Meet the Team
The DorothyAI team brings a team together of intellectual property professionals, artificial intelligence developers, and data scientists to solve the biggest problems vexing the legal industry:
Our team
Bryan Learn, M.S. Machine Learning
Lead Developer.
Bryan is the founding engineer at DorothyAI, Brian has a focus on high-performance computing and was instrumental in developing DorothyAI’s state-of-the-art machine learning models and integrating these into customer-facing web applications.
Sharon Shofner-Meyer, J.D.
President
Sharon is an executive with 25 years of experience in technology, with the past 10 years focused on building technology solutions for the IP industry. Sharon currently serves as President at DorothyAI and Managing Director at Fovea IP. As an executive, she has worked at Novum IP, Thomson Reuters, and LookingGlass Juries, among others. She is an active investor & board member for companies and non-profits.
Jay DePasse
Advisor
Jay DePasse, currently with HP and a former director at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. He is a genius problem solver, created a first of its kind framework that allows a single natural language query to be processed by multiple search models simultaneously, called “Adaptive Research Technology.”
Michael Shamos, J.D.
Ph.D
Dr. Shamos is Distinguished Career Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the M.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in the Language Technologies Institute.
He obtained an A.B. in Physics from Princeton, worked as a programmer in IBM’s Components Division while simultaneously earning an M.A. in Physics from Vassar College, earned an M.S. degree in Technology of Management from American University before enrolling in Yale University’s Department of Computer Science as a member of its second entering class, earning an M.S., an M. Phil., before authoring “Computational Geometry: An Introduction,” the first book in the field and earning a Ph.D. from Yale.
In 1975, Dr. Shamos was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Mathematics departments at Carnegie Mellon where he was the “czar” of CMU’s introductory programming courses and taught a graduate course in analysis of algorithms. In 1978, he joined the CMU Department of Statistics.
He formed Unilogic, Ltd. to commercialize Scribe, a document production system written by Brian Reid, who was then a graduate student at CMU in 1979. In 1981, after earning a law degree at Duquesne University, he requested adjunct faculty status at CMU to work full-time for Unilogic, which he sold in 1987.
Dr. Shamos returned to CMU in 1990 where he continues to teach and train the best software developers, computer scientist, and data scientist in the world.
Joel Welling
CTO
Joel has been instrumental in developing the DorothyAI suite of tools and is an expert in machine learning. He comes from the Pittsburgh Super Computing Center, Carnegie Mellon University.
Pati Pietek
J.D.
Patrycja Pietek (J.D, B.S. Biology) will be the Patent Analyst/Search Expert. Patrycja’s experience in all industries of Patent Law is critical in providing the legal expertise in client relations and product development.