• Colin Layfield, General Manager

  • Amanda Schiffrin, Principal Computational Linguist

  • Tim Black, Requirements Analyst and Interaction Designer

  • Lorna Fadden, Senior Linguist

  • Fred Popowich, Chief Scientist

    • Colin Layfield, General Manager


    Colin Layfield oversees the development and application of Axonwave technology. Previously, he was Senior Algorithm Developer with Matrikon’s products group. More recently, he was the liaison between a University of Alberta research group and Matrikon development, where he guided research projects through commercialization.

    Dr. Layfield holds a Ph.D. in Computing Studies from the University of Leeds. He has extensive industry and academic experience with metaheuristics and constraint satisfaction problems, focussing particularly on scheduling and optimization.


    Amanda Schiffrin, Principal Computational Linguist


    Amanda Schiffrin works with the core text analytics capabilities of the Axonwave technology. She uses the Concept Specification Language to isolate information that has specific, context-sensitive meaning within a particular domain.

    Her main research and development experience is in computing language meaning in context and in semantic annotation. This includes amongst other things:

    • Dialogue modelling.
    • Developing metadata sets, test suites, and other technology to support the ISO Data Category Registry, specifically in the area of semantics.
    • Specifying standard methods for annotating language corpora.

    Dr. Schiffrin holds a Ph.D. from the School of Computing, University of Leeds. She is an author of numerous publications in the field of linguistic technology, especially natural language semantic/pragmatic processing and annotation.


    Tim Black, Requirements Analyst and Interaction Designer


    Tim Black is responsible for what the Axonwave software does and how it does it. At Matrikon, he was involved with the design of most products, notably Control Performance Monitor, previously known as ProcessDoctor. His concern for authenticity in product requirements led him to instigate customer-led product board meetings.

    His earlier experience includes working with a company developing multimedia authoring software, and before that, working on a large-scale SGML project for Canada’s Department of National Defence.

    Mr. Black has strong interests in data visualization and exploratory data analysis. He rather likes cats but is allergic to them.


    Lorna Fadden, Senior Linguist


    Lorna Fadden is the Senior Linguist at Axonwave, where she has provided linguistic expertise in Natural Language Processing since 2001. Before that, she worked as a linguist for Mindfuleye.com in artificial intelligence. She divides her time between her Axonwave work and her research in forensic linguistics in the areas of discourse and prosody.

    Dr. Fadden holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University and has taught at both Simon Fraser and the University of British Columbia. When not doing linguistics, she can be found running through parks with her three-legged black Labrador, Tip.


    Fred Popowich, Chief Scientist


    Dr. Fred Popowich is a recognized authority in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Over the course of his twenty-year research career, he has produced numerous refereed publications on the subject, and was chair of the Industry Canada sponsored committee overseeing the development of a language technology roadmap for Canada. His work in the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at Simon Fraser University is internationally recognized. Dr. Popowich is a key figure in the field of computational studies and a past president of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 and currently holds the position of Professor of Computing Science and Director of Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University. He and his colleagues jointly founded Axonwave Software in 1999, and have developed technologies for sophisticated classification, filtering, monitoring and retrieval of unstructured information, using natural language processing techniques. He has worked as a consultant for several technology companies and organizations, helping them convert technology into product and bring it to market.

    		   
    		 
     
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