adam.cheyer.comAdam Cheyer

UCLA Home About Publications Patents Projects & Demos Magic Contact News © All Rights Reserved. Go to the top Artificial Intelligence / Human Computer Interaction About Photos Photos Click on a photo below to get a downloadable hi-res version. is an inventor, entrepreneur, engineering executive, and a pioneer in AI and computer human interfaces. Adam has been a co-founder or founding member of five successful startups, including Siri (sold to Apple , where he led server-side engineering and AI for the Siri assistant), Change.org (the world’s largest petition platform with more than half a billion members), Viv Labs (sold to Samsung , where as VP R&D, Adam led product engineering and developer relations for Samsung’s voice assistant), GamePlanner.AI (sold to Airbnb ), and Sentient (massively distributed machine learning, sold to Cognizant ). Currently, Adam is VP of AI Experience at Airbnb . He is also an advisor to several companies, including Project Voice Capital Partners , Otter.ai , Riva Health , Evolv Technologies , Disruptel (acquired by SambaTV), Brilliant Labs , AI Sprouts and Spatial Labs . Previously, Adam was VP Engineering at Verticalnet (enterprise software) and Dejima (mobile software). Adam also spent more than a decade at SRI International , where his most recent role was as Chief Architect of CALO/PAL, the U.S. government’s largest funded AI project. In addition to his technology work, Adam is an award-winning magician. He has performed in palaces for presidents, stadiums for students, and on television for Penn and Teller . He has also wowed the crowd during twenty-one shows at the world famous Magic Castle in Los Angeles. Adam has authored more than 60 publications and 39 patents and served on numerous advisory boards and committees Advisory Boards, Activities Member of the Honorary Committee for the World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival (WAICF) . 2023-present. Judge for the $5M XPrize in Artificial Intelligence . Advisor for Webit Global Impact Week . Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) . Member of Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). 2014-present. Otter.ai . Advisor. 2020-present. Evolv . Advisor. 2019-present. Brilliant Labs . Advisor. 2020-present. Startup World Cup . Advisory Committee. 2020-present. Founders Network . Membership Committee. 2019-present. Member of the 2017 CHURCHILLS Academy , The Churchill Club. Oakland Food Pantry . Board Member. 2014-2018. Transcel . Advisor. 2011-2017. Ditto Greetings . Advisor. 2012-2016. Pinyata . Advisor. 2012-2015. Change.org . Founding Member and Advisor. 2006-present. Genetic Finance/Sentient Technologies . Co-Founder and Advisor. 2006-present. Board member, 2006-2010. Mixtent (Sold to Facebook) . Advisor. 2009-2011. Radar Networks . Member of Advisory Board. 2007-2009. Silicon Valley World Internet Center . Member of the Technology Council. 2001-2005. Dejima, Inc . Member of Advisory Board. 1999-2001. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Virtual and Active Interfaces Group . Visiting professor. Summer 2004. PhD Advisor, 2004-2007. United Nations University’s Millenium Project . Advisor and member of the technology team for the State of the Future Index (SOFI). 2003. 2007. Program Committees 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2019) , 19-21 February 2019, Prague, Czech Republic. 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2017) , 24-26 February 2017, Porto, Portugal. 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2016) , 24-26 February 2016, Rome, Italy. 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2015) , 10-12 January 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010 , 28 - 30 July 2010, Frieburg, Germany. Linked AI: AAAI Spring Symposium ’Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence’ , March 22-24 2010, Stanford, CA. The Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART-2010) , 22 - 24 January 2010, Valencia, Spain. The Eleventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI) , 2 - 6 November 2009, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA. International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) , 19 - 21 January 2009, Porto, Portugal. IADIS International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008 (IHCI) , 25 - 27 July 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008) , May 1216, 2008, Estoril, Portugal. The Third International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe’07) Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 26 - 27, 2007. The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007) , Nov 1115, 2007, Bexco, Busan, Korea. IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2007 , Jul 68, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007) , May 1418, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The Second International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe’06) 29 Oct - 3 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France. Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006) , May 8-12, 2006. Japan. 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006) , Cognitive Approaches and Soft Computing August 20-24, 2006. Hong Kong. The First International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe’05) 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005, Agia Napa, Cyprus. ICMI: Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces October 14th-15th, 2004. Penn State University - State College, PA. WSABE: Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems July 2004, New York, NY. The Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2003) Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA. The AAAI-2000 Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets The Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence July 31st, 2000, Austin, Texas. Workshop on Speech and Natural Language Processing in Virtual Reality International Society on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM) 19-20 November, 1998, Gifu, Japan. Exhibition Chair First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA’99) October 3-6, 1999, Palm Springs, California. Thesis Advisor for Students Yifen Huang . Mixed-Initiative Clustering , PhD School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2010. Didier Guzzoni . Active: A unified platform for building intelligent assistant applications , PhD Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Nov 2007. Fredrik Espinoza . ’sicsDAIS: managing user interaction with multiple agents’, MS Swedish Institute for Computer Science (SICS), 1998. . He graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University and received the "Outstanding Masters Student" award from UCLA’s School of Engineering . See details on LinkedIn Awards Awards 2020 Outstanding Achievement & Lifetime Achievement Award Jan 2020 * Project Voice Adam was honored for his contributions to the field of voice assistants. [Article] 2019 AI Tech Award Aug 2019 * AI DevWorld Samsung’s Bixby and Bixby Developer Studio has won an 2019 AI TechAward in the category ’AI Bots/Chatbots’. The 2019 AI Tech Awards celebrates technical innovation, adoption and reception in the AI, Machine Learning & Data Science industry and by the developer community. [Press Release] Top Visionary in Voice 2019 Aug 2019 * Voicebot.ai Selected #2 on the “Top Visionaries in Voice 2019” list by Voicebot.ai, behind Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and ahead of Sundar Pichai (Google). [Article] Winner of Closeup Magic Competition Jun 2019 * Oakland Magic Circle Adam won the 1st Place trophy and a cash...