Professor Jaime Carbonell

Director LTI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Jaime is Director and Founder of the Language Technologies Institute and Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a world-renowned expert in the areas of information retrieval, data mining and machine translation. Jaime co-founded and took public Carnegie Group, a company in the IT services market employing advanced artificial-intelligence techniques. He is the author of the world’s first book on Machine Learning co-authored with another Machine Learning Legend, Prof. Tom Mitchell, CMU. He also organized the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Conference.

His recent technology breakthroughs include Maximal Marginal Relevance (for information retrieval and summarization) and techniques for novel intelligence from massive data (in collaboration with DYNAMiX Technologies). Jaime has consulted for several Fortune 100 companies ranging from Caterpillar to Citigroup, in the general area of intelligent business methods and processes.