About
The team behind the engine.
Behavioral Signals is a group of researchers, engineers and operators building the paralinguistic layer for voice AI – from Los Angeles, Athens and points in between.
01Team
The people building it.
Jim Demetriades
CEO & Chairman
Jim Demetriades (Jimmy) works at the intersection of breakthroughs in hard science and artificial intelligence, and their commercialization. He is CEO and Chairman of Behavioral Signals and Founder and CEO of Kairos Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners with universities to identify some of the world’s most important scientific discoveries and bring them to market. Kairos has invested in more than 55 deep-technology companies across AI, chemistry, healthcare, cybersecurity, plasma physics, nanotechnologies, and other transformative sectors. In 1989, Jim founded SeeBeyond Technology, which grew into the world’s largest organically grown and self-funded enterprise integration software company, serving thousands of organizations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, major healthcare systems, and government institutions. He started the company with $5,000, led Gartner’s recognition of it as the visionary creator of the enterprise application interaction category, took it public, and assembled a board that included founders and senior leaders from Accenture, Ernst & Young, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and EDS. As CEO & Chairman at Behavioral Signals, Jim contributes his expertise to the company’s vision for behavioral intelligence and AI-powered deepfake and synthetic-voice risk detection. His perspective extends beyond the technology itself, connecting the rapid evolution of generative AI with the broader challenges facing enterprises, governments, and critical infrastructure: how to establish trust in AI, protect organizations from synthetic media, and build secure, trustworthy human-AI interactions.
Shri Narayanan
Chief Scientist & Co-founder
There is a lot that we can say about Shri, our Chief Scientist. In fact, there is an entire Wikipedia page about his many accomplishments. He is a pioneer in human-centered information processing and communication technologies, with a special emphasis on behavioral signal processing and informatics. Shri brings his vision to the team, encouraging new ways of thinking. He informs and inspires us to reach beyond what is possible today, setting new standards for tomorrow. Granted, Shri is a very busy person, but in his leisure time he enjoys playing the sitar. He is a graduate, with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and is an Andrew J. Viterbi Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Shri holds appointments as Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and Pediatrics, and is the founding director of the Ming Hsieh Institute. Prior to USC, Shri was with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Research from 1995 to 2000. At USC he founded and currently directs the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), whose research spans speech emotion recognition, therapist-empathy modelling, cross-lingual dementia detection from speech, and behavioral analysis across health, education and media. Shri is an elected Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), has authored more than a thousand peer-reviewed publications, and is a co-inventor on the patents underpinning Behavioral Signals’ emotion-recognition technology.
Amal Chaudhuri
Chief Technology Officer
Amal leads Behavioral Signals’ technology organization and the translation of scientific and product vision into scalable technology platforms and customer deployments. A programmer and technology executive by background, he was CIO of Citigroup Asset Management, a Partner at J.P. Morgan, and a Managing Director at Bankers Trust. Earlier in his career, as an engineer at Teknekron — the company from which TIBCO emerged — he helped bring real-time digital trading systems to Wall Street. At Behavioral Signals, he works across technology strategy, engineering direction, and the productization of the company’s core science.
Popi Paraschaki
Marketing & Business Development Director
Popi leads Behavioral Signals’ marketing and business development, shaping how the company’s voice AI technology reaches enterprises, partners and the wider AI community. A communications strategist by background, she managed agency accounts for clients such as the National Bank of Greece and the American College of Greece, most recently as a Senior Account Manager at Ogilvy PR & Influence Greece. She has led large-scale communication campaigns for public and private organizations and, in the health sector, worked with the Hellenic Ministry of Health, the European Commission and the University of West Attica – School of Public Health. Her studies span Business Administration, Cultural Studies and Digital Marketing. At Behavioral Signals, she works across brand strategy, go-to-market, partnerships, PR and the company’s presence at international AI events.
02Advisory board
The people advising it.
Dr. Ben Goertzel
Goertzel is the CEO and founder of SingularityNET, a project combining artificial intelligence and blockchain to democratize access to artificial intelligence. He was a Director of Research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is also the chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University. Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot.
Dr. Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach is an AI researcher who has worked and published about cognitive architectures, models of mental representation, emotion, motivation, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. His cognitive architecture MicroPsi builds on a framework for simulating agents as neuro-symbolic spreading activation networks, situated in a simulation environment or fitted with robotic bodies. Joscha earned his Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He is especially interested in the philosophy of AI, and in using computational models and conceptual tools to understand our minds and what makes us human. He has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück, and the MIT Media Lab, and authored the book “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence”.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and the President of Sinovation Ventures’ Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$2.7 billion in dual currency investment funds, is a leading venture capital firm focusing on developing the next generation of high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Dr. Lee received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is the Co-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council for the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has appeared in Times 100 in 2013, WIRED 25 Icons, Asian Business Leader 2018 by Asia House, and was followed by over 50 million users on social media.