Ines Montani CEO, Founder

Ines is a co-founder of Explosion and a core developer of the spaCy NLP library and the Prodigy annotation tool. She has helped set a new standard for user experience in developer tools for AI engineers and researchers.

• Berlin, Germany

Matthew Honnibal CTO, Founder

Matthew is a leading expert in AI technology. He completed his PhD in 2009, and spent a further 5 years publishing research on state-of-the-art NLP systems. He left academia in 2014 to write spaCy and found Explosion.

• Berlin, Germany

Sofie Van Landeghem Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Lead

Sofie is a machine learning and NLP engineer who became fascinated with the domain during her master’s in 2006. Her doctoral research focused on text mining for life-sciences, followed by further work in the pharmaceuticals and food industries after her PhD.

• Ghent, Belgium

Adriane Boyd Machine Learning Engineer

Adriane is a computational linguist who has been engaged in research since 2005, completing her PhD in 2012. She has extensive experience in quality control for linguistic annotation, parsing, and NLP for non-standard language.

• Tübingen, Germany

Daniël de Kok Machine Learning Engineer

Daniël is an NLP researcher whose interests include deep grammar parsing, model distillation and implementation efficiency. After completing his PhD in 2013, he taught graduate courses on transformer models for NLP and operated an independent AI consultancy.

• Groningen, Netherlands

Lj Miranda Machine Learning Engineer

Lj has been working on applied NLP since completing his master’s at Waseda University in 2016, including experience at Preferred Networks and Thinking Machines, where he developed production-grade NLP models for a major investment firm.

• Manila, Philippines

Ákos Kádár Machine Learning Engineer

• Rotterdam, Netherlands

Madeesh Kannan Machine Learning Engineer

• Germany

Raphael Mitsch Machine Learning Engineer

• Vienna, Austria

Vinit Ravishankar Machine Learning Engineer

• Berlin, Germany

Damian Romero Machine Learning Engineer (Intern)

Damian is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, focusing on corpus linguistics and NLP. He is working with Explosion on annotation policies and example projects while he completes his dissertation.

• Charlotte, NC, U.S.