Babak Hodjat

Quick Facts

Full Name	Babak Hodjat
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Nov 1, 1967(1967-11-01)
Age	57
Birthplace	Wimbledon
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Scorpio

Babak Hodjat Biography

Babak Hodjat is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on November 1, 1967 in Wimbledon, United Kingdom. Babak Hodjat was born in 1967 in Wimbledon (London). He was a student at Sharif University of Technology from 1986 until 1995, and earned the Master’s degree in Software Engineering. In 1994, he and another student from the department of computer science Hormoz Shahrzad, they presented their work called Introducing a dynamic algorithm for solving problems built on a machine learning algorithm used in artificial living environments at the initial IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence which was held in Orlando.

Hodjat obtained a PhD in machine learning from Kyushu University in 2003 During his time at Kyushu University Hodjat published a number of papers on adaptive agent-oriented software architectures as well as natural user interfaces for languages.

In 2007, he teamed with Antoine Blondeau (former CEO of Dejima) and Adam Cheyer (Dejima’s vice president and Chief Architect of the CALO project) to establish Genetic Finance Holding Ltd. (where he began as CTO). In 2014 the firm became Sentient Technologies. Hodjat was joined by his long-time research fellow Hormoz Shahrzad who became Principal Scientist, while Hodjat held the position of Chief Scientist).

Following the management change within Sentient Technologies, Hodjat became the company’s CEO in February 2017. He continues his business and educational projects (he was on the jury of IBM Watson AI XPRIZE and the Merit Awards committee for the ISAL Award).

Since 2002, Hodjat has created a voice control system called the Natural Interaction Platform (NPI) in collaboration with Stanford University’s research team Archimedes Project. Through these years, Hodjat continued his studies on agent-oriented software architectures and natural user interfaces for languages. The summer of 2003 was when Dejima received funding through SRI International within the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO) project of DARPA and was working on the Perceptive Assistant that Learns (PAL) initiative. Hodjat was the main creator of the company’s agent-oriented technology that was applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and corporate computing. This technology ultimately resulted in Siri.

Babak Hodjat Net Worth

Babak Hodjat is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Babak Hodjat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Babak Hodjat (born in 1967) is the co-founder and CEO of Sentient Technologies. He is an expert in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Hodjat relocated into California in 1998, and in 1998, he founded Dejima Inc. (named after the historical Japanese Dejima artificial island). The company was founded on a patent-pending adaptive agent-oriented, software engineering system created by Hodjat, Christopher J. Savoie and Makoto Amamiya. Hodjat was CTO as well as CEO for nine months starting in October 2000. The company was operating in 2000 with three offices: San Jose, London and Tokyo.

In April 2004, Dejima was acquired by Sybase iAnywhere. Hodjat served as Senior Director of Engineering at Sybase iAnywhere from 2004 to 2008, where he developed AvantGo Platform, mBusiness Anywhere and Answers Anywhere. In 2006, he co-founded MobileVerbs Inc., a mobile marketing service company, which was acquired by iLoop Mobile in February 2010.

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