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My main research interests are natural language processing and especially machine translation. In practice to achieve anything interesting this means applying machine learning to human language. Concretely I am less interested not so much in improving average accuracy but rather in achieving common sense and robustness in natural language systems nearer to the level observable in multilingual humans.
Beyond natural language processing and artificial intelligence my interests in software include search / information retrieval, transliteration and internationalization/internationalisation/i18n/i10n, security topics for privacy and freedom, finance and prediction markets, programming languages, TLDs / domain names, UI/UX and entrepreneurship and investing.
Since 2013 I have been active as a technical founder. From 2007 to 2013 I was Software Engineer at Google in Mountain View, California. At Google I initially joined the development of a proprietary business data storage platform and Android / Google Play, and was then led by love of human language to help add Arabic transliteration to the Google Language API, and then to join the Google Translate team.
On Translate my projects included eng ownership of the then launching Translation Manager for custom translations, the translation API integrated by the Chromium project ie the Google Chrome browser and experiments with automatic query correction to improve perceived translation quality. I also was happy to participate as a technical linguist and polyglot in efforts around language identification, error/quality analyses, query/index normalisation and new language launches.
While at Google I also had the pleasure of completing Stanford University’s CS121 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and CS276 Information Retrieval and Web Search taught by the authors of the book themselves, Prof. Chris Manning and then Head of Yahoo Research Prabhakar Raghavan.
Before Google I interned as a software engineer at Adobe Systems and Cerner, while on my way to earning a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, where my final year’s projects included writing a Bayesian spam classifier in Python, implementing a Java compiler in Java, image recognition in C, and running GIZA++ and now very quaint presentation on using Wikipedia to train machine translation systems and learn named entities.
To support the global developer community I have spoken on varied programming topics at developer events in Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.
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