Nexiwave was founded in March 2008 by a group of IT Professionals led by Ben Jiang and Nickolay Shmyrev. Nexiwave shipped its first product, the core speech indexing and audio search feature, in December 2008. In February 2009, Nexiwave sponsored and developed a conference call service, known as SearchMyMeetings. SearchMyMeetings is a demonstration platform of the benefits of audio search feature. It processes audio recordings for fast keyword search and playback. SearchMyMeetings subsequently signed up MIT Sloan School as the first major users. SearchMyMeetings is Nexiwave’s platform for introducing new applications built on Nexiwave technology.
In late 2009, Nexiwave service was migrated into the cloud to deliver high capacity processing in support of general sales. In May 2010, Nexiwave announced the availability of Nexiwave 2.0: the GPU Assisted Speech Indexing service.
Nexiwave, Inc. is both a US and Canadian company.
Ben Jiang - Co-founder / Principal / CTO
email: ben at nexiwave.com
In March 2008, while driving to his sister Helen's place in Pennsylvania, Ben had this moment: "Ahh, John said that on last week's status call. Now I think he's really right, but what exactly he said." and "If I could just google for that exact audio snippet..." That's how Nexiwave got started. Ben worked tirelessly with Nickolay Shmyrev, the un-official chief maintainer of CMU Sphinx project, to solve this user problem: how to effectively retrieve information from audio archives.
Prior to founding Nexiwave, Ben has over 12 years experience in IT, Speech, and Telco domains. He was a long time IBMer, worked as System Architect and senior IT Specialist. Prior to IBM, Mr. Jiang was a key founding member of a fast-growing tech start-up. Ben holds 4 provisional patents in speech and telecommunication domains. Ben was also the chief initiator and maintainer of a high-performance computing cluster at MIT.
Ben has a S.M. from MIT.
Nickolay V. Shmyrev - Co-Founder / VP of Research
email: nick at nexiwave.com
Nick has worked in mathematics and speech recognition and text-to-speech fields for over 12 years now. Nick is long time open source proponent and has been heavily involved with large open source projects. Nick was responsible for the revival of CMU Sphinx and is un-officially titled as Sphinx's chief maintainer. Nick has a M.A. and a Ph.D degree in Mathematics from Moscow State University.
Robert Aiudi - Sales Director
email: rob at nexiwave.com
Robert Aiudi is Sales Director and has been in the speech industry for nearly 20 years. First working at Dragon Systems as Director of International Business Development, Robert was instrumental in expanding Dragon’s international reach. At Dragon, he saw the first commercial available, continuous speech engine and was key in building awareness of speech and voice technologies. As VP of US Sales at Rhetorical Systems, Robert expanded the market for Rhetorical’s text-to-speech technology. As a sales consultant, he has working on several speech project including text-to-speech. Voicemail-to-text and speech to speech translation. Previous to working with Nexiwave, Robert worked with Yap, Inc and comes to Nexiwave with a breadth of experience in the speech world. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, Robert has studied in France and Germany, and worked extensively around world using his foreign language skills. Attending Yale University, where he studied Mandarin, he is proficient in 10 other languages.
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