Stephane H. Maes

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Chief AI Zen.era, CTO/CPO IFS EMS/ITSM/ITOM & PhD CTO/Chief Scientist ESSEM Research

Stephane H. Maes
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EDUCATION

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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
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Scopus Publications

35018

Scholar Citations

90

Scholar h-index

373

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Enterprise Agentic AI Should Use Real-Time Discovery & Self-Coding (RTDC) Integration Instead Of Static Tool-Registry Protocols like MCP
    SH Maes, R Sunkara, A Ryabov
    Preprint , 2026
    2026
  • Autonomous Enterprises Need Discovery, Self Coding And Application Awareness
    SH Maes
    Preprint , 2026
    2026
  • MCP is a problem for Enterprise AI
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shmaes_enterpriseai-agenticai … , 2026
    2026
  • Avoid MCP for Enterprise Agentic AI
    SH Maes
    https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.20368423 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • MCP is Limiting Agentic AI in Enterprises
    SH Maes
    https://zenodo.org/records/20368424 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • MCP is Limiting Agentic AI in Enterprises
    SH Maes
    https://shmaes.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/mcp-is-limiting-agentic-ai-in … , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • One should prioritize investment in enterprise-suited AI agentic framework instead of next-gen LLMs
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    Linkedin Post , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Avoid MCP for Enterprise Agentic AI
    SH Maes
    https://shmaes.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/mcp-is-limiting-agentic-ai-in … , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Transforming Security Operations with Agentic SIEM
    SH Maes
    Zenera , 2026
    2026
  • Transforming Manufacturing Operations with Agentic ERP
    SH Maes
    Zenera , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Awareness Is the Real Differentiator in Enterprise AI
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    Zenera + linkedin post , 2026
    2026
  • Enterprise AI right now has a maturity problem.
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    Linkedin Post , 2026
    2026
  • Evaluating the Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: A Post-February 2026 Analysis
    SH Maes
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19103818 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 3
  • Evaluating the Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: A Post-February 2026 Analysis
    SH Maes
    https://shmaes.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/evaluating-the-efficacy-of … , 2026
    2026
  • Vibe-Coding and SDLC Constrained And Managed By An Application-Aware AI-Like Agentic Platform
    SH Maes
    https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.18972674 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 4
  • Vibe-Coding and SDLC Constrained And Managed By An Application-Aware AI-Like Agentic Platform
    SH Maes
    https://shmaes.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/vibe-coding-and-sdlc-constrained-and … , 2026
    2026
  • The death of SAAS and the enterprise apps: an application of the strangler fig pattern
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    Linkedin , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Agentic AI Platform with Agent Rewind, and Reliable execution
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    Zenera Newletter , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Enterprise Analytics Reimagined, Build live reports and dashboards in minutes – no pipelines, no coding
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    https://zenera.ai/zeneraanalytics , 2026
    2026
  • Vibe Coding = More Code. Is it good,though?
    SH Maes, R Sunkara
    Zenera + linkedin post , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Portable information and transaction processing system and method utilizing biometric authorization and digital certificate security
    SH Maes, J Sedivy
    US Patent 6,016,476 , 2000
    2000
    Citations: 1076
  • System and method for multi-modal focus detection, referential ambiguity resolution and mood classification using multi-modal input
    SH Maes, CV Neti
    US Patent 6,964,023 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 1055
  • Universal IP-based and scalable architectures across conversational applications using web services for speech and audio processing resources
    SH Maes, DM Lubensky, A Sakrajda
    US Patent 6,801,604 , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 1013
  • Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols
    SH Maes
    US Patent 6,934,756 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 883
  • Apparatus and methods for user recognition employing behavioral passwords
    D Kanevsky, SH Maes
    US Patent 6,421,453 , 2002
    2002
    Citations: 588
  • Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine
    D Coffman, LD Comerford, S DeGennaro, EA Epstein, P Gopalakrishnan, ...
    US Patent 7,729,916 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 575
  • Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine
    D Coffman, LD Comerford, S DeGennaro, EA Epstein, P Gopalakrishnan, ...
    US Patent 7,137,126 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 535
  • Methods and systems for authoring of mixed-initiative multi-modal interactions and related browsing mechanisms
    JA Healey, RA Hosn, SH Maes, TLV Raman, A Tiwari
    US Patent 7,546,382 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 528
  • A nonlinear squeezing of the continuous wavelet transform based on auditory nerve models
    I Daubechies, S Maes
    Wavelets in medicine and biology, 527-546 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 525
  • Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine
    D Coffman, LD Comerford, S DeGennaro, EA Epstein, P Gopalakrishnan, ...
    US Patent 8,082,153 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 518
  • Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols
    SH Maes
    US Patent 7,529,675 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 492
  • Systems and methods for implementing modular DOM (Document Object Model)-based multi-modal browsers
    D Boloker, RA Hosn, PJ Jang, J Kleindienst, T Macek, SH Maes, ...
    US Patent 7,028,306 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 455
  • System and method for providing network coordinated conversational services
    SH Maes, P Gopalakrishnan
    US Patent 7,003,463 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 450
  • Apparatus and methods for speaker verification/identification/classification employing non-acoustic and/or acoustic models and databases
    D Kanevsky, SH Maes
    US Patent 5,897,616 , 1999
    1999
    Citations: 422
  • Conversational data mining
    D Kanevsky, SH Maes, JS Sorensen
    US Patent 6,665,644 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 411
  • Automated traffic mapping
    NJ Alewine, JC Colson, AP Ittycheriah, SH Maes, PA Moskowitz
    US Patent 6,150,961 , 2000
    2000
    Citations: 406
  • Using location as a presence attribute
    SH Maes
    US Patent 8,675,852 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 405
  • Methods and systems for authoring of mixed-initiative multi-modal interactions and related browsing mechanisms
    JA Healey, RA Hosn, SH Maes, TLV Raman, A Tiwari
    US Patent 8,572,209 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 391
  • MVC (model-view-controller) based multi-modal authoring tool and development environment
    JM Lucassen, SH Maes
    US Patent 6,996,800 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 337
  • System and method for indexing and querying audio archives
    D Kanevsky, SH Maes
    US Patent 6,434,520 , 2002
    2002
    Citations: 332

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