Rajant Corp. Welcomes Jon Lederman as VP of AI
Lederman will work to enable new applications and capabilities for Rajant’s wireless mesh network partners and end customers.
Jon Lederman
MALVERN, Pa. — Rajant Corp., the provider of Kinetic Mesh wireless networks, announces Jon Lederman has joined the team as vice president of artificial intelligence (AI).
In this newly created position, Lederman will enable new applications and capabilities for Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh partners and end customers to enhance their productivity further using machine learning. Target markets include warehouse automation, robotics, energy, transportation, public safety, military and mining.
“Artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics will unleash even greater potential within the industrial network Rajant has created, making it future-ready for the complexity of next-generation applications,” states Rajant CEO Robert Schena. “Jon’s know-how and entrepreneurial work ethic are the right fit for Rajant’s strategic roadmap of innovation.”
Lederman is a tech entrepreneur, scientist and engineer. He is the CEO and founder of New York-based Spinor, which is developing AI technology for creating conversational voice experiences for enterprise and consumer applications. He also co-founded, conceptualized and built the core technology for San Francisco-based audio technology startup SonicCloud that has received recognition and acclaim from Apple, Google, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital, and others.
“Advances in AI, machine learning and computing resources are revolutionizing many aspects of the world economy as well as enterprise and consumer products,” Lederman says. “Reliable access to real-time data is critical for AI to be effective, and Rajant’s low latency layer 2 machine-to-machine communication is the ideal platform to realize these new applications.”
Having started his education with a B.A. from Harvard University, Lederman has conducted doctoral work in physics at the University of California Los Angeles and masters work in electrical engineering at Columbia University and Stanford University. He conducted doctoral research in physics at Brookhaven National Lab in muon physics under his advisor Dr. David Cline (UCLA), and development of a muon collider supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Muon Accelerator Program (“MAP”).
He holds multiple patents and patents pending, including various inventions relating to deep learning as well as hearing enhancement inventions.
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