Babak Hodjat Biography

Babak Hodjat is co-founder and chief scientist of Sentient responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak is a serial entrepreneur having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase Babak was co-founder CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. acquired by Sybase in April 2004. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri. Babak is a published scholar in the fields of Artificial Life Agent-Oriented Software Engineering and Distributed Artificial Intelligence and has 25 granted or pending patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI including natural language processing machine learning genetic algorithms distributed AI and has founded multiple companies in these areas and more. As the best-funded startup in the AI space (with about 150M raised) Babak also knows about how to grow companies from idea to the real world. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University in Fukuoka Japan.
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