About us
our mission
Avantopy is a data solutions lab. Our mission is to make the advancements in NLP accessible to everyone. We help companies, data scientists, researchers and domain experts get structured insights from their unstructured data. We believe in the use of technology to achieve a more efficient workflow and focus on strategy and outcome.
Our founders
Our founders are senior scientists with experience in data analytics, machine learning, project management, teaching and publishing. Through their years in the academic and the private sectors, they have faced and solved a variety of problems related to data flows (management, annotation and analysis).
Dirk De Hertog, PhD
Co-founder - NLP expert, developer
Focused, problem solver. Realistic, but motivated by challenges.
Expertise in: Legal texts, News, Social Media, Technical documentation.
Andrea Pizarro Pedraza, PhD
Co-founder - sociolinguist, annotation expert
Communicative, goal-oriented, and decisive. Experienced in academic, publishing and educational sectors.
Expertise in: Interactional language, Social Media.
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