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Dan Weld
Chief Scientist for Semantic Scholar at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Dan Weld is an Artificial Intelligence Research Leader based in Seattle, Washington, currently serving as the General Manager and Chief Scientist for Semantic Scholar at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). Highlights of his career include founding AdRelevance and Netbot, as well as investing in companies like Versive at various stages of development.
Work Experience
General Manager & Chief Scientist for Semantic Scholar
2021 - Current
Senior Research Manager
2018 - 2021
Professor Emeritus
2021
WRT / TJ Cable Professor
1988 - 2021
Teaching undergraduates & graduate students; performing research on artificial intelligence, machine learning, crowdsourcing & intelligent interfaces.
Venture Partner
2001
Madrona is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, investing mainly in seed and Series A technology based companies. The firm has over two decades of helping technology entrepreneurs launch and grow world-class companies. Madrona has been an early investor in companies such as Amazon.com, Apptio, Isilon Systems and Redfin. They invested in several of my startups (Netbot, Adrelevance & Nimble Technology) as well as other tech spinouts from UW.
Madrona is a venture firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Founder / Chief Scientist
1999 - 2000
Founder, Director, VP Engineering
1996 - 1998