Dr. Richard Socher

Richard Socher is the cofounder and CEO of you.com and cofounder and managing director of AIX Ventures. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. He is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors, contextual vectors and prompt engineering. He is the fourth most-cited researcher in NLP, with over 220,000 citations. He also served as an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford.