Richard Socher is Chief Scientist at Salesforce, where he leads the company’s research efforts and works on bringing state of the art artificial intelligence solutions to Salesforce.

Richard was awarded the Distinguished Application Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011, the 2011 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in 2012, a 2013 "Magic Grant" from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the 2014 GigaOM Structure Award, and is currently a member of the WEF Young Global Leaders Class of 2017.

Connect with Richard on Twitter @RichardSocher.