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James Fan

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Founder at Tomato

San Francisco Bay Area

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James: together at University of Texas at Austin
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James: together at Columbia University in the City of New York

About

James Fan is an AI startup founder whose work focuses on developing and scaling AI technology for enterprise applications. Since 2019 he led the Google Cloud Speech group, launching products including Speech-to-Text On-Prem and custom voice for text-to-speech, and in 2018 he initiated and led development of CCAI Insights, an analytics solution within Google's Contact Center AI suite. He co-founded Hello Vera, an AI customer service company, in 2016 (exited 2018), was a research lead on IBM's Watson Question Answering system in 2011, and holds more than two dozen patents and over 50 publications in AI.

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JAZZ Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $20M checks · since 2023Point72 VenturesNew York · $1M – $75M checks · since 2023

Co-founders at Tomato

OROfer Ronen
Ofer RonenExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter

Experience

  1. Tomato.ai (Sold to Sanas)Co-Founder and CTO2022 — 2026New York City Metropolitan Area
  2. GoogleSenior Manager2018 — 2022Greater New York City Area
  3. Hello VeraCEO & Co-founder (Successful Exit)2016 — 2018Greater New York City Area
  4. Elemental CognitionResearcher2015 — 2016
  5. Columbia University in the City of New YorkAdjunct Associate Professor2015Greater New York City Area
  6. IBM TJ Watson Research LabResearch Staff Member2006 — 2015Greater New York City Area
  7. University of Texas at AustinResearch Assistant2001 — 2006
  8. DellProgrammer1997 — 2000
  9. MacromediaSoftware Engineer1996 — 1997

Skills & more

Python3Hadoop2Eclipse1C++3Linux1Java7MapReduce1Perl1C1Distributed Systems3Information Retrieval4Big Data4
+12 moreSoftware DevelopmentHigh Performance ComputingComputer ScienceText MiningAlgorithmsNatural Language ProcessingMachine LearningOntologiesSoftware EngineeringComputational LinguisticsData MiningText Analytics

Languages Chinese · English

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Who is James Fan?
James Fan is an AI startup founder whose work focuses on developing and scaling AI technology for enterprise applications. Since 2019 he led the Google Cloud Speech group, launching products including Speech-to-Text On-Prem and custom voice for text-to-speech, and in 2018 he initiated and led development of CCAI Insights, an analytics solution within Google's Contact Center AI suite. He co-founded Hello Vera, an AI customer service company, in 2016 (exited 2018), was a research lead on IBM's Watson Question Answering system in 2011, and holds more than two dozen patents and over 50 publications in AI.
Where does James Fan work?
James Fan is Founder of Tomato.
What companies did James Fan found?
James Fan founded Tomato.
Where did James Fan go to school?
James Fan studied at The University of Texas at Austin (PhD, Computer Sciences).

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