Karen E. Lochbaum, Ph.D., Vice President, Software Engineering

Karen Lochbaum joined Knowledge Technologies (KT) in 2000. In her current position, Karen directs all software development done at the company. In her previous position, she was responsible for development of the Intelligent Essay Assessor™ and its use in the grading services provided by KT's clients including Prentice Hall; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; and Kaplan. While earning her doctorate in computer science from Harvard University, Karen held a fellowship from Bellcore, where she worked as a technical staff member on projects involving development and applications of Latent Semantic Analysis. For five years, she was a member of technical staff at U S WEST Advanced Technologies, where she performed exploratory software research and development, including work on two projects for Latent Semantic Analysis applications that led to patents. Karen has published numerous technical articles in areas related to the KAT engine and computational linguistics.