Senior Security Analyst
2018 - PRESENTGitHub- Oversaw machine learning for abuse and fraud prevention.
Technologies: Machine Learning, PythonLead Data Scientist
2015 - 2017Verizon Labs- Built movie and TV recommendations system.
- Innovated and prototyped numerous TV and movie viewing products and product features.
- Led team of data scientists to build the future of TV.
- Used NLP to analyze television captions to power new viewing experiences.
Technologies: Python, Apple Logic Studio, Spark, ScalaSenior Data Scientist
2014 - 2015EcoHealth Alliance- Developed a machine learning system to detect emerging disease epidemics.
- Built an open-source NLP annotation framework.
- Led a heterogenous team including data science, design, and dev ops.
Technologies: Stanford NLP, Scala, Meteor, PythonComputational Linguist
2008 - 2014Reverb- Built a content-based recommender system for news and web content.
- Developed a data-driven dictionary.
- Built a search with an auto-complete feature.
- Designed a machine for entity and concept recognition.
Technologies: Stanford NLP, Python, Scala
Russell Horton
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Developer in Fairfax, CA, United States
Member since March 14, 2018
Russell builds data-driven products and data-driven teams. He has more than 15 years of experience inventing, rapidly prototyping, and deploying products driven by machine learning and natural language processing. Russell loves consulting on data science projects in the early stages.
Russell is now available for hire
Portfolio
- GitHubMachine Learning, Python
- Verizon LabsPython, Apple Logic Studio, Spark, Scala
- EcoHealth AllianceStanford NLP, Scala, Meteor, Python
Experience
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) 15 years
- Python 13 years
- Machine Learning 12 years
- Scala 10 years
- Stanford NLP 10 years
- NLTK 10 years
- Spark 5 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Prototyping, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Scala, Python
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was an early detection system for emerging pandemics for the Defense Threat Reduction agency, powered by textual analysis of local news.
Employment
Experience
- Linguistic Annotation Frameworkhttps://github.com/ecohealthalliance/annie
Provides a unifying framework for adding various kinds of linguistic annotations (part-of-speech, ngram, concept annotation, etc).
Skills
Other
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), PrototypingLanguages
Python, Scala, JavaScriptFrameworks
SparkLibraries/APIs
NLTK, Stanford NLPTools
Apple Logic StudioPlatforms
MeteorStorage
MongoDB
Education
- Master's Degree in Lingustics2010 - 2012UCSD - San Diego, California
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Lingustics1998 - 2002University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
