Advisory Board
Eva Klaudinyova
- Location: USA, West Coast
- 18 years in industry
- Teacher at University of Slovakia
- Full time professor at MIIS
- Loc Management (Quality, Supplier, Program, Leadership)
- Women in Localization
Stephan Cocron
- Location: New York, USA
- Localization Program Dir at Salesforce
- Focus on eLearning
- ESL Teacher
- Former professor at MIIS
Jon Ritzdorf
- Location: NJ, USA
- Sr. Solutions Architect at RWS
- Adjunct teaching since 2003
- Bestowed Award for Teaching Excellence in 2012 (New York University)
- Currently at Middlebury Institute (MIIS) & University of Maryland
- Teaches translation technology, web & software localization, solutions development and localization business practices
Alon Lavie
- Location: Pittsburgh, USA
- VP of AI Research at Phrase
- Technology: MT, Translation Quality Evaluation, NLP, for over 25 years
- Professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 1996
- Developed METEOR and COMET
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Tabea De Wille
- Location: Limerick, Ireland
- Professor (Lecturer) at University of Limerick
- Teaches localization, internationalization, translation technology among other subjects
- Course director of 2 programmes in department of Computer Science and Information Systems
- Previously in video games localization industry
Aki Ito
- Location: Minnesota, USA
- Guest Speaker, Mentoring
- Radio Show in Japan supporting students
- Help students in career development and sales
Markus Meisl
- Location: Walldorf, Germany
- Manager Translation Services at SAP
Pete Smith
- Location: USA, Texas
- Chief Analytics Officer at the University of Texas Arlington
- Professor of Modern Languages
- Founder of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge (LINK) lab
- Researcher in NLP, NLU, machine translation, computed culture, and “big data” in education
- Director of UTA’s Localization and Translation certificate program
Ricky Kalu
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Managing Director at Kalu Media, Mothertongue Communications and Freq’ncy Audio
- 15 years of media localization experience
- Main focus is developing localization solutions for African major and minor dialects
- In-house trainer for voiceover artists, quality control professionals and in-studio creative directors