Jason Mars

Professor, University of Michigan and CEO/Co-founder of Clinc


Jason Mars

Speaker
Jason Mars, professor at the University of Michigan and CEO/Co-founder of Clinc, is recognized as a Leading expert in the design of cross-layer systems for emerging cloud computing applications, and in particular systems for artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing. Jason has published dozens top notch papers in these areas and received a number of awards and honors for excellence in his research work including a Google Faculty Research Award. Jason’s work has impacted both industry and academia and is routinely covered by press outlets such as Wired, Venturebeat, Business Insider, EETimes, among others. Most recently, Jason Mars, along with members of his Lab at UMich, has had significant impact on industry and academia with Lucida, an open source intelligent personal assistant. This project has taken the community by storm, ascending to the top trending project on GitHub during the early weeks of it’s releases. You can find out more information about Jason Mars at www.jasonmars.org and his company Clinc at www.clinc.com