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Research Experience
Currently Senior Director of Research at Dataminr, leading R&D for an AI platform for real-time event and risk detection, involving NLP, Computer Vision, HCI, and Data Science.
Formerly Director of Research at Grammarly, where he built and led applied research teams in NYC and Kyiv to develop state-of-the-art writing assistance tools.
Worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Labs in NYC with Amanda Stent and Inderjeet Mani on NLP problems related to discourse and dialogue processing.
Served as Principal Manager of the Core Natural Language group at Nuance Communications under Ron Kaplan, developing NLP components for next-generation intelligent dialogue systems.
Worked at Educational Testing Service (ETS) from 2007–2012 as a Managing Senior Research Scientist, leading automatic essay scoring for GRE and TOEFL, researching grammatical error detection, plagiarism, discourse coherence, etc.
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), collaborating with Dr. Diane Litman on reinforcement learning for dialogue strategies in the ITSPOKE tutoring system.