Jans Aasman

Jans Aasman is a Ph.D. psychologist and expert in cognitive science, as well as Chief Executive Officer of Franz.com, an early innovator in artificial intelligence and provider of semantic graph databases and analytics (AllegroGraph). As both a scientist and Chief Executive Officer, 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 BAE Systems, Montefiore Medical Center, Pfizer, Siemens, and Wells Fargo, as well as the United States and foreign governments.

Dr. Aasman is a frequent speaker within the semantic technology industry and has authored multiple research papers and bylines, and is one of 15 Chief Executive Officers interviewed in the book "Startup Best Practices." 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 professor in the Industrial Design department of the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands, researching and teaching the use of intelligence in new consumer products.