System AI

George Gregory (co-founder, CEO)

George Gregory is a second-time entrepreneur. His previous company, Lex Machina, was acquired by LexisNexis/Reed Elsevier. Lex Machina is a data analytics company and started as a project at Stanford. While starting Lex Machina, George had a privilege to work with professors Mark Lemley, Andrew Ng and Chris Manning, applying cutting-edge research in machine learning and natural language processing to real-world problems.

He is an active member of an Artificial Intelligence community, where he co-founded and currently serves as a Chair of ACM SIGAI (Special Interest Group of Artificial Intelligence) Bay Area Chapter.

George attended PhD program in Theoretical Physics at Yale University, where his interests revolved around string theory and high-energy physics, before he decided to focus on more practical applications and left with OBD to join the Industry. He won International Physics Olympiad.

In his spare time, George enjoys building Robotics DIY projects that help to introduce kids to Computer Science.

Tuna Oezer (co-founder, CTO)

Tuna has been programming computers since he was a little kid. He learned to speak C/C++ before he learned English. Tuna's passion is to make machines intelligent.

Tuna has a PhD in Computer Science with specialization in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also minors in Math, Biology and Psychology. As a PhD student, Tuna worked together with neuroscientists on modeling the human brain. Tuna's work included implementing neural network models that control a physical robot. He gained experience with processing visual, auditory and infrared input. Later on, Tuna worked on simulating human language acquisition models via a robot. He demonstrated unsupervised learning of action words only from raw video of human activities and general speech mentioning the action.

Being much more skilled in actually writing computer code rather than just theorizing about it, Tuna decided to pursue an engineering career after completing his PhD. He spent a couple of years working on search infrastructure and ranking at Google.

Tuna has extensive experience in many areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, computer vision, planning, and knowledge representation. He has also broad software engineering experience ranging from networking and distributed systems, databases, multi-media, embedded systems, to front-end development.

If he is not programming, Tuna likes to enjoy nature. He seeks the challenge of epic endurance hikes and has crossed the entire Sierra Nevada mountain range multiple times -- within a single day!

Vibhu Mittal

Vibhu is a CEO of Edmodo, one of the world's largest K-12 education networks in the world, with a mission to connect every learner to the resources necessary for them to reach their full potential. Edmodo was founded in 2008 and grown to 66+ million members. Vibhu was co-founder and CEO of Root-One, a company applying natural language processing technology to education, which was acquired by Edmodo. Prior to Root-One, Vibhu was a Senior Scientist with Google for 9 yrs, working on query classification, groups ranking, academic paper search, and machine translation. He co-founded Google India Engineering center. Vibhu served on adjunct research faculty of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University for 6 years. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and Senior Scientist at Xerox PARC. He has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Southern California and BTech CS from IIT Bombay.

Josh Becker

Josh is the CEO of Lex Machina, a data analytics company started as a project at Stanford University and acquired by LexisNexis/Reed Elsevier. Josh is the founder of The Full Circle Fund, an alliance of emerging business leaders who help solve public problems through engaged philanthropy and public policy advocacy. FCF has raised over $2.5M in six years. He is also the co-founder of New Cycle Capital, an early stage venture fund investing in a new generation of entrepreneurs who want to build great businesses that can change the world. He is particularly focused on the clean energy sector where he has funded companies in energy efficiency, solar, green building and carbon markets. He also continues to serve on the Board/Sr. Advisor to several other startups and continues to be very active in non profit arena through work with Full Circle Fund and the Hidary Foundation. Josh was part of the founding team at Redpoint Ventures where he focused on Internet and wireless investments. Previous employment includes Brentwood Venture Capital, Netscape Communications, and McKinsey & Co. Josh was the 2nd employee at EarthWeb Inc., a start up that went public in 1998. In Washington, D.C., Josh started a successful technology consulting firm and was one of the youngest press secretaries on Capitol Hill. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from the Stanford Law School. At Stanford he co-founded the Board Fellows Program, which now matches almost 15% of GSB students each year with Boards of non-profit organizations. He also ran a year long initiative on technology and social change.