Catalin Voss

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Presented by Northeastern University Experiential Entrepreneurship Speaker Series and the Mills College at Northeastern University Foundational Lectures Series

Technology & Entrepreneurship for Good!

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Catalin Voss smiles looking directly into the camera, dressed in a purple patterned shirt, standing in front of a plaza. Photo courtesy of Catalin Voss.

Catalin Voss is a German-Romanian inventor and social entrepreneur who first came to the United States at the age of 15 to build iPhone applications for a venture-backed startup before enrolling at Stanford University. While a student at Stanford, Voss created the Autism Glass Project, which developed emotion-recognition software to assist autistic children with recognizing social cues exchanged with other people. Winner of MIT's Lemelson Award, Voss has built and sold several startups focused on building practical applications of AI for social impact. He has used machine learning to identify disparities in Parole Hearing transcripts, brought (and won) a legal case against the the State of California, built a low cost point-of-sale system for small shops in East Africa (acquired by Mastercard), and developed computer vision algorithms to identify methane-seeping holes in the arctic ice. His latest endeavor is Y-Combinator startup Ello, building an AI Teacher Reading Coach.