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.

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.

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.

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.

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.