Catherine Havasi (born 1981) is an American scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab.

[6] Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence from reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind.

[9] In 1999, she became involved in the MIT project Open Mind Common Sense with Minsky and Push Singh,[4] and was part of a team that created ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database.

[7] In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company building on the work of ConceptNet.

[2] In 2019, the U.S Embassy invited Dr. Catherine to Portugal to give a series of lectures on "Practical Natural Language Processing" due to her work at MIT, expanding the fields of transfer and meta learning, educational outreach, natural language understanding, and computational creativity.