Ian Porada
Research Scientist at Otter.ai
Montreal, Quebec, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Porada is a research scientist specializing in natural language understanding, with a focus on commonsense reasoning, plausibility, systematicity, and lexical semantics. He currently applies his research at Otter.ai, driving advances in AI-assisted transcription and dialogue systems since February 2025, bringing nine years of experience to bear. With prior research stints at Google and Microsoft, Ian has experience translating fundamental NLP insights into real-world products. He holds a PhD in computer science from McGill University and Mila - Quebec AI Institute, complemented by a BS in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. Based in Montreal, he bridges academic rigor with industry impact, contributing to both the AI community and cutting-edge language technologies.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (63)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
language-models10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
convolutional-neural-network10
speech-recognition10
transformer10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ianporada/modeling_event_plausibility
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ianporada/ianporada.github.io
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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