Danica Damljanovic is a founder and AI leader with nine years of entrepreneurial experience building applied NLP and customer-intelligence platforms from research to market. As CEO of Sentient Machines she commercialises emotion-, intent- and language-aware systems that boost sales, cut churn and automate insight across 100% of customer interactions. She also runs Pure AI, offering deep expertise in NLU, dialogue systems, semantic search and ontology-driven information extraction, grounded in a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield. Her background includes leading language science and AI architecture roles that adapted SRI’s virtual assistant technology for education and large-scale trend-mining projects in EU research consortia. Comfortable at the intersection of product, research and engineering, she combines hands-on NLP/ML skills with a proven ability to translate language science into measurable business outcomes. Based in St Helier, Jersey, she has a track record of turning advanced semantic technologies into practical, revenue-driving solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
MSc Intelligent Information Systems, MSc Intelligent Information Systems at University of Belgrade
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Danica Damljanovic - CEO & Founder at Sentient Machines