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Author: Babak Hodjat

Babak Hodjat is Vice President of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and former co-founder and CEO of Sentient. He is responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge fund, Sentient Investment Management. He is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist.

Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. He was also co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri.

A published scholar in the fields of artificial life, agent-oriented software engineering and distributed artificial intelligence, Babak has 31 granted or pending patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms and distributed AI and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a Ph.D. in machine intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan. He can be reached at Babak.Hodjat@cognizant.com.

Digital Business Pandemic Response Challenge with XPRIZE

When COVID Gets Personal, Look to Evolutionary AI (Part 5)

Babak Hodjat - February 4, 2021 - 189 views

My son graduated from college in March, but instead of pomp and circumstance, the graduation ceremony was a short Zoom call in which the dean of his college cried for much of it. Later, our vacation plans went down the drain due to the intense travel restrictions. As cases and deaths rose during the months […]

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AI & Data: Our Best Hope for Infectious Disease Prevention, Treatment, Mitigation & Cures

Babak Hodjat & Brian Williams - May 14, 2020 - 774 views

Great challenges require great tools. And in a world where a virus such as SARS-CoV-2 has had a huge global impact in just a matter of months, its complexity and speed require new methods for finding solutions. Advanced forms of artificial intelligence (AI) are already playing a critical role in our pandemic-fighting efforts, and they’re […]

Digital Business Artificial Intelligence

Evolutionary AI: The Next Giant Leap for Artificial Intelligence

Bret Greenstein & Babak Hodjat - July 18, 2019 - 955 views

It’s been 50 years since the first person stepped on the moon, proving there are no limits to how far we can go when we apply our passion, bravery and innovation to go beyond what seems possible. Landing a person on the moon was only theoretical until Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins eased […]

Digital Business AI & Analytics

The Rise of AI: Learning from the Past

Babak Hodjat & Bret Greenstein - June 4, 2019 - 633 views

Like the Industrial Revolution before it, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is the great story of our age. Entire industries and job categories will be created, elevated, reshaped and even eliminated, while entire classes of human interaction will be redefined. In addition to its societal impact, AI is forecast to add $15.7 trillion to the […]

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