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January 17, 2024 • 6:00 PM CET
Building Business Products From AI Research
Fireside chat with Alex Waibel, leading AI researcher and former director of language technologies at Facebook.
Fireside chat with Alex Waibel, leading AI researcher and former director of language technologies at Facebook.
The event will explore the evolution of AI in the business world and will feature Alex Waibel’s extensive experience in NLP and ML. A serial entrepreneur and long-time AI researcher, Alex is known for his role in pioneering technologies and collaborations with companies such as Facebook and Zoom. He will be joined for this fireside chat by Sébastien Bratières, Managing Director of our School of AI.
They will discuss the most impactful business applications of AI, from the Transformer to spoken language translation, and offer expert predictions for the AI landscape in 2024. This session will provide insightful reflections on AI’s current and future role in business innovation.
ALEX WAIBEL
Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany).
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About
Alex
Waibel
Alexander Waibel is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). He is the director of the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT). Alex is known for his work on AI, Machine Learning, Multimodal Interfaces and Speech Translation Systems.
He founded more than 10 companies and organizations that transfer academic results to practical deployment, including the first commercial speech translation system on a phone Jibbigo (2009), the first simultaneous lecture interpretation service (since 2012 at KIT), dialog translators for humanitarian missions (2007-present) and interpretation support at the European Parliament. Following the acquisition of Jibbigo (2013-14), he served as director of language technologies at Facebook.
Alex published extensively in the field (>800 papers, >30,000 citations) and received many patents and awards. He directed international research programs under support from NSF, DARPA, BMBF and the EU. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Germany and a Fellow of the IEEE. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from MIT and CMU, respectively.
