Alma mater Stanford University Name Lukas Biewald | Education Stanford University Books Beautiful Data | |
Born 1981 Boston, Massachusetts Occupation Founder and Chairman of CrowdFlower Residence San Francisco, California, United States Similar People Peter Norvig, Alon Halevy, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Pierre Lindenbaum | ||
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Lukas Biewald (born 1981 in Massachusetts) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. Biewald is CEO of CrowdFlower (formerly Dolores Labs) — an Internet company that breaks large digital projects into small tasks and distributes them to workers around the world — which he co-founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt.
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- startups lukas biewald of crowdflower on twist 154 bonus
- Interview with lukas biewald founder and ceo of crowdflower
- Background
- Awards and Honors
- Academic Life
- References
Interview with lukas biewald founder and ceo of crowdflower
Background
Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Biewald was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft.
From 2005 to 2006, Biewald led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan, where he focused on using statistical machine learning approaches to improve the web search ranking function for international markets.
Awards and Honors
In 2010, he won the Netexplorateur Prize for creating the GiveWork iPhone app, which allows users to perform small tasks that assist refugees and people in developing countries. Later that year, Inc. Magazine included Biewald and Van Pelt on its list of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.
Biewald and Van Pelt launched CrowdFlower as a product of Dolores Labs at TechCrunch50 in 2009, where the company placed as a finalist.
He is the author of several academic papers on applications of crowdsourcing, as well as a chapter on crowdsourcing gender and age stereotypes in O'Reilly Media's Beautiful Data that he co-authored with Brendan O'Connor.
Academic Life
Biewald holds an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University.
While pursuing his Master's in Computer Science at Stanford University, Biewald won the California Institute of Technology Turing Tournament.