Leora Morgenstern

Her contributions in this endeavor include serving as PI of the SAIC Evaluation and Knowledge Infrastructure Team for the DARPA Machine Reading Program, which focused on developing methods to extract formal knowledge from free text; and PI of TAILCM, an IARPA sponsored seedling that has investigated the feasibility of translating regulatory text written in natural language to rules in formal logic programming languages. Before joining SAIC, Dr. Morgensten was Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY where she developed leading technologies in the areas of decision support, knowledge management, customer relationship management, business rules, and the semantic web. Dr. Morgenstern has served as technical lead for developing and deploying applications for Fortune-500 companies in a diversity of industries, including medical insurance, banking, insurance, telephony, software sales, and business continuity. Her patents have won several IBM awards due to their value to industry. Dr. Morgenstern has been on the editorial boards of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, and Electronic Transactions of Artificial Intelligence.