Jiri is a co-founder of Geneea, responsible for product development and R&D with a focus on multilingual AI solutions for media. He finds the intersection between the exacting nature of computers and the fuzziness of language fascinating. He also has a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics and more than 20 years of research and teaching experience in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in the EU and the US. He has published more than 50 publications in NLP, including three books.