Dr. Matthias Denecke is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Agilingua, LLC. Dr. Denecke has founded Agilingua, LLC. in 2004 following more than 10 years of extensive research and career experience in the spoken dialogue system field.

Prior to founding Agilingua, LLC., Dr. Denecke served as a Research Associate for NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan, as a Postdoctoral Fellow for Carnegie Mellon University.

His awards and stipends include the 2004 NTT Shocho Fund, 2002 FZI Dissertation Award given by Karlsruhe Research Center of Computer Science for outstanding dissertations. He has participated in several international academic research projects such as European Union Project VODIS (Voice Operated Driver Information System), Multimodal Robot Control funded by the Army Research Lab, General Motors Car Navigation Project, Interactive Meeting Room in Chill funded by the European Union, Command Post of the Future funded by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. Dr. Denecke has more than 30 publications in workshops, conferences and journals.

Dr. Matthias Denecke received a Master in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe in 1995 and a Master in Computational Linguistics from the University of Stuttgart in 1996. He received a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe in 2002. His dissertation was on the rapid prototyping of spoken dialogue systems.

While at Carnegie Mellon University, he developed the open source spoken dialogue system Ariadne which has been used for multiple academic and commercial projects including The Human-Robot Interaction Operation System by NASA, 2006.