Raul Valdes-Perez

CEO, Vivísimo

Valdes-Perez hasled Vivísimo since co-founding it in June 2000. During his tenure, he has been recognized as a top 10 reader favorite for entrepreneur of the year by Inc. magazine, a CEO of the year finalist by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and three times as one of the 50 most important Hispanics in business and technology by Hispanic Engineer magazine. Before Vivísimo, Valdes-Perez was on the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department faculty since 1991, where he is now an adjunct associate professor. His research on new methods and applications of knowledge discovery led to publishing nearly 50 journal articles in natural, social and computer science. He was a principal investigator on six grants from the National Science Foundation, and was an action editor of the journal Machine Learning. 

Valdes-Perez received a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon and B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from the University of Illinois–Chicago.

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