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Ulrik Stig Hansen
Co-founder and Co-CEO
Encord
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Hansen is pushing multimodal AI teams to treat data curation and annotation as core infrastructure, not a spreadsheet side job.
Ulrik Stig Hansen is co-founder and co-CEO of Encord, which builds tools to label and manage training data. He founded it in 2020 with Eric Landau, according to UKTN.
Curating Medical Images for a Master's Thesis
According to TechCrunch, Hansen was working on a master's thesis at Imperial College London on visualizing large sets of medical images. He noticed how long it took to curate labeled data sets, the "ground truths" algorithms learn from.
Out of Y Combinator With Medical Pilots
Encord came out of Y Combinator and ran pilots at Stanford Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Kings College London. Its tools let radiologists zoom in on DICOM images and label only the key portions.
