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Russell Horton
Verified Expert in Engineering
GPT Developer
Russell builds data-driven products and data-driven teams. He has more than 15 years of experience inventing, rapidly prototyping, and deploying products driven by machine learning and natural language processing. Russell loves consulting on data science projects in the early stages.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Prototyping, Natural Language Processing (NLP), GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Scala, Python
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was an early detection system for emerging pandemics for the Defense Threat Reduction agency, powered by textual analysis of local news.
Work Experience
Senior Security Analyst
GitHub
- Oversaw machine learning for abuse and fraud prevention.
Lead Data Scientist
Verizon Labs
- Built movie and TV recommendations system.
- Innovated and prototyped numerous TV and movie viewing products and product features.
- Led team of data scientists to build the future of TV.
- Used NLP to analyze television captions to power new viewing experiences.
Senior Data Scientist
EcoHealth Alliance
- Developed a machine learning system to detect emerging disease epidemics.
- Built an open-source NLP annotation framework.
- Led a heterogenous team including data science, design, and dev ops.
Computational Linguist
Reverb
- Built a content-based recommender system for news and web content.
- Developed a data-driven dictionary.
- Built a search with an auto-complete feature.
- Designed a machine for entity and concept recognition.
Experience
Linguistic Annotation Framework
http://github.com/ecohealthalliance/annieEducation
Master's Degree in Lingustics
UCSD - San Diego, California
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Lingustics
University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Stanford NLP
Tools
Apple Logic Studio
Languages
Python, Scala, JavaScript
Frameworks
Spark
Platforms
Meteor
Storage
MongoDB
Other
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Prototyping
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