David Andreoff Evans

Who is David Andreoff Evans?

David A. Evans is the president, CEO, and chief scientist of JustSystems Evans Research, Inc.. He is a prominent figure in the field of computational linguistics, best known for research on work in indexing using natural language processing, and in ontology learning, especially in medical informatics.

He attended Stanford University, receiving his Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics there in 1982. He was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University from 1983 until 1996, and founded their Computational Linguistics Program and Laboratory for Computational Linguistics. In 1993, his research was spun-out from Carnegie-Mellon, as Claritech. Claritech became a research and development subsidiary of JustSystems and its name was change to Clairvoyance Corporation in 1996, before becoming JSERI in 2007.