Adam Poliak
Full-Stack Data Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Poliak is a Full-Stack Data Scientist and Computer Science faculty member at Bryn Mawr College with 11 years of experience bridging academic NLP research and production ML systems. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and has authored numerous top-tier NLP papers, contributing to practical tools such as a COVID-19 QA chatbot and high-performance social media classifiers used by the FDA to discover thousands of e-cigarette products. Adam teaches large undergraduate courses, mentors student research that led to multiple conference publications, and has a track record of securing research funding and building multidisciplinary teams. He consults for industry and government—most recently at Quantifind—deploying AI for risk intelligence and regulatory science. Known for combining rigorous research on model bias and generation with hands-on engineering, he moves ideas from papers into usable systems. Based in Philadelphia, he blends academic leadership with applied ML that impacts public health and financial risk workflows.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (82)
transfer-learning9
scrapy9
nlp8
textbook8
scraper8
removal8
sentence7
relation7
semantics7
python7
extraction7
glove6
representations6
fasttext6
transformers6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JHU-COVID-QA/scraping-qas
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Scraping answers for frequently asked questions from trusted sources
Contributions:289 commits, 130 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythonscrapytrustedweb-scrapingscraping
azpoliak/hypothesis-only-NLI
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Code and data corresponding to "Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language Inference" (StarSem 2018)
Contributions:73 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
nlpinferencemachine-learningnatural-languagenatural
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