Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET.io. Widely known as the “father of artificial general intelligence,” Ben also serves as Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, which hosts the annual AGI research conference series, and the OpenCog Foundation, an organization leading international development of advanced open source AI tools. Dr. Goertzel is Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong robotics company that is the creator of Sophia, one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robot. He is also active in other AI domains including bioinformatics (where he is Chief AI Advisor of Mozi Health), finance, national security, natural language processing, and many others. He has published 150 scientific articles and 15+ scientific books in the field of A.I.

Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2011, Dr. Goertzel held executive roles at AI consulting and product development firms in Washington DC (CEO, Chairman and Chief Scientist at Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC) and New York City (CTO at Webmind Inc.). Prior to that, he served as faculty in mathematics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in cognitive science as the University of Western Australia, and in computer science at Waikato University in New Zealand, at the City University of New York and at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and raised mainly in the US, Dr. Goertzel holds a PhD degree in mathematics from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.