Dr. Vance heads a team focused on advancing RAG text search and natural language understanding, bringing a decade of academic rigor to real-world enterprise challenges. She’s famous for her early morning coffee ritual, where she maps out complex algorithms on a whiteboard before anyone else arrives.
A cross-encoder reranker that looks instant on a laptop — 40 ms for ten candidates — turns into a 2.3-second wait when you hand it the top 100 chunks from.
