John Licato
Associate Professor
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Licato is a tenured associate professor and AI researcher with nearly 20 years of experience specializing in NLP-driven reasoning, cognitive modeling, and legal reasoning. He leads the Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning Lab at USF, has guided three PhD graduates, and authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications while introducing an upper-level NLP course at USF before the recent LLM surge. As founder and CEO of Actualization.AI, he translates academic research into practical tools like the SquarePact contract review product. A frequent public communicator with over 100 talks and media appearances in 2025 alone, he blends deep scholarly rigor from an RPI PhD with entrepreneurial focus and government-collaboration experience (Air Force Research Laboratory fellowship).
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at University of South AlabamaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (13)
ais7
simulation6
python5
swi-prolog4
reinforcement-learning4
nlp3
ace3
controlled3
parser2
grammar1
agda1
translation1
natural-language-processing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RAIRLab/pyPAGI
Mar 2015 - May 2018
The python helper library for PAGI World.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 2 months
pythonhelper-library
Advancing-Machine-Human-Reasoning-Lab/NLIwithACE
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:26 commits in 3 months
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