Information extraction technology advantage

Panscient supplies content to vertical search engines by crawling the web and aggregating data on specific topics.

Panscient's team has a strong background in research and commercial information extraction systems. We have expertise in large-scale web crawling, machine learning, natural language processing, document classification, entity extraction, search index construction and data storage. We use state-of-the-art statistical algorithms and large-scale data processing capabilities to turn unstructured, distributed web content into highly targeted, structured data collections.

Panscient is a privately-held company located in Herndon, Virginia.

Management Team

Dr. Jonathan Baxter | CEO

Jonathan is the CEO and a co-founder of Panscient. He previously served as Director of Product Architecture at WhizBang! Labs and as a research professor at the Australian National University. Jonathan has a B.Sc in Mathematical Physics and Computer Science with first class honours from Adelaide University and a PhD in Mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.

Kristie Seymore | President

Kristie is a co-founder of Panscient. She previously held the positions of Manager of Core Technology, team lead and research scientist at WhizBang! Labs. She has contributed to information extraction systems for corporate information, jobs, educational courses and academic publications. Kristie has a M.Sc. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.