Education
University of Rochester
PhD, Computer Science 1991-01-01 - 1995-01-01Dartmouth College
BA, Computer Science 1985-01-01 - 1989-01-01Work Experience
University of Massachusetts
Current
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2002-01-01 - 2008-01-01
University of Massachusetts Amherst
WhizBang Labs
2000-01-01 - 2002-01-01
WhizBang Labs
Carnegie Mellon University
1996-01-01 - 2002-01-01
Carnegie Mellon University
Just Research (JPRC)
1996-01-01 - 2000-01-01
Just Research (JPRC)
University of Rochester
1991-01-01 - 1995-01-01
University of Rochester
Skills
Summary
Previously Vice President of Research and Development at WhizBang Labs, and and Director of their 30-person research and development lab in Pittsburgh, PA. Previously Research Scientist and Coordinator at "Just Research" (Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center). Previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, with Sebastian Thrun and Tom Mitchell. Specialties: Information extraction from unstructured text on the Web, in email and elsewhere, text data mining, social network analysis, statistical machine learning, Bayesian networks, graphical models. Developer of several toolkits for machine learning, text processing, NLP and data mining: RAINBOW http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/bow/rainbow/ MALLET http://mallet.cs.umass.edu FACTORIE http://code.google.com/p/factorie/