Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc.
Jans Aasman is a Ph.D. psychologist and expert in cognitive science, as well as CEO of Franz Inc., an early innovator in artificial intelligence and provider of semantic graph databases and analytics. As both a scientist and CEO, Dr. Aasman continues to break ground in the areas of artificial intelligence and semantic databases as he works hand-in-hand with organizations such as Montefiore Medical Center, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Siemens, Merck, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, and BAE Systems, as well as US and foreign governments.
Dr. Aasman spent a large part of his professional life in telecommunications research, specializing in applied artificial intelligence projects and intelligent user interfaces. He gathered patents in the areas of speech technology, multimodal user interaction, and recommendation engines while developing precursor technology for the iPad and Siri from 1995 to 2004. He was also a part-time professor in the industrial design department of the Technical University of Delft.
