Patricia Scanlon

Background

About Patricia Scanlon

Founder and Executive Chair of SoapBox Labs. Engineer and Ph.D. in Speech Recognition, Artificial Intelligence. Listed by Forbes as one of the World’s Top 50 Women in Tech & one of the World's top Visionaries in Voice by Voicebot.ai. Contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, and TheNextWeb. TEDx speaker. Successfully raised significant private investment as well as EU EIC Accelerator and Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF)innovation grant funding for Soapbox Labs. I hold a PhD and 25 years of experience in Speech Recognition technology and Machine Learning systems. I have spent the majority of my career working on the commercialization of research innovations. I have held positions with Columbia University in New York, IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre; Adjunct Lecturer for Trinity College Dublin; Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs. My efforts in R&D have yielded 3 granted patents, 3 patents pending, 21 International Peer-reviewed Journals and Conference papers, and 400 citations to date. Google Scholar: & hl=en I am a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Other positions of influence- Mentor to early-stage founders at the Founder Institute - Learnovate (Government funding technology research centre) Steering Committee Member - Board member for the National Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence - Member of the advisory board on Artificial Intelligence to Not-for-profit TechIreland - Chairperson of the board of SoapBox Labs Skillset: Product vision, speech technology & artificial intelligence, business & organizational development, hiring & team building, fundraising & investor management, market research, scaling global AI company, fundraising, and innovation grant funding.