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Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes is Dataminr’s Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of AI. His work focuses on mixing qualitative and quantitative methods to gain insights on user behavior for product innovation. Alex is a scientist and innovator with 15+ years of international experience in research leading to product impact at companies including Yahoo, KAIST, Telefónica, IDIAP-EPFL, Fuji Xerox, IBM, Siemens, and AT&T Bell Labs. Previously, Alex was head of R&D at DigitalOcean, CTO at AiCure, and director of research and video products at Yahoo, where he managed teams of scientists and engineers in New York City, Sunnyvale, Bangalore, and Barcelona. He was also a visiting professor at KAIST. He has published widely in top-tier conferences (KDD, WWW, RecSys, CVPR, ACM Multimedia, etc.) and is a frequent speaker at international academic and industry events. He holds a PhD from Columbia University.

Our AI Strategy for Creating Dataminr-unique High Performance LLMs and Foundation Models
7 minute read
| October 3, 2023

Our AI Strategy for Creating Dataminr-unique High Performance LLMs and Foundation Models

In this second installment of our new AI blog series, I will cover the pillars of Dataminr’s AI strategy for using large language models (LLMs) and Foundation Models. I... Read More
Multi-Modal Fusion AI for Real-time Event Detection
10 minute read
| February 18, 2020

Multi-Modal Fusion AI for Real-time Event Detection

Last week, Dataminr joined 3,000 of the world’s leading AI researchers at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference. This was an amazing... Read More
Multi-Modal Understanding and Summarization of Critical Events for Emergency Response
9 minute read
| October 25, 2019

Multi-Modal Understanding and Summarization of Critical Events for Emergency Response

As Dataminr’s Chief Scientist and SVP of AI, I am excited to use this blog as a new forum to highlight some of Dataminr’s work in AI for Good. While engineers at many tech... Read More