Jerome Pesenti — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Current CTO of Campus.edu, focusing on using AI to make world-class education available.
Founded Sizzle, an AI-for-Learning startup, which was acquired by Campus.edu.
Co-founded Vivisimo in 2000, a search and text analytics company that grew to 130 employees and was acquired by IBM.
Led AI at Meta, growing the team from 200 to 1,600 people and contributing to PyTorch, AI for content moderation, and Llama.
Served as co-CEO of BenevolentAI, developing novel AI technologies for drug discovery.
Managed a global team at IBM Watson, developing state-of-the-art software in question answering, dialog, speech, natural language processing, and automated machine translation.

Biography

Jerome Pesenti is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Campus.edu, where he focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence to expand access to world-class education. He joined Campus after its acquisition of Sizzle, an AI-for-Learning startup he founded, bringing over 25 years of experience in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and search.

Prior to his current role, Pesenti led AI at Meta, where he significantly scaled the team from 200 to 1,600 people.