About Us
President
Beth Huffer
Beth is the founder and President of Lingua Logica. She is a philosopher and a lover of logic, semantics, ontology and data. She has been working in the semantic technology field since 1998, when she joined the Cyc Project in Austin, Texas. Beth has worked on knowledge representation, formal logic modeling, and implementation of semantic technologies for U.S. Government agencies including the FAA, DOD, DHS, NASA, and NOAA, and in the private and academic sectors at Cyc, HIGHFLEET, Microsoft, and the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has extensive experience in ontology-supported applications for semantic search and data analytics.
Beth is a former chair and current member of the Semantic Technology Committee of the Earth Science Information Partners, a member of the American Geophysical Union, and the Research Data Alliance. She is the principal investigator for AMP: An Automated Metadata Pipeline, a project of NASA’s Advanced Information Systems Technology Program.
Chief Science Officer
Simon Handley, Ph.D.
Simon is a hands-on machine learning expert with two decades of experience developing software in Silicon Valley. After receiving his PhD in machine learning and computational biology from Stanford University, Simon served as a research scientist at Iconix Biosciences and Agilent Technologies. Since then, Simon has developed software and systems for a number of startups, one of which he co-founded. At Castlight Health, he led the R&D teams that developed the Genius product, the first and most impactful artificial intelligence offering at Castlight. Simon is an expert at managing high performance teams that create solutions combining artificial intelligence and excellent engineering.