Adam Wiemerslage
Research Scientist at Kensho Technologies
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Wiemerslage is a Research Scientist specializing in natural language processing with 11 years of industry and academic experience and a PhD from CU Boulder. He blends deep research—publishing at ACL, EMNLP and EACL—with production-minded engineering, having built prototypes and production code for essay scoring and language-learning apps. His background spans defense and commercial settings (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Pearson, Apple) where he applied NLP across speech, translation, assessment, and HRI. Comfortable teaching and mentoring as a former CS instructor and TA, he leverages multilingual linguistics training and hands-on software development to bridge theory and real-world systems. Based in Boulder, he now applies this hybrid research-to-product skillset at Kensho Technologies.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Arts, English- Linguistics, spanish minor., Bachelor of Arts, English- Linguistics, spanish minor. at Illinois State University
Spanish
Github Skills (118)
vocabulary10
sequence10
nlp9
computer-vision9
sequence-to-sequence9
pytorch9
dynet9
natural-language-processing9
python8
deep-learning8
datasets8
annotations8
speech-recognition8
keras8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sigmorphon/2021Task2
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes in 2 months
Adamits/Adamits.github.io
Jul 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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