Richard Socher
Richard Socher (* 1984 or 1985 in Dresden ) is a German computer scientist . As chief scientist at Salesforce , he works in the field of artificial intelligence , neural networks and deep learning .
life and work
The son of two GDR scientists grew up temporarily in Ethiopia . He passed the Abitur at the Dresden-Plauen high school and studied computational linguistics in Leipzig (Bachelor 2006) and Saarbrücken (Master 2008). He conducted research on neural networks for language processing at Princeton University and Stanford University . In 2016 , Socher did his doctorate with Christopher Manning in Stanford on the subject of Recursive Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision . Socher turned down the offer of a professorship at Princeton.
In 2014 he founded the start-up company Metamind, which was taken over by Salesforce in 2016, where Socher has since worked as chief scientist.
Socher lives in Silicon Valley .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richard Socher's website (English)
- ^ Recursive Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision . Richard Socher's dissertation, August 2014 (English)
- ↑ a b Jochen Wegner: Artificial Intelligences don't think about what to do after work . Zeit Online , April 16, 2019
- ^ A b Gil Press: Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leaders: Richard Socher, Salesforce . Forbes , May 1, 2017 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Socher, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |