Catherine Havasi is cofounder and CEO of Luminoso, an AI-based natural language understanding company located in Cambridge, MA. Luminoso’s solutions are based upon nearly a decade of Catherine’s research at the MIT Media Lab on applying natural language processing and machine learning to improve text analytics. As a woman in machine learning (especially embeddings/deep learning), as well as a women tech CEO, she offers a unique (and rare) perspective on the field. Catherine directs the Open Mind Common Sense Project, one of the largest common sense knowledge bases in the world, which she cofounded alongside Marvin Minsky and Push Singh in 1999.