)
Justin J. Grace
Machine Learning Scientist / Engineer
Biography 👋
I am a Machine Learning Engineer 👨💻 / Scientist 👨🔬 with over 6 years industry experience working as a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer, and 4 years experience as an academic researcher and scientist. I am a specialist in deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) with a particular interest in dialogue 💬 and question-answering 🎱 systems.
I have worked on various industry applications, highlights include:
- building and deploying a deep neural biomedical question answering service able to query over 30M+ pubmed documents – helping drug discovery scientists discover treatments to rare diseases faster 💊
- building deep neural dialogue and question-answer systems at a peer-to-peer chat technology startup – assisting scalable automated support for peer-to-peer conversations 👨🎓
- deep neural document summarization systems for news media – enabling automated TLDR descriptions of complex news articles 📰
- developing a semantic search engine for company discovery – assisting with discovering novel technology companies for partnership & investment 💡
I have worked across several industries, including…
biotechnology & pharmaceutical 💊 – edtech 👨🎓 – technology & innovation 💡 – interactive entertainment & video games 🎮 – news media 📰 – healthcare & neuroscience 💉 – and human-computer interaction 👨💻
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) / Dialogue systems / question answering
- News media / biology / video games
Education
MSc. in Artificial Intelligence, 2018
University of Edinburgh
PhD. in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, 2010
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour (Not Completed)
MSc. in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
University of Edinburgh
MA. in Psychology & Linguistics (dual hons.), 2008
University of Edinburgh
