# Andrei Mikheev

> Andrei Mikheev is a computational linguist and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Daxtra in 2002 with Steve Finch. His career connects research at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Edinburgh with multilingual CV parsing and candidate matching. Formerly Daxtra’s CEO, he is identified in its August 2026 writing as Chief Architect and Innovation Officer.

- **Role:** Chief Architect and Innovation Officer at Daxtra
- **Organizations:** Daxtra, University of Edinburgh, Russian Academy of Sciences, Infogistics
- **Nationality:** British and Russian
- **Education:** PhD; research in Russian morphology, syntactic parsing and knowledge acquisition from corpora
- **Known for:** Co-founded Daxtra in 2002., Published peer-reviewed computational linguistics research on unknown words, named entities and text normalisation., Authored the Text Segmentation chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics.

## Career timeline

- **Before 1993** — Began his research career at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- **1993** — Joined the University of Edinburgh, working on machine learning for language technology.
- **1995** — Co-authored research with Steven Finch on acquiring domain knowledge from natural language.
- **1997** — Published research on unknown-word guessing and co-authored A Workbench for Finding Structure in Texts with Finch.
- **1999** — Co-authored Named Entity Recognition without Gazetteers with Marc Moens and Claire Grover.
- **2002** — Co-founded Daxtra with Steve Finch; published Periods, Capitalized Words, etc.
- **2017** — Visited Daxtra’s Richmond office and attended a CodeVA fundraiser.
- **2023-06** — Participated alongside Finch in Daxtra’s majority growth investment from Strattam Capital.
- **2023-10** — Succeeded as CEO by Terry Baker; announced as continuing board member and incoming Chief Innovation Architect.
- **2026-08** — Co-authored an article on AI search and recruitment matching as Chief Architect and Innovation Officer.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Daxtra in 2002.
- Published peer-reviewed computational linguistics research on unknown words, named entities and text normalisation.
- Authored the Text Segmentation chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics.
- Served as Daxtra CEO before its October 2023 leadership transition.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Daxtra published his article with Paige La Fever on the distinction between AI search and recruitment matching, identifying him as Chief Architect and Innovation Officer.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei-mikheev-19b2284/

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Last updated: 2026-10-22