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Jason Mars (https://jasonmars.org/) is co-founder and former CEO of Clinc. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan where he directs Clarity Lab, one of the top labs in the world to be trained in A.I. and system design. He is an active part of the IBM Watson Conversational System Research Center and participates in ongoing collaborative research with Intel and the National Science Foundation. Jason has devoted his career to solving difficult real-world problems with A.I., computer vision, and natural language processing at scale. Prior to the University of Michigan, Jason was a professor at UCSD. He also worked at Google, Intel, and IBM. Jason’s work building the world’s first open-source platform for constructing large-scale A.I. and deep learning-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) has been recognized globally and continues to have a significant impact on industry and academia. He was recently recognized as one of the top 10 most innovative CEOs in
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 4 investors at University of Michigan are tracked.
- • 8 investors hold the Assistant Professor role in VCSift. Jason Mars is one of them.
- • 107 investors are based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
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