Richard Socher ^Investors

Richard Socher is the Chief Scientist at Salesforce where he leads teams working on fundamental research (deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, speech and recommendation), applied research, product incubation and building a cross-product AI platform. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at Stanford's computer science department and the founder and CEO/CTO of MetaMind which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. In 2014, he got his PhD in the CS Department at Stanford. He likes paramotor and water adventures, traveling and photography. He was awarded the Distinguished Application Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011, the 2011 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in 2012 and a 2013 "Magic Grant" from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the 2014 GigaOM Structure Award.