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Ramin Assadollahi is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience, having built companies with teams of up to 85 people and raised over €50 million in funding. He successfully exited to Nokia with his pioneering text-input technology, deployed in 75 languages.

An innovator at the forefront of artificial intelligence, he holds more than 20 international patents (pending or granted) and has authored 18 peer-reviewed publications along with four book chapters. His passion for technology began early: he wrote his first chatbot at the age of 12 and was among the first researchers to study Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Germany.

Ramin earned his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience after eight years of academic research on how the human brain processes language. More recently, he initiated the open-source humanoid project Kayra, combining his deep expertise in language, cognition, and robotics.