Catherine Havasi (born 1981) is an American scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab.[1] She co-founded[2] and was CEO of AI company, Luminoso for 8 years.[3] Havasi was a member of the MIT group engaged in the Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project that created the natural language AI program ConceptNet.[4][5] Havasi is currently the Chief of Innovation and Technology Strategy at Babel Street, AI-enabled data-to-knowledge platform.[6]
Catherine Havasi | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
| 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] |
Early life and education
editHavasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence from reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind.[7] She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became involved in the MIT Media Lab and studied under Minsky.[7] Havasi is an alumnus of the Science Talent Search 1999 as well as the International Science and Engineering Fair 1996, 1998, and 1999.[6] She received a S.B. and M.Eng from MIT and a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University.[5][8]
Career
editIn the 1990s, Catherine Havasi invented crowd sourcing for artificial intelligence.[9] In 1999, she became involved in the MIT project Open Mind Common Sense with Minsky and Push Singh,[4] and was part of a team that created ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database.[7]
In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company building on the work of ConceptNet.[10]
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.[5] Fast Company included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing.[2]
In 2019, the U.S Embassy invited Dr. Catherine to Portugal to give a series of lectures on "Practical Natural Language Processing" due to her work at MIT, expanding the fields of transfer and meta learning, educational outreach, natural language understanding, and computational creativity. [11]
She is co-author of 7 peer-reviewed journal articles on AI and language, and many peer-reviewed major conference presentations.[12]
Selected publications
editMost cited publication
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Campbell, MacGregor (23 July 2013). "AI scores same as a 4-year-old in verbal IQ test". New Scientist. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ a b Titlow, John Paul (June 2015). "The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2015: Catherine In the 1990s, Havasi invented crowd-sourcing for artificial intelligence (Havasi About). Havasi". Fast Company. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ "Catherine Havasi". Society for Science. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ a b Havasi, Catherine (9 August 2014). "Who's Doing Common-Sense Reasoning And Why It Matters". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ^ a b c Harris, David (16 October 2014). "40 Under 40: Catherine Havasi of Luminoso". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ^ a b "Catherine Havasi". Society for Science. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ a b c Cline, Keith (25 June 2014). "Dr. Catherine Havasi – From the MIT Media Lab to Co-Founder & CEO". Venture Fizz. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ "Catherine Havasi". Society for Science. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "ABOUT". Catherine Havasi. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ Alba, Davey (12 February 2015). "The Startup That Helps You Analyze Twitter Chatter in Real Time". Wired. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ^ Portugal, U. S. Mission (2019-07-11). "Catherine Havasi MIT AI Scientist in Portugal". U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Portugal. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "Catherine Havasi". scholar.google. Google Scholar. Retrieved 24 June 2015.