Founder and CEO

Danica is an entrepreneur and expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). She earned her PhD in AI from the University of Sheffield in 2011, where she developed the FREyA system, which won the QALD-1 Challenge 2011 for question answering against DBpedia. Her career began as a software engineer, and she has since worked both in academia and on cutting-edge projects in industry including Apple’s Siri. Her academic research in Natural Language Processing is balanced with industry experience, having published more than 50 publications, and a book on text analytics, cited over 2000 times. She is passionate about applying AI to practical, transformative applications. Outside work, she enjoys sports, tango dancing, and traveling.

Senior Software Engineer

Nick brings extensive experience in full-stack development, leveraging latest frameworks and technologies to build scalable, innovative solutions. He is recognised for delivering impactful web applications and cloud-based systems, collaborating with teams and mentoring junior developers while maintaining a focus on clean code and efficient design. Nick is passionate about emerging technologies and has a great deal of experience with making NLP applications scale.

NLP and Speech

Initially trained as a System Control Engineer Xingyi moved to AI/NLP soon after graduating. He completed his MSc and PhD studies at the NLP group, at the University of Sheffield, working on Machine Translation. After finalising his PhD, he worked as machine translation engineer and on the cutting edge research projects such as Kconnect, working on several medical domain NLP tasks, including sentiment analysis, name entity recognition, suicidal ideation detection, and Semantic indexing.