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Kirthi Kalyanam

Kirthi is the J.C. Penney Research Professor, Director of Internet Retailing in the Retail Management Institute & Faculty Director of the eMBA program at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Dr. Kalyanam's areas of expertise include Internet Marketing, Retailing, Multi-Channel Marketing and Database Marketing. His clients have included the American Video Duplicators Association, The Gap, Acuson, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Siemens, Infotech (Mexico), Daehan Oil Corporation (S. Korea), Army and Air force Exchange Service (AAFES), ABN-AMRO, Overstock.com & the Thai Management Association. Dr. Kalyanam advises early stage startups on capturing & winning emerging markets. His expert work focuses on Internet Marketing, Retailing and Database Marketing, and has included designing and evaluating market research, damage assessment using transaction databases and testimony on industry best practices. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.

Ani Nenkova

Ani is currently a postdoctoral research scientist in the Natural Language Processing group at Stanford University working with Prof. Dan Jurafsky. Her experience includes work at Columbia University on multi-document summarization systems (quality and content selection evaluation, entity reference rewrite for better fluency, referring expression generation and content selection), and at Microsoft Research (Frequency-based context sensitive models for content selection and text simplification for summarization). She received her PhD in computer science at Columbia University, working on multi-document summarization of news.

Eduard Hovy

Eduard leads the Natural Language Research Group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. He is Deputy Director of the Intelligent Systems Division, as well as a research associate professor of the Computer Science Department of USC and Advisory Professor of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University in 1987. His research focuses on information extraction, automated text summarization, question answering, the semi-automated construction of large lexicons and ontologies, machine translation, and digital government. Dr Hovy regularly serves in an advisory capacity to funders of NLP research in the US and EU.

Richard Wong

Richard concentrates on mobile and broadband services software, as well as messaging and security investments. Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave. Previously Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, the DSL provider. Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on software and consumer technology. Rich started his career as a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble. Rich holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an active Board Member of the MIT CNC - Entrepreneurship Program and the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus.

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