Senior Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
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- Senior Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters
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- Senior Research Scientist at Thomson Legal & Regulatory
- Research Scientist at Thomson West
- Visiting Instructor at East China University of Science & Technology
- Math & Science Instructor at U.S. Peace Corps
- Education
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- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- The University of British Columbia
- Marquette University
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Jack G. Conrad’s Summary
I currently work with the Research & Development group within Thomson Reuters. I focus on a broad range of technical application areas involving artificial intelligence and textual data processing. I also foster cross-group collaboration and communication in the process of implementing and deploying technology to meet business needs.
Previously, I was employed as a research assistant for Prof. Bruce Croft at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In former lives, I served as a foreign instructor at the East China University of Science & Technology in Shanghai. I also taught high school-level math and science for a number of years in Southern Africa (Swaziland) and West Africa (Togo) with the U.S. Peace Corps.
Jack G. Conrad’s Specialties:
Research areas of particular interest include information retrieval, data clustering, machine learning, sentiment analysis, and system evaluation.
Jack G. Conrad’s Experience
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Senior Research Scientist
Thomson Reuters
(Information Services industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
Lead consulting efforts for technology transfer from research into new products and internal operations.
Develop and evaluate state-of-art algorithms for real-time environments.
Research and implement technologies for search and entity-resolution-related applications in large operational environments (leveraging technologies such as information clustering, retrieval, and extraction). -
Senior Research Scientist
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2007 (6 years)
Developed and evaluated state-of-art algorithms for real-time identical and non-identical duplicate document detection applications harnessing rapid and compact digital signatures in a production repository managing tens of millions of documents.
Researched and implemented resource discovery technology for Global Search applications in a massive operational environment consisting of over 20,000 databases that resulted in a ten-fold increase in usage of company's resource discovery tools. -
Research Scientist
Thomson West
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Legal Services industry)
1996 — 2000 (4 years)
Developed core technology for new online legal citator service generating $32 million a year and growing 30% annually.
Launched research in state-of-art database discovery tools and guided their implementation in production environments.
Designed, implemented, and formally evaluated new online information discovery resource responsible for efficient business solutions, resulting in tens of thousands of additional client transactions per year. -
Visiting Instructor
East China University of Science & Technology
(Education Management industry)
1990 — 1991 (1 year)
Completely responsible for designing and teaching courses in English for technology and business students, where many of my graduate students were being groomed for additional advanced studies overseas.
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Math & Science Instructor
U.S. Peace Corps
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry)
1984 — 1989 (5 years)
Lycee Kara, Kara, Republic of Togo (1987-89)
--- Language of instruction: French
Ekukhanyeni High School, Kingdom of Swaziland (1984-87)
--- Language of instruction: English
--- As a secondary project, designed a 40,000 liter reservoir for local community, then applied for and secured funds to help build it, which resulted in a constant, clean and distributed source of water for our school and neighborhood.
Jack G. Conrad’s Education
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.S. , Computer Science , 1991 — 1994
Specialized in Information Retrieval under Prof. Bruce Croft
Delivered paper at the 2004 SIGIR conference entitled
"A System for Discovering Relationships by Feature Extraction from Text Databases"- Activities and Societies:
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Representative for the Graduate Student Union
Led Summer Hiking Club
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The University of British Columbia
M.A. , English/Linguistics , 1981 — 1984
Taught First-year English Course for Three Years
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Student Council Representative
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Marquette University
B.S. , Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), Minor: English , 1975 — 1980
Co-op Student Employed by 3M Company
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Eta Kappa Nu
Tau Beta Pi
Alpha Sigma Nu
Student Council Representative
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Jack G. Conrad’s Interests:
Technology Trends, International Travel, Cycling, Running, Swimming, Hiking, Camping, Climbing
Jack G. Conrad’s Groups:
Member of the Executive Committee for the International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, SIGIR, CIKM, ICAIL), ASIST
Minnesota Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Past President)
Friends of Swaziland (Communications Chair)
Friends of the Eagan Core Greenway (Co-Chair)
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Marquette University Alumni Association (MUAA) -
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ACM SIGIR
Jack G. Conrad’s Honors:
Earth Share Champion of the Year
Sargent Shriver Peace Worker of the Year Award (1 of 2 Finalists)
W.D. Bliss Cooperative Education Student of the Year Award
Jack G. Conrad’s Contact Settings
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