Hassan Sawaf

Hassan Sawaf is based out of San Jose, California, and is the Founder/CEO of aiXplain. Hassan previously worked at Meta as a Director, Facebook AI. Hassan Sawaf attended RWTH Aachen University. Prior to joining eBay in April 2013, Hassan held management roles with several companies in the language solutions space, including CEO of AIXPLAIN AG, COO of AppTek Inc., CEO of Net2Voice, and Chief Scientist at SAIC. Hassan speaks fluent English, German and Arabic, holds patents in the areas of machine learning, speech recognition, machine translation and computer vision and continues to be active in the Angel investor community. He holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen with a minor in Human Medicine, and attended the same university for his Ph.D. studies, focusing on Machine Learning and Applied Artificial Intelligence.