Arshavir Blackwell

Current

• Senior Research Scientist at Fox Interactive Media

Past

• Principal Computer Scientist at MetaLINCS
• Senior Scientist/Director of Research at H5 Technologies
• Senior Engineer at Entrieva, Inc.

• Principal Scientist at Comprecorp
• Senior Engineer at Ask Jeeves
• Teaching Assistant at UC, San Diego

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Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Brown University

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Arshavir Blackwell’s Summary

Artificial Intelligence Engineer with expertise in machine learning, text mining, advanced search, and automated natural language processing. Extensive experience in designing adaptive, language-using applications and in directing research projects that study how humans and automated systems learn and use language.

Arshavir Blackwell’s Specialties:

Java (10 years), C (10+ years), C++ (10 years), SAS (10+ years)

Arshavir Blackwell’s Experience

• Senior Research Scientist

  Fox Interactive Media

  (Public Company; NWS; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

• Principal Computer Scientist

  MetaLINCS

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)

  February 2007 — December 2007 (11 months)

  Lead innovation in improving and extending our text mining software, which is designed primarily for large-scale document analysis in the legal industry.

• Senior Scientist/Director of Research

  H5 Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Legal Services industry)

  June 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  Lead research and development. Research and develop improvements to current business processes in order to increase accuracy and speed and lower cost. This requires a) a complete understanding of research and analytical methodologies needed to evaluate the performance of the business processes, especially as they relate to large scale document analysis; b) expert skill in Java; and c) expertise in a wide variety of natural language processing algorithms.
  
  Build software tools. Using Java and Java Server Faces (JSF), act as part of the team to architect, develop, and test new tools, particularly search. These tools support the company’s core mission, which is to analyze very large (on the order of millions) document sets, in order to identify documents relevant to a particular legal case. Languages & operating systems: Java, Windows, UNIX.

• Senior Engineer

  Entrieva, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 6 months)

  Unstructured document management applications. Using C++ and Java, maintain and upgrade current categorization software central to solutions provided by Entrieva. Architect new solutions to augment current product portfolio in order to expand the company’s services and increase its competitiveness.

• Principal Scientist

  Comprecorp

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

  Lead on project to design and implement engine of the Comprecorp Classifier, intended to classify e-mail and other such free-text documents of arbitrary length, according to user-specified categories, which functions without user assistance by example from looking at documents already in categories. Potential uses of such a system go beyond e-mail classification, to a wide variety large-scale document management and data mining applications.

• Senior Engineer

  Ask Jeeves

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ASKJ; Computer Software industry)

  March 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 10 months)

  Jeeves automation project. Lead on project to improve accuracy and lower cost for Jeeves question-answering system, which utilized expert programming skills and a thorough understanding of research and analytical methodologies to evaluate system performance by appending, upgrading and devising new knowledge bases that were amenable to adaptive automation, created design specifications. In addition, I lead a team in writing code to implement those changes. Other responsibilities included evaluating the performance of various question-answering systems using tools and methodologies standard to psycholinguistics and computational linguistics, including signal-detection theory and analysis-of-variance (ANOVA); assisting in the evaluation and working on adapting third-party software designed to extract ontologies from very large databases of raw user input collected on question-answering sites; and extending and maintaining applications to verify integrity of proprietary databases.

• Teaching Assistant

  UC, San Diego

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1989 — June 1995 (5 years 10 months)

  Teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology.

Arshavir Blackwell’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  PhD , Cognitive Science, Psychology, Linguistics , September 1989 — November 1995

• Brown University

  AB , Cognitive Science , September 1983 — May 1987

Additional Information

Arshavir Blackwell’s Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery

•    Brown University Alumni of Los Angeles

Arshavir Blackwell’s Honors:

Patent application, "Analyzing Content To Determine Context And Serving Relevant Content Based On The Context," PCT/US2006/049156

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