Alexander Ratner
Alexander Ratner is the Co-Founder and CEO of Snorkel AI, a company he co-founded in March 2019. He has been instrumental in pioneering data-centric AI solutions, focusing on programmatic data labeling to streamline AI development and address the bottleneck of creating and managing training data. His leadership has driven Snorkel AI's mission to make high-quality labeled data more accessible and efficient, impacting both academia and industry.
Career Milestones
- Alexander Ratner co-founded Snorkel AI in March 2019 and serves as its CEO, leading the company in data-centric AI solutions.
- He is recognized for creating the open-source Snorkel project at Stanford, which introduced weak supervision for programmatic data labeling.
- This work, beginning during his PhD from 2014-2019, addressed the bottleneck of manual data labeling.
- Ratner is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington since 2019.
- His contributions enable enterprises to build and deploy AI applications more efficiently by focusing on high-quality training data.
About Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI, founded in 2019, is an AI data development platform that helps enterprises build and evaluate custom AI models. They specialize in programmatic data labeling and weak supervision, enabling faster, more accurate AI application development. Snorkel AI serves large enterprises in banking, healthcare, public sector, and insurance, offering features like data labeling, model training, and evaluation.