Catherine Havasi

Catherine Havasi (born 1981) is an American scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab. She co-founded and was CEO of AI company, Luminoso for 8 years. Havasi was a member of the MIT group engaged in the Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project that created the natural language AI program ConceptNet. Havasi is currently the Chief of Innovation and Technology Strategy at Babel Street, AI-enabled data-to-knowledge platform.

Early life and education

Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence from reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind. She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became involved in the MIT Media Lab and studied under Minsky.

Career In the 1990s, Catherine Havasi invented crowd sourcing for artificial intelligence. In 1999, she became involved in the MIT project Open Mind Common Sense with Minsky and Push Singh,

Havasi was named among Boston Business Journal'''s "40 Under 40", of business and civic leaders making a major impact in their respective fields in 2014.

She is co-author of 7 peer-reviewed journal articles on AI and language, and many peer-reviewed major conference presentations.

Selected publications

Most cited publication

Cambria, Erik, Bjorn Schuller, Yunqing Xia, and Catherine Havasi. "New avenues in opinion mining and sentiment analysis." IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems 28, no. 2 (2013): 15-21. (cited 701 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018) Havasi, Catherine, Robert Speer, and Jason Alonso. "ConceptNet 3: a flexible, multilingual semantic network for common sense knowledge." In Recent advances in natural language processing, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007. pp. 27-29.Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2007. (cited 341 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018) Speer, Robert, and Catherine Havasi. "Representing General Relational Knowledge in ConceptNet 5."In LREC, pp. 3679–3686. 2012. (cited 227 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)

Other publications

Catherine Havasi, Robert Speer, James Pustejovsky, and Henry Lieberman.'Digital Intuition: Applying Common Sense Using Dimensionality Reduction. IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems, 24(4) July 2009. (cited 97 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018) Robert Speer, Catherine Havasi, and Henry Lieberman.AnalogySpace: Reducing the dimensionality of common sense knowledge.'' Proceedings of AAAI vol. 8, pp. 548–553.2008, July 2008. (cited 193 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)