Dr. Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Chairman of the Board, Tilde, Latvia

Andrejs Vasiļjevs is the co-founder and chairman of the board of a leading European language technology company Tilde. He is a board member of the Latvia State Language Commission, European Language Resource Association (ELRA), and LT-Innovate forum. He takes an active role in European R&D collaboration coordinating several large international projects on language technologies and language resource infrastructure. Andrejs has received a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Latvia and has authored more than 50 research papers.