Dr Igor Perisic heads Entopia's research program focusing on
1) semantic content extraction of unstructured texts through advanced
neural networking and vector space technology, 2) customized taxonomy
generation and 3) social networks modelisation. A French-speaking
Swiss native, Dr. Perisic is currently designing a program to
ensure state-of-the-art semantic search tools leveraging the natural
social networks of corporations for Entopia products and services.
Dr Perisic holds a bachelor of science in mathematics from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a doctorate in statistics
from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr Perisic
joined Entopia from the University of Connecticut's Department
of Statistics, where he was an Instructor and Assistant Professor.
At that time, Dr Perisic also served as a Statistical Consultant
for the University's Ergonomic Technology Center, Institute for
Violence Reduction and Health Center divisions of Medicine and
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, respectively. From 1998
to 2000, Dr Perisic was a Statistical Consultant for Talaria,
Inc, where he co-investigated the development of new techniques
for exploratory data analysis. Prior to joining the University
of Connecticut, Dr Perisic was a Harvard Medical School Channing
Laboratory Predoctoral Fellow.
Dr Perisic has published several scientific articles related
to the educational, biostatistical, data-mining and information
retrieval fields. Dr Perisic has also been the recipient of numerous
awards, including several NSF and NIH funds, and Swiss National
Science Foundation grants.