Edgar Meij is the head of Bloomberg’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Discovery team in Bloomberg’s Engineering department. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam and has an extensive track record in information retrieval, natural language processing, and machine learning. Edgar leads several groups of researchers and engineers that work on graph analytics, question answering, and smart contextual suggestions with severe latency constraints. Together, these researchers and engineers build, maintain, and leverage the company’s Question Answering systems and the Bloomberg Knowledge Graph, together with its advanced machine learning-based analytics which are used to drive accurate, timely, and contextual financial insights.