Richard Socher is co-founder and chief executive officer of You.com, a leading web search infrastructure provider for AI, and co-founder and chief executive officer of Recursive Superintelligence, a company building self-improving AI to automate scientific discovery. He is also co-founder and managing director of AIX Ventures, where he has backed nine unicorns from early stage. Richard previously served as chief scientist and executive vice president at Salesforce, having joined through the 2016 acquisition of his AI startup MetaMind. He is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word and contextual vectors and prompt engineering. He is the third most-cited researcher in NLP, with over 240,000 citations. Richard has a longstanding engagement with the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, Tech Pioneer, and member of the Unicorn Community. He is a TIME100 AI honoree and author of the forthcoming book The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, where he also served as adjunct professor.