Michael has spent the last decade immersed in open source technologies, big data, and architecture design for global brands. Upon joining Basis he has focused on real-world implementation of cutting-edge NLP technologies. As a child, he built a hang glider from plastic bags, duct tape, and sticks which subsequently disappeared the day before his planned flight from the roof of his parent’s garage, nevertheless, he has not lost his innovative spirit which he brings to every endeavor.
Michael Harris
Solutions Engineer
Basis Technology
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Chris Biow
SVP U.S. Public Sector
Basis Technology
Chris leads the U.S. Public Sector team at Basis Technology, working with government customers to meet their text analytics and digital forensics mission needs using Basis software and services.
Kfir Bar
Chief Scientist
Basis Technology
Dr. Kfir Bar is the Chief Scientist of our text analytics team. He has spent many years working in a wide range of natural language processing disciplines, including statistical machine translation, machine learning, ontologies, and language generation.
Michael Harris
Solutions Engineer
Basis Technology
Michael has spent the last decade immersed in open source technologies, big data, and architecture design for global brands. Upon joining Basis he has focused on real-world implementation of cutting-edge NLP technologies.
Eugene S. Reyes
Federal Solutions Engineer
Basis Technology
Eugene has 20 years of experience in software engineering, mainly in several offices within the Intelligence Community. He has been part of multiple applied research and development organizations, focusing on advancing text analytics through various human language technologies (HLT), such as Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), entity identification, and machine translation. Growing up, he learned to...
Carl W. Hoffman
CEO & Chairman, Co-Founder
Basis Technology
Carl founded Basis Technology in 1995 to help American companies enter Asian markets. In 1999, the company shipped its first products for website internationalization, enabling Lycos and Google to become the first search engines capable of cataloging the web in both Asian and European languages. In 2003, the company shipped its first Arabic analyzer and...
Philip Blair
Senior Research Engineer
Basis Technology
Philip Blair is a Senior Research Engineer on Basis Technology’s R&D team. He investigates practical applications of deep learning technologies for use in text analytics. Philip also leads Basis Technology’s machine learning infrastructure team, focused on deploying cutting-edge algorithms into the field. Philip has published research which explores intrinsic evaluations of text embeddings to better...
Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies
Product Manager, Rosette Text Analytics
Basis Technology
Hannah is the product manager for the Rosette Text Analytics product line at Basis Technology where she oversees the definition and execution of the product roadmap, collaborating across the organization to bring state of the art multilingual text analysis solutions to market. A graduate of Reed College in Portland, OR, she is particularly interested in...
Zach Yocum
Linguistic Data Engineer
Basis Technology
Zach is a Senior Linguistic Data Engineer at Basis. He works with Basis Technology's engineering teams to research, assess, and prepare linguistic data sets for NLP applications. Zach studied Linguistics and Computational Linguistics.
Michael Dreeben
Former U.S. Deputy Solicitor General
With his tenure as U.S. deputy solicitor general for 25 years, Mr. Dreeben is only the seventh person in U.S. history to argue over 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also a member of Robert Mueller’s Office of Special Counsel, where he handled litigation challenging the Office’s authority.
Steven Panzer
Vice President, Technology Solutions
Culmen International
Steve Panzer is a technology executive who has established and grown federal high tech organizations supporting digital image processing, advanced computer graphics, geospatial systems, and big data analytics, primarily for the intelligence community. These companies include Gould, PIXAR, ObjectFX, and Centrifuge Systems. In his current role as Vice President, Technology Solutions for Culmen International, he leads...
Steve Cohen
EVP, COO, & Co-Founder
Basis Technology
Steve co-founded Basis Technology in 1995 and oversees the firm’s business operations. With his engineering background, Steve seeks to move the dial on real-world problems by finding achievable waypoints between academic thinking and production-grade technology. In the mid-90s, Steve recognized a common need among major search engines—Infoseek, Lycos, Google, Yahoo!—and led the company to develop...
Raymond Seib
Portfolio Manager, Analytics Development & Sustainment
Boeing Intelligence & Analytics
Raymond Seib is the portfolio manager for Analytics Development and Sustainment at Boeing Intelligence & Analytics, where he oversees several contracts that provide full product lifecycle support for a wide range of software. During his tenure, Ray has overseen a variety of special projects, including transitioning a widely used mission-critical legacy system from fixed hardware...