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Richard Socher was formerly an adjunct professor at Stanford's computer science department (where he also got his PhD), and the founder of MetaMind (acquired by Salesforce). He enjoys researching state-of-the-art AI and making it accessible. In his spare time he enjoys traveling, and photography.

Richard Socher
Chief Scientist

Caiming Xiong came from MetaMind where he worked with Richard. Before MetaMind Caiming was a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. At Salesforce, he focuses on coordinating research efforts and setting new AI benchmarks. Caiming is an avid basketball fan.

Caiming Xiong
Senior Director, Research

Indira Iyer leads engineering and is responsible for delivering voice, vision, and NLP deep learning models, services, and applications. She has more than two decades of industry experience and believes in fostering a culture of transparency, empowerment, mentorship, and accountability.

Indira Iyer
VP, Software Engineering

Steven Hoi was an associate professor at both Singapore Management University and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has more than 16 years of experience in AI research and published over 200 papers. He enjoys reading in his spare time. He is an IEEE fellow.

Steven Hoi
Managing Director, Salesforce Research Asia