Peyman Faratin

A New York venture capital firm purpose-built to help enterprise software pioneers create category-defining products.

A New York venture capital firm purpose-built to help enterprise software pioneers create category-defining products.

The mission of RobustLinks is to use state of the art AI, NLP, and ML to compose what we call Knowledge as a Service (KaaS). The service builds and refines a probabilistic model of user demographic and interests. Given only one or more geolocations KaaS can infer an eleven dimensional probabilistic model of the user demographics. KaaS can also consume unstructured, "snack sized", idiosyncratic textual data (e.g. social media feed) and infer its semantics. It integrates end-to-end technology stack that continuously gather, summarize and represent the semantics of unstructured text, in real-time and at scale. The derived semantics is then analyzed to condense the big data to a compact and searchable semantic graph. We use IR, not semantic web, paradigms and tools. BigSieve is one consumer facing application that we have built on top of KaaS layer. In BigSieve users opt-in to share their location and access to their social media feed. BigSieve then uses KaaS to continuously update a model of the user demographics and interests and match them to items in the application domain, messages or other users.

Founded in 1831, NYU is one of the world’s foremost research universities and is a member of the selective Association of American Universities. The first Global Network University, NYU has degree-granting university campuses in New York and Abu Dhabi, and has announced a third in Shanghai; has a dozen other global academic sites, including London, Paris, Florence, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, and Accra; and sends more students to study abroad than any other U.S. college or university. Through its numerous schools and colleges, NYU conducts research and provides education in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, business, dentistry, education, nursing, the cinematic and performing arts, music and studio arts, public administration, social work, and continuing and professional studies, among other areas.

The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory – known as CSAIL ­– is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. CSAIL has played a key role in the computer revolution and developments such as time-sharing, massive parallel computers, public key encryption, mass commercialization of robots, and much of the technology underlying the ARPANet, Internet and the World Wide Web. CSAIL’s focus is developing the architecture and innovative applications for tomorrow’s information technology. Our research yields long-term improvements in how people live and work. CSAIL members (former and current) have launched more than 100 companies, including 3Com, Lotus Development Corporation, RSA Data Security, Akamai, iRobot, Meraki, ITA Software, and Vertica. The Lab is home to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Wireless@MIT, BigData@CSAIL, Cybersecurity@CSAIL and the MIT Information Policy Project (IPP). Connecting to CSAIL CSAIL Alliances is your organizations pathway to CSAIL connections and serves as a gateway into the lab for industry and governmental institutions seeking closer engagement to the work, researchers and students of CSAIL. The program provides organizations with a proactive and comprehensive approach to developing strong connections with all CSAIL has to offer. Leading organizations come to CSAIL to learn about our research, to recruit talented graduate students, and to explore collaborations with our researchers. Through this program, we are able to better provide our members with access to our latest thinking and our deep pool of exceptional human and informational resources. For more information, please visit: http://cap.csail.mit.edu/