of usability and AI. Hands-on software engineering experience including Python, Java, J2ME, J2EE, C, C++, Pascal, Modula 2, Smalltalk, Prolog, Fortran, Assembly Language (Z80, 80x86, 68000, PDP-11), SOAP, XML, Ant, JavaCC, SQL, Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Speech Recognition Systems.