Pieter Buteneers

Pieter Buteneers, Director of Engineering in Machine Learning & AI, Sinch

Pieter Buteneers is an industrial and ICT-electronics engineer. He started his career in academia, first as a Ph.D. student and later as a postdoc, where he did research on machine learning, deep learning, brain-computer interfaces, and epilepsy. He won the first prize in the biggest deep learning competition of 2015 together with a team of machine learners from Ghent University: the National Data Science Bowl hosted on kaggle.com. In the same year, he gave a TEDx talk on brain-computer interfaces. In 2019 he became the CTO of Chatlayer.ai, a platform to build multilingual chatbots “who” communicate on a human level. In 2020 Chatlayer.ai was acquired by Sinch and now Pieter leads all machine learning efforts at Sinch as Director of Engineering in ML & AI.

About Sinch

Sinch brings businesses and people closer with tools enabling personal engagement. Its leading cloud communications platform lets businesses reach every mobile phone on the planet, in seconds or less, through mobile messaging, voice, and video. Sinch is a trusted software provider to mobile operators, and its platform powers business-critical communications for many of the world’s largest companies. Sinch has been profitable and fast-growing since its foundation in 2008. It is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and has a local presence in more than 40 countries. 

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