David Landan

David Landan is a seasoned professional in the field of computational linguistics and machine learning, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO at Savati and Lead ML Engineer at Transcend since 2024. With a robust background in AI engineering, David holds a senior position at ETS and previously excelled as a Senior NLP Engineer at TAUS, as well as an NLP Engineer at KUDO, where David contributed to the development of innovative NLP products for remote simultaneous interpretation. David's extensive experience includes leading cross-functional teams at Fresco, achieving high accuracy in dependency parsing and POS tagging, and spearheading machine translation efforts at Welocalize. With early career roles at Nuance Communications and VoiceBox Technologies, David has a proven track record in language modeling and natural language understanding. Academic credentials include a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington and studies in Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences and Linguistics at Brown University and the University of California, Davis, respectively.