Victor Barres

Victor Barres is a Research Scientist at Sierra specializing in conversational AI, dialogue modeling, and the integration of large language models with reasoning systems. He holds a PhD in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Southern California. Previously, Victor was a Senior Researcher at Elemental Cognition, where he developed architectures that combine language models and symbolic reasoning systems to enable complex scientific question answering. As a Principal NLP Scientist at Uniphore, he led the NLP research team and drove advances in dialogue systems and language models for large-scale real-world applications. Victor's work bridges academic research and industry innovation, with publications spanning artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and natural language processing.