SIGNTEL - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Scientist
• President and Chief Executive Officer of Signtel, Inc
• President, Chief Executive Officer & Chief of Technology

Raanan Liebermann, Ph.D. is the president and chief executive officer of Signtel, Inc., a company dedicated to the development of assistive devices and technologies for the deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, visually impaired and deaf/low vision as well as facilitating communication between these groups and the hearing. In addition to his leadership and business management roles, Dr. Liebermann is chief of technology and leads the high technology team in developing usages of artificial intelligence in complex lexical analysis and image recognition technologies. Dr. Raanan Liebermann is a physicist and computer scientist with expertise in both computer hardware and software and its applications in telecommunications. He is one of the innovators in Internet technology and infrastructure. His new technology that uses the Internet as a vehicle for providing service in merging personal communication and financial transactions, has already won acclaims from major telecommunications carriers. Previously professor of physics at the Federal University in Recife, Brazil and then at Yale University, where he was engaged in applied research, Dr. Raanan Liebermann was also the director of the Laboratory for Advanced Studies in New Haven, CT. He has done work in computer architecture and design, complex data-base architecture and design, quantum mechanics, solid state, high energy and plasma physics. Dr. Liebermann also has international business development experience. He has worked in the international shipping and finance industries, in multinational large-scale real estate development, and has successfully arranged strategic alliances with companies in the United States, Israel, Italy and Hong Kong. Dr. Raanan Liebermann holds a Doctorate in physics from the University of Oxford at Magdalen College. He is published in numerous scientific journals, including Journal of Computational Physics and the Computers and Mathematics with Applications: An International Journal. He is the recipient of the Dante Aleghieri Award from the Italian government; the Unidel Excellence in Teaching Award; the CERN studentship (Geneva, Switzerland); a DuPont Research Fellowship; a NASA research fellowship for work on the Hubble Telescope; and the U.S. Army Luminescence Centers Research Fellowship, among other honors.