Pierre Berkaloff

Entrepreneurial engineering executive with deep experience over multiple products in Conversational AI and Natural Language Processing and Understanding. Led the development of two complete Conversational AI engines and the most successful of the 100+ conversational AI assistants built using these platforms, processing multiple billions of natural language queries from tens of millions of unique users. Extensive background on both the technical and business aspects: architecting and developing complex software systems, building and managing teams up to 80 people, Multi discipline involvement in parallel to development and test: Sales, M&A, Intellectual property protection and licensing. Experience with large companies as well as in all phases of three venture backed startups, from creation, through growth and then successful exit. Specialties: NLP and Conversational AI including Intent classification, Language Understanding, Task Oriented Dialogues , Dialogue control, Language Generation, Voice Assistant platforms APIs, Deep learning based NLP using LSTM RNNs, NLP platform productization. Special interest in advances in dialogue management programming models, transfer Learning for conversation flow, transformers for language understanding, and better development metaphors for NLP and Voice Assistant developers