Scholar
Richard Socher
Google Scholar ID: FaOcyfMAAAAJ
you.com
Citations & Impact
Citations
169,663
H-index
106
i10-index
221
Publications
20
Co-authors
65
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Over 180,000 citations to his research.
- Stanford University’s Best Computer Science PhD Thesis Award (2014).
- Honorary Doctorate (Dr.-Ing. h. c.) from TU Dresden.
- ICML 2011 Best Paper Award.
- Named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2016).
- Microsoft PhD Fellowship recipient.
- ACL 2023 Test of Time Award for a 2013 paper.
- PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize for contributions to ImageNet.
- WEF Technology Pioneer (2024) with you.com.
- Included in Time Magazine’s Time100 AI list (2023).
Background
- CEO/Founder of you.com, the first chat-search assistant.
- Founder and Managing Partner at AIX Ventures, where he invests in and mentors startups.
- Former Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce, leading teams in fundamental/applied research, product incubation, search, customer service automation, and a cross-product AI platform for structured and unstructured data.
- Previously CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016.
- Pioneered the application of neural networks in natural language processing, inventing widely used word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering.
