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

Madeesh Kannan Machine Learning Engineer

• Germany

Raphael Mitsch Machine Learning Engineer

• Vienna, Austria

Kabir Khan Machine Learning Engineer

Kabir is a machine learning engineer who started his career at Microsoft, where he worked on Microsoft Education products and developed models for Azure Cognitive Services using spaCy and Prodigy.

• Bellevue, WA, U.S.

Magdalena Anioł Machine Learning Engineer, Prodigy Lead

• Seville, Spain