Micha Y. Breakstone

Building a world-class team and technologies to understand what influences us. --- Tech entrepreneur and manager with broad experience in diverse aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics. Co-developed Summlys NLP technology (acquired by Yahoo for $33M, 2013), and founded Ginger's Virtual Personal Assistant Business Unit (acquired by Intel, $30M, 2014). Proven track record of building world-class NLP and ASR teams and technologies, and excel at interfacing between people and technology. Received a Masters (cum laude) in Mathematics and a PhD in Formal Semantics (2015) from Hebrew University. Spent 2 years at MIT as an invited researcher.