Severin Hacker

Severin Hacker
Born (1984-07-06) July 6, 1984 (age 40)
Alma materETH Zurich (BS)
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Known forDuolingo
Scientific career
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisorLuis von Ahn

Severin Hacker (born July 6, 1984) is a Swiss computer scientist who is the co-founder and CTO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Siegler, MG (April 12, 2011). "Meet Duolingo, Google's Next Acquisition Target; Learn A Language, Help The Web". TechCrunch.
  2. ^ Geron, Tomio (September 17, 2012). "Duolingo Gets $15 Million To Translate The World's Text Through Online Learning". Forbes.
  3. ^ Doyle, Patrick. "A novel approach to learning languages is making the Web more accessible". MIT Technology Review.
  4. ^ "Duolingo: The Most Popular Language Learning App". Online Course Report. 30 May 2018.

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