Ken Williams

Current

Senior Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters

Past

Mathematics Teacher at St. Paul Academy & Summit School
Consultant at Digital River

Education

University of Sydney
Swarthmore College
St. Paul Academy and Summit School

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Ken Williams’s Summary

I am a Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters, a.k.a. Thomson/West, a.k.a. Westlaw. Our department focuses on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, and so on. We do a lot of applied research and a fair amount of speculative research.

I got my Master's degree from the University of Sydney in Australia, studying under Rafael Calvo. Before that I was an independent consultant/programmer, doing mostly Perl programming. Clients included the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Howard Dean For America presidential campaign.

Before that I was a high school math teacher for a couple years, and before that I was a programmer at the Math Forum in Swarthmore, PA. At Swarthmore College, I majored in Math and Music.

Ken Williams’s Specialties:

Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Support Vector Machines, the R Statistical environment, Perl, managing resources with Perforce, computing with probability & statistics.

Ken Williams’s Experience

Senior Research Scientist

Thomson Reuters

(Public Company; TRI; Information Services industry)

September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)
Mathematics Teacher

St. Paul Academy & Summit School

(Primary/Secondary Education industry)

August 1999 — July 2000 (1 year )
Consultant

Digital River

(Public Company; Research industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Ken Williams’s Education

University of Sydney

MEng(R) , Software Engineering, Machine Learning , 2002 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

Member of the Sydney Philharmonia choir
Swarthmore College

1992 — 1996
St. Paul Academy and Summit School

1989 — 1992