Kirk Baker

Current

• Project Lead, Portfolio Analysis Group at NIH
• Software Consultant/Data Analyst, Office of Research Information Systems at NIH

Past

• Engineering Intern at Motorola
• Engineering Intern at Motorola
• Research Associate at Duke University

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Education

• The Ohio State University
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Connections

20 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Kirk Baker’s Summary

Computer programmer and applied researcher who focuses on the application of machine learning techniques to very large data sets and has an extensive background in natural language processing.

Kirk Baker’s Specialties:

Text mining, data mining, machine learning, data visualization, statistical modeling, natural language processing (NLP)

Kirk Baker’s Experience

• Project Lead, Portfolio Analysis Group

  NIH

  (Government Agency; Research industry)

  December 2009 — Present (1 month)

• Software Consultant/Data Analyst, Office of Research Information Systems

  NIH

  (Government Agency; Research industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  I work half time on the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) system at the National Institutes of Health.
  
  I wrote software in Java, Python, SQL, and R to do things like document classification, mining biomedical concepts from text, data clustering and visualization, statistical analysis, and automated quality control for text extracted from various electronic sources. I also wrote programs to help the RCDC thesaurus team with Collexis' core ontology-based NLP tools.

• Engineering Intern

  Motorola

  (Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2005 — September 2005 (4 months)

  Center for Human Interaction Research
  Schaumburg, IL

• Engineering Intern

  Motorola

  (Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)

  Center for Human Interaction Research
  Schaumburg, IL

• Research Associate

  Duke University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  Voice and Natural Language Laboratory
  Department of Computer Science
  Durham, NC

Kirk Baker’s Education

• The Ohio State University

  PhD , Computational Linguistics , 2003 — 2008

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  MA , Linguistics , 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

Kirk Baker’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Kirk Baker’s Groups:

Association for Computational Linguistics,NIH Judo Club,United States Judo Federation

•    The Language Technology Group
•    Analytic Bridge
•    Natural Language Processing People
•    Language Jobs

Kirk Baker’s Honors:

Ohio State Graduate School Presidential Fellowship, 2007-2008

Kirk Baker’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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