Elijah Mayfield Biography

Elijah Mayfield is the founder and CEO of LightSide a company that is enabling broad access to writing across the curriculum in education using text assessment powered by machine learning. He received his master’s degree in language technology from Carnegie Mellon University and he was a recipient of a 2011 Siebel Scholarship and a 2013 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. His work has been featured by NPR Education Week and EdSurge among many others and his research on LightSide for automated assessment was highlighted as an Editor’s Choice in Science. He also is an author or co-author on more than 25 peer-reviewed publications on language technologies in leading international venues. Outside of work Elijah writes as a featured blogger on ed-tech website e-Literate acts as an alumni mentor for the computer science department at the University of Minnesota Morris and constructs puns.
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