Leonid Perlovsky

Who is Leonid Perlovsky?

Leonid Perlovsky is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base. He is the Program Manager for United States Department of Defense Semantic Web program and leads several research projects, including cognitive algorithms, modeling of evolution of languages and cultures. From 1985 to 1999, he served as Chief Scientist at Nichols Research, a $0.5B high-tech DOD contractor leading the corporate research in intelligent systems, neural networks, sensor fusion, and automatic target recognition.

He served as professor at Novosibirsk State University and New York University, and participated as a principal in commercial startups developing tools for text understanding, Biotechnology, and financial predictions. His company predicted the market crash following September 11, 2001 attacks a week before the event, detecting activities of Al-Qaeda traders, and later helped SEC tracking the perpetrators.