Christopher Scofield

Current

• Principal Scientist at INRIX, Inc.

Past

• Director at Amazon.com
• VP at Nestor, Inc.
• Adjunct Professor at Brown University

Education

• Brown University
• University of Washington

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Christopher Scofield’s Summary

Dr. Scofield joined INRIX, Inc. in October 2008 as Principal Scientist. In this role, Chris is responsible for the technical vision, new research directions, and fundamental technology of INRIX's products. His current work is focused on aggregate behavior in vehicle traffic.

Chris joined Amazon.com in the fall of 1998 to manage the Search group. After building this team from 2 to about a dozen and creating the first service at Amazon.com, Chris moved on to direct, at various times, many of the service groups at Amazon.

Before coming to Amazon, Chris was a Vice President at Nestor, Inc., where he was responsible for their Web personalization product. During his time at Nestor, Chris also served as the Chief Scientist for the DARPA project with Intel to create a Bayes Classifier in silicon.

As a brief respite from Nestor, Chris founded Cyberiad Software. This (small) effort had the grand notion of creating a desktop search application so that one could find almost anything on a Windows 98 desktop. Sadly, at that time, searching the Web was far more interesting to customers and VCs, making Cyberiad's existence somewhat short.

Chris received his Masters and Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University, for his work on computational models of the cat visual system. He was a visiting scholar at Brown's Center for Neural Science from 1990 - 1998. Chris is the author of Neural Networks and Speech Processing, 16 patents (12 at Amazon), and over 30 technical articles. Chris received his Bachelor in Science from the University of Washington.

In his spare time, Chris is an avid sailor, a collector and sometime dealer in 19th century maritime art, a car and motorcycle nut, and the parent of two children.

Christopher Scofield’s Specialties:

Search, distributed systems, machine learning, statistical learning systems

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Christopher Scofield’s Websites:

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Christopher Scofield’s Interests:

Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing

Christopher Scofield’s Honors:

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Neural Network Architectures for OCR on Handprinted Characters," C. L. Scofield and J. C. Chang. First Census OCR Systems Conference, May 1992.

"Multiple Neural Network Topologies Applied to Keyword Spotting," D.P. Morgan, C.L. Scofield and J.E. Adcock. Proceedings of ICASSP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1991.

Neural Networks and Speech Processing, D.P. Morgan and C.L. Scofield. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, March 1991.

"Learning internal representations in the Coulomb energy network," C.L. Scofield. In Proc. IEEE First Int. Conf. on Neural Networks, San Diego, CA, June 1987

"Mean Field Theory of a Neural Network," L.N. Cooper and C.L. Scofield. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. vol. 85, March 1988.

Full bibliography available upon request.

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