Richard Socher, PhD

Richard is a leading AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his pioneering work in natural language processing and deep learning. He was Chief Scientist at Salesforce following its acquisition of MetaMind, the AI company he founded. He is currently CEO of You.com and Managing Partner at AIX Ventures. Richard earned his PhD at Stanford, has authored highly cited papers in AI, and helped shape modern NLP techniques including contextual embeddings and prompt-based models. He brings deep expertise in building and scaling cutting-edge AI systems.