Adam Faulkner
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Faulkner is a Senior Applied Scientist and NLP researcher with 11 years of experience building production NLP and ML systems across industry and research. He has led generative AI teams at Capital One and now applies large-language-model expertise at Microsoft while teaching advanced NLP in an M.S. AI program. His background spans applied research (IBM postdoc), product-facing NLP features (Grammarly tone detection, automated essay scoring at Amplify and ETS), and shipping LLM-powered applications for internal and external customers. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he has a PhD in Linguistics and a track record of turning linguistic insight into scalable features and models. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex NLP problems into practical solutions and for mentoring the next generation of applied researchers. An interesting thread through his career is consistently moving academic techniques into real-world products that measurably improve user experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Github Skills (16)
stanford-nlp6
text-summarization6
nlp4
natural-language-processing4
style-transfer4
speech-recognition3
pytorch3
machine-translation2
text-classification2
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
transformer2
transformers1
parser1
bert1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
adam-faulkner/SklearnTextClassify
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
adam-faulkner/PyAutoSpell
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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