Another brilliant mind effectively and productively changing the world. Elijah is a good example of what happens when you stick to your academic plan, attend a prestigious Northeast American university, have great mentorship in your research and networking opportunities. And publish as often as possible. Not only did he found a technology startup, his company was acquired by the right partner – Turnitin. Natural language processing and data mining are huge areas right now with much work being done in Big Data. I see that Elijah was awarded an enviable IBM research fellowship and also worked at the IMB Watson labs.
Elijah is now featured on the Management page of TurnitIn: http://turnitin.com/en_us/about-us/management-team/elijah-mayfield