Veracient LLC, a minority-owned small business, was founded by Dr. John Cheng in April, 2009 with a focus in the domain of machine learning.   While machine learning remains our emphasis today, we have broad capabilities in other technical areas.  See Services.

About the founder
Dr. Cheng received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has two undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT. His research expertise is in the area of Machine Learning, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence.  Dr. Cheng has over 16 years of experience in applying leading-edge computer science and Machine Learning solutions to governmental and healthcare applications.  Prior to founding Veracient, he served as the PI for various defense research programs such as DARPA's COORDINATORs and ARDA's Novel Intelligence Over Massive Data (NIMD).  He was also previously a co-founder of a startup company called Antaire Corporation, that performed employee scheduling for McDonalds chains and over 200 healthcare facilities in the nation.  Antaire Corporation was acquired by a large healthcare company in 2005.