Joseph Turian

Current

• Founder and President at MetaOptimize LLC
• Postdoctoral research fellow at Université de Montréal

Past

• Summer research associate at MIT AI Lab

Education

• New York University
• Harvard University
• Great Neck North High School

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Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Joseph Turian’s Summary

Joseph Turian has been working on artificial intelligence research since 1996. His focus is on using sophisticated machine learning techniques to approach large-scale problems in natural language. He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Université de Montréal, studying deep learning methods with Professor Yoshua Bengio, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms. Dr. Turian defended his dissertation, "Constituent Parsing by Classification" at New York University. He received his AB from Harvard University in Computer Science (cum laude).

Joseph Turian’s Experience

• Founder and President

  MetaOptimize LLC

  (Research industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Machine learning and natural processing. Unlike most groups that can provide cutting-edge ML and NLP technology, MetaOptimize understands business strategy, sales, and marketing. Unlike pure scientists who need to be asked for a specific technological solution, we approach our projects from business perspective, and work backwards to figure out the required technology.

• Postdoctoral research fellow

  Université de Montréal

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  I study deep machine learning methods with Professor Yoshua Bengio (Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms), as part of the Adaptive Computer Systems Laboratory / Laboratoire d'Informatique des Systèmes Adaptatifs (LISA).

• Summer research associate

  MIT AI Lab

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

  I did summer research on feature selection techniques for neural networks. This work culminated in the work "Automated feature selection to maximize learning in artificial intelligence". I received the Westinghouse award for this work, among others.

Joseph Turian’s Education

• New York University

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2001 — 2007

  Dissertation: "Constituent Parsing by Classification"

• Harvard University

  AB , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Programming team (8th Place Team Standing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in the Netherlands April 1999), Harvard Advocate

• Great Neck North High School

Additional Information

Joseph Turian’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Joseph Turian’s Groups:

Association for Computational Linguistics, Startup Camp Montreal, RealTime Cancer

•    ASMALLWORLD.net
•    Text Analytics
•    Natural Language Processing
•    Natural Language Processing People
•    Data Mining, Statistics, and Data Visualization
•    Montreal NewTech Meetup Group
•    Linguistic semantics

Joseph Turian’s Honors:

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Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship. 2001–2006 academic years.

8th Place Team Standing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, The Netherlands. April 1999.

Finalist in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. 1996–1997 academic year.

USA Computing Olympiad Team Member. 1996.

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