brendan o'connor

Current

• Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
• Scientific Advisor at Dolores Labs

Past

• Software Engineering, Relevance Science at Powerset
• Intern at Open Source Applications Foundation

Education

• Stanford University
• Stanford University

Connections

94 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

brendan o'connor’s Summary

I'm interested in data analysis, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, especially with applications in social sciences: econ, polisci, sociology, OB, psych, etc.

brendan o'connor’s Specialties:

data analysis, natural language processing, machine learning

brendan o'connor’s Experience

• Graduate Student

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  July 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Language Technologies Institute

• Scientific Advisor

  Dolores Labs

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Lots of Amazon Mechanical Turk! Data analysis, survey design, machine learning, web engineering, and the like. See blog.doloreslabs.com for some examples.

• Software Engineering, Relevance Science

  Powerset

  (Internet industry)

  September 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  I do engineering and science work: relevance ranking, search quality evaluation, and natural language processing. Also some system architecture and tool building.

• Intern

  Open Source Applications Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2005 — September 2005 (3 months)

brendan o'connor’s Education

• Stanford University

  M.S. (coterm) , Symbolic Systems , 2005 — 2006

• Stanford University

  B.S. , Symbolic Systems , 2001 — 2005

Additional Information

brendan o'connor’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

brendan o'connor’s Interests:

see anyall.org

brendan o'connor’s Groups:

•    Semantic Web
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Text Analytics
•    Stanford Symbolic Systems Program

brendan o'connor’s Contact Settings

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• job inquiries
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• business deals
• reference requests
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