Dr. Lavie is an expert in the field of Machine Translation and holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is a Research Professor at CMU’s Language Technologies Institute and the former President of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).
With his intimate knowledge of Machine Translation and enabling technologies, Dr. Lavie founded Safaba after identifying an opportunity to help global enterprises localize successfully and communicate effortlessly across language barriers. He has taken an innovative approach to automated translation, developing systems that combine statistical methods and rich linguistic knowledge leading to the development of Safaba’s Enterprise Machine Translation solutions.