Lauren Barghout Ph.D

Scientist, entrepreneur, writer & mother

Education:

Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley in Vision Science
M.S. University of California at Berkeley in Vision Science
B.A. Hampshire College in Physics and Complex Systems Theory

Current Projects:

• Creating cash flow from image search technology
• Friendly artificial intelligence – a divergence test
• On the existence and properties of spatial taxons in human perceptual organization and attention mechanisms

Even More Education (ongoing):

• Working toward a Business Administration Certificate at U.C. Berkeley
• Web Programming O'Reily School of Technology
• SPSS Training and Certification

Entrepreneurial Ventures:

Paravue Corporation 2004 ~ 2007

In 2004, a few friends and I founded Paravue Corporation, which used technology I invented to address the automated image segmentation market. As CEO and CSO, I grew Paravue Corporation to a valuation of $15,000,000, the last valuation at which we raised capital. Paravue's first products, Fotoclip and TurboMask, began alpha testing in 2007.
            A list of public records regarding Acuity Ventures vs. Paravue are available at http://www.sccaseinfo.org/civil.htm , Case no. 1-07-CV-085589.
            A news article about Paravue is available at http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/06/04/story6.html

Awards:

• Vice Chancellors Research Award. U.C. Berkeley. 2000.
• National Eye Institute Travel Fellowship. 2001.